Actor Growth

One discussion that was brought up during the workshop was the question on whether or not joining a larger agency gives an actor an advantage over joining an agency that has a very small roster. Usually from an actor’s point of the thought is that the large agencies get most of the attention from casting directors and hence people who are represented by them get more opportunities.

Therefore, the assumption as well is if the agency that you joined has a very small roster, or often referred to as boutique agencies, then most likely you are being overlooked for a lot of potential roles as the agent doesn’t have as much power/influence.

For the most part, what was told to us is that generally speaking many casting directors could care less who your agent is as they mainly care about the talent. The message was that casting directors would be doing themselves a huge disservice if they only limited themselves to auditioning actors from specific agencies only.

In fact, one thing that was mentioned is that casting directors sometimes like to find new and promising talent as that way they can have bragging rights that they discovered them first in a way. Was useful information I thought as this is definitely a question that crossed my mind.