How to Find Casting Calls

First, I see tons of actors posting that they are looking for casting calls. Stop doing that. It doesn’t work and immediately labels you as an amateur. If it did work, I would be shocked. Finding casting calls takes work and sifting through a lot of BS sometimes.

• Actor’s Access: This is where I find most of my casting calls and where I get most of my auditions. There is a subscription cost and there’s a cost to post more than two headshots and a cost to post videos like your reel. I do not recommend you join Actor’s Access if you don’t have professional headshots.
• Backstage: Backstage is where I first started getting auditions. It’s great for a beginning actor or an actor without professional headshots. There is a subscription cost but if you sign up through a member’s link, it’s only 75 dollars a year instead of the 100-200 it usually is.
• Casting Networks: I only have Casting Network because I am required to have it by my agent. It’s mostly commercial work and it’s very costly.
• Facebook groups: Casting calls are posted on Facebook groups all the time. In order to see them, you have to join the group and have ‘all notifications’ turned on so you don’t miss them. I joined any and all Facebook groups in the Atlanta area that had anything to do with casting, acting, and film production.
• Word of Mouth: Networking is valuable and one of the benefits is that I have a group of actors that send me casting calls all the time.

I have a prewritten email with an introduction and all my links, including:

• link to me reel on Youtube
• link to my IMDb
• link to my Instagram

It saves me time and all I have to do is attach my resume and headshots and send it.

There are other sites and ways to find casting calls, but these are the ways I get most of my auditions.