Actor's Tips "How to Treat Your Agent"
HOW TO TREAT YOUR AGENT
Always be prepared when an agent calls you for a Go-See, Audition, Interview or Booking.
Here are a few tips to making your working relationship with your agent a good one.
Have at least two ways to contact you. These are good choices to use, a cell phone, beeper, service and a working home machine. Know how to check into you machine, and check into your machine and services at least 4 times a day. Pay all your bills so everything is working.
Have a pen and paper handy. Have an extra pen handy just in case your first pen runs out of ink.
If your agent leaves you a message, call back immediately! It could be a matter of a booking or at least a potential booking. Also keep in mind, some agents may call 10 actors for 5 audition slots. The first 5 that call back get the audition. Point made.
Make sure you write the information down, and then repeat back the information that the agent gives you. This will confirm all the information. And always have a subway and street map with you.
Make sure you have your date book or Blackberry with you. Check the dates that they ask you about. There is nothing more annoying then a model or actors saying they are available for something and then call back and say they are not.
If you are multi listed, know who represents you.
Make sure you sign in the correct agent at a Go-See or Audition. You should sign in the one who called you first and gave you all the information. If you accept the casting and take the information down and then sign in another agent you are just causing problems. You may end up paying two commissions if you book the job, or loose both agents.
Dress appropriately for a casting. You’ll have a better chance of getting the job. If an agent does not give you information about the dress and you are questioning it. Ask them what to wear. That is part of their job.
DO NOT BE LATE! Do not be late for a Casting, an appointment with your agent or a job. Always take into account late trains, traffic jams and that unexpected buffalo stampede down Park Avenue. If you are going to be late for an appointment with your agent, call them. If they can’t see you later, don’t get upset. Ask them if you could reschedule. If you are going to be late for a casting, do not call the Casting Director direct. Get your agent to call for you. Never be late for a booking!
Always be prepared when an agent calls you for a Go-See, Audition, Interview or Booking.
Here are a few tips to making your working relationship with your agent a good one.
Have at least two ways to contact you. These are good choices to use, a cell phone, beeper, service and a working home machine. Know how to check into you machine, and check into your machine and services at least 4 times a day. Pay all your bills so everything is working.
Have a pen and paper handy. Have an extra pen handy just in case your first pen runs out of ink.
If your agent leaves you a message, call back immediately! It could be a matter of a booking or at least a potential booking. Also keep in mind, some agents may call 10 actors for 5 audition slots. The first 5 that call back get the audition. Point made.
Make sure you write the information down, and then repeat back the information that the agent gives you. This will confirm all the information. And always have a subway and street map with you.
Make sure you have your date book or Blackberry with you. Check the dates that they ask you about. There is nothing more annoying then a model or actors saying they are available for something and then call back and say they are not.
If you are multi listed, know who represents you.
Make sure you sign in the correct agent at a Go-See or Audition. You should sign in the one who called you first and gave you all the information. If you accept the casting and take the information down and then sign in another agent you are just causing problems. You may end up paying two commissions if you book the job, or loose both agents.
Dress appropriately for a casting. You’ll have a better chance of getting the job. If an agent does not give you information about the dress and you are questioning it. Ask them what to wear. That is part of their job.
DO NOT BE LATE! Do not be late for a Casting, an appointment with your agent or a job. Always take into account late trains, traffic jams and that unexpected buffalo stampede down Park Avenue. If you are going to be late for an appointment with your agent, call them. If they can’t see you later, don’t get upset. Ask them if you could reschedule. If you are going to be late for a casting, do not call the Casting Director direct. Get your agent to call for you. Never be late for a booking!
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