Actor Growth

There was this posting I read today about a couple of casting director workshops here in the Vancouver area. The interesting thing was that the workshops were being conducted by the same institution and for the most part the offerings seemed the same except each workshop would be conducted by a different casting director.

The thing that stood out was the difference in fees. One of them was almost 50% as much as the other one which leads me to believe that they are capitalizing on a more well known casting director. At the same time, that made me wonder if the other person doesn’t feel a bit strange where their workshop session is valued so much lower.

This reminds me of the criticism that many have about casting director workshops too where many actors essentially treat them as a paid audition. I would have to say that the fees in this example kind of resembles that notion too. For the first ever casting director workshop I went to, I personally treated it as a way to learn and not an audition.

But I suppose it can be tempting to just think that paying big dollars to meet these people is the easy way to get seen and discovered for roles.