Episodic Season in Full Swing

How to Make the Most of Episodic Season:

First of all, watch EVERYTHING on television. I watch at least one episode of every single show on television that is casting in the fall season, and keep one additional episode stored on my DVR. (Tones in shows can change from pilot to episode 3 or 4, always valuable to have a later episode, especially with new shows)

Theoretically you could wait until you have an audition to go find the show and watch it, but there are two problems with this:

1. You get the audition on Monday you have to be there Monday afternoon. Do you really want to spend your time scrambling to sign up for 30 days on Hulu because the show isn't available on Netflix or On Demand and there's only clips available on the website, or, wait, maybe if I go to YouTube then I can- no, just have one on your TV.

2. If you watch one episode of every show on TV when they come out at the beginning of the fall season, then you know which casting directors to target for workshops, because you can pretty quickly figure out, I fit on this show or I don't.

Do you have an episode re-airing? Or something new that you just booked? As the season gets busier and busier, and scripts start coming later and later CD's turn more and more to their files, it's a perfect time for a targeted mailing.

Try to stay in town over the major holidays, so many people leave town, that even if you weren't top of their list for an appointment for a role, if you're in town you just might get in the room, seems silly, but it totally works!

Be in class. Have a coach. As the turnovers get shorter and shorter, because scripts are later and later you don't have a lot of time to prep, sometimes they may be day of. Have a class that you are taking so you are fresh and prepped and tuned up, and have a coach lined up for those last minute emergencies in your back pocket that you can call at a moment's notice. (And have a back-up in case they're busy) Find it ahead of time, you don't want to spend your audition prep time, looking for someone who can help you.

Further - have someone lined up that you can go and put something on tape with, again so you don't have to spend your audition prep time calling around finding someone who can squeeze you in. (And have a back-up in case they're busy.)

Good luck!