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Useful ways of finding work in the industry...

As we are often told, we are entering an 'overcrowded profession', but how do we go about finding the work (not using an agent)?

• Talking to friends and teachers in the industry and finding out how they obtained thier jobs.
• 'The Stage' is the obvious one that everyone knows about but is highly useful as has adverts for open calls from West End Musicals to Disneyland.
• Literature: I have many brilliant books on Musical Theatre auditions that inform where to find out about auditions and how to prepare for them.
• http://www.spotlight.com/ Via 'Spotlight Link', performers can see breakdown's for castings and electronically send forth thier Spotlight Cv's.
• http://www.castweb.co.uk/ Castweb is a site that you need to subscribe to, for one month it will cost you £17.95 and for a year £139.95. Castings are then emailed straight into your inbox for you to sift through and find what is apprpriate.
• http://www.castingcallpro.com/ is an online directory which enables you to create your own profile and upload your CV and headshot and is free.
• http://www.crimsonuk.com/ : Advance Production news is a weekly bulletin of castings in television, tv and film but again you have to pay an annual fee.
• http://www.castingnetwork.co.uk/ Casting network is an agency for supporting artists. Register and your details are included in a directory for casting agents to o through. (At the moment not looking for women between the ages of 16-30 with long hair). Therefore before subscribing to a directory check that they do not already have lots of your type on thier books.
• I was once told by an actor that her preference of finding jobs was to join PCR. It is a newsletter that is delivered every monday either by post or online. It concerns future castings as well as up to date castings. To access all the information on castings you need to subscribe to become a member. http://www.pcrnewsletter.com/
• FACEBOOK, there are so many groups which you can now join which load current castings for example: 'Constant Casting' (although you need to subscribe on thier website), 'Jayne Collins Casting' , 'the castingscene.com, 'facebook actors registry' etc

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