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- Review casting policy. Make sure they're aware that the audition pool could be small.
- Review time maximums (15 hours per week)
- Make sure the director understands that casting an actor with a lot of conflicts in a lead role makes for stressful rehearsal scheduling
- Performance Space Constraints
- Other Policies
- Ensemble DEI Policy (on website under Administrivia)
- Make sure the director has signed a Director Contract (should be done around director choice/play choice)
Setting Up Auditions
- Schedule auditions with the director, SM, and Ensemble.
- Ask the director to provide some monologues, or pull from ones collected from members (the officers can pass this along from other productions).
- Finalize audition forms and make sure all dates/requirements are correct.
- Ensure that a readthrough has been scheduled, and that the same room can be used for a prod meeting, if necessary
- Set up the online audition form as soon as possible. See webmaster for details.
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