Open Auditions for all productions took place today in the studio at CCAD Hartlepool. The auditions ran all day and everyone was welcome to try out for roles and perform on camera. Certain actors had given definite signs they would attend and the rest we we're open people would just show up... which very few did. John, Drew, Tori, Steven, Simon and myself were present at the auditions and a grand total of 4 auditions took place! The first to arrive was Megan Thompson who auditioned early on around 9-10am, she did a general audition and was open to playing any of the required roles for our productions and was very excited and energetic about the possibility of working with us. Glenn was impressed with audition and cast her as Arienne in his Maniaframe production. The auditions slowed down after Megan's audition and struggled to find actors to turn up, eventually fellow student Dan Whalen auditioned for the role of Reggie Reynolds the radio host in John's Urban Legends production. Dan had an understanding of the character and what we we're going for and pulled off a great audition for the role so much that we had him under consideration to play the character.
Our tutor Mike Boyle also auditioned to boost up the numbers and was given part of the script from Glenn's production and auditioned for one of the clowns that would appear in it. Mike NAILED IT of course as he is a talented and experienced actor with an ability to take on any role :). Eventually later on another actor turned up for an audition, George Collins or working actor auditioned for the role of Reggie Reynolds and absolutely blew everyone away. He was given multiple scripts to work with and to get to the learn the character better but I think Drew and John has already agreed by this point that he was perfect for the part. George was cast as Reggie Reynolds.
Overall I wouldn't say the open auditions were a clear success but we did gain two new actors from it who are pivotal to the cast and productions so it was still helpful even if the turn out wasn't how we may have expected it to be. I think all the producers know that there are more ways now that the could advertise the auditions and to maybe gain more definite auditions for the day so less time is wasted waiting.
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