They are the hardest thing you’ll ever have to do in your career.

In homeopathy, one treats the main symptom first.

Do the same when you prep for auditions.

An actress with lots of theatre experience comes to me with a TV audition and says …

While auditioning you can keep going even if you drop lines.

Especially when you’re in it.

The struggle in the moment to find words to make your point can be gold. Not sure what to say? – speak your inner monologue. That keeps …

One way to give you confidence in an audition is to block it when you prep.

That includes how you’re sitting or standing. Can you play the scene from how you’re standing? Are you comfortable? Usually, the way you normally stand is the best way to stand.

That’s your physical support: how you’re sitting or standing. Try and get …

You’ve done the first audition and the call-back and now they’ve asked you to come in for a chemistry read.

Does the term divert you?

So many terms in the movie business need …

They don’t know what they want. That’s the TV rule.

Episodic television is very much about making it up as they go along. Searching, searching for what works under great time and money pressure.

The character description in the breakdowns are merely the …

Do what you did in your first audition. Wear the same clothes.

Try not to over-work or over-think prior to the callback. You want to do well, but observe what diverts you from - and what keeps - the magic that you …

This is the most difficult place.

You must take it up for solution. Think about it and develop tactics that can become your habits, so before your audition you’re in …

That’s what they called it in the old days. 

Maybe they still do.

An on-camera role in a commercial with lots of dialogue – that’s wall-to-wall dialogue.  Lots usually means 6 to 8 lines, which, compared to a …

Don’t forget that casting directors have seen everything.

Enter the casting room how it best suits you - in character, or not.

Maybe you work best always in character. Then after the audition is finished you break out of …

‘If only the reader would play the scene with me I’d do better auditions!’

A reader is there to facilitate the audition. They aren’t there to play the scene with …

You enter the audition room and are greeted by the person behind the camera saying, ‘Stand on the mark.’  

Try not to get diverted and take that ...

Going to an audition without doubt or hesitation is good.

However, before you go, it’s not bad to ask yourself: ‘Do I want to go to this audition?’. You should consider both ‘yes’ and ‘no’ as possible answers.

Looking at the facts might help you …

What you wear to an audition is important.

The acting is more important.

Try not to second guess yourself or compare what you wore to what …

Seeing a black wall at the end of your audition is deadly. 

It’s best if your auditions are part of your ongoing work and life. With none of them ever being the be all or end all. 

The continuity …

Learning technical dialogue can be difficult.

Legal, medical, military, scientific.

Try separating it from the playing part of the scene. Usually most of the scene is playable – then there’s the technical language, so you could ...