How to Nail Your First Audition
Build confidence, find great auditions, and become a full-time actor.
Build confidence, find great auditions, and become a full-time actor.
Build confidence, find great auditions, and become a full-time actor.
Auditions are hard to find...
... and even if you do find one, a bad audition can wreck your confidence for good.
We’ve felt that sting of rejection, and seen our friends abandon their dream because of it.
With the steps laid out in this guide, provided by full-time actors and comedians, you can build confidence, find great auditions, and become a fulfilled, growing, working actor.
Be prepared
The guide has five parts broken into easy steps to help you:
Build your skills and actor's resume before the audition
Find auditions you're passionate about
Memorize your perfect monologue
Be ready for The Big Day
Make a great impression at every audition
Skip years of trial-and-error and start your acting career ahead of the pack.
Feel confident
The highs and lows of auditions are crazy to navigate alone... but we're here to help.
Feel ready and EXCITED before your audition (not just nervous)
Deal with the unexpected at the audition without losing your cool
Recover your energy post-audition and celebrate your career!
Learn what you need to have the confidence of someone ten years more experienced.
Learn what the industry expects
There are things that every working actor knows... and until now, those "secrets" were kept behind closed doors or massive paywalls.
The How to Nail Your First Audition guide is only $10, and has the detailed industry knowledge you won't get in an acting class. Things like:
How to make a good first impression on a director
What's the difference between community theater and union theater jobs?
What to bring to your audition (like an extra shirt to avoid the Tragedy of Spills)
Much, much more!
Each simple step is broken down into action you can take, so that you bring that know-how into your first audition, and do your absolute best with a level of confidence usually reserved for those with decades of experience.
Read the Guide
Read through the Guide once to upgrade your know-how and learn what industry insiders already know.
Follow the Steps
The guide breaks down, in easy steps, how to build your confidence, find an audition, and absolutely nail it.
Repeat
Return to the guide, find more auditions, and watch your acting career take off!
Co-authored by professional actors and comedians
Juan Sebastian Cruz is thrilled to be collaborating with MakeGood Creative Network. He studied theater at Rice University and graduated with a BA in Visual and Dramatic Arts in 2016.
He emerged onto the professional scene in Houston in 2017 and has since enjoyed a career having worked with theaters such as the Alley Theatre, Stages Repertory Theatre, Theater Under The Stars, 4th Wall Theatre Company, and Catastrophic Theatre.
Alongside being a professional stage actor he is also active as a musician and circus artist. He really takes pride in his multi-disciplinary approach to life because there is just so much stuff to do and try, and he believes you shouldn't limit your curiosity!
