A Good Audition

You find out the night before that you have an audition at 11am the next morning.

You stay up late at night learning the scenes and dissecting it and making choices

You call around at 7pm at night (after finding out about the audition) to find an acting coach who is available at 8am the next morning

You wake up at 5am the next morning to drive far away to pay a ridiculous amount of money to have a guy coach you for half an hour

You then head over to your managers office to show him the scene and get his stamp of approval

You head to the studio (while reciting the lines for the 100th time in your car) and find street parking and walk to the pedestrian entrance

You show them your ID and hope that you don't get lost in the lot as they explain directions

You sit across from the CD's office, waiting and overhearing the CDs talk about you like you're just another name, another number, another "reader".

Then you finally go in and audition. You know these people have heard the same lines done hundreds of times before by many different girls. They no longer laugh at the funny parts. They have the same glassy, stoic look throughout your audition.

Then it finally ends and you look at them for some kind of reaction.

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Usually the reaction is just a general "Great job, thank you and goodbye".

But today, the CD took off her glasses, looked at me and said in a very genuine way "Amazing job. That was fantastic."

I left their office absolutely ecstatic. I call my manager to tell him how it went, and he told me to not care what they say, because often they'll just say things to be nice in the audition room. We hang up and I walk to my car.

He calls back 5 minutes later. The CDs just called him and told him I was fantastic. That they were going to show the tape to network executives and hopefully get me in for a producer's session.

I'm thrilled. There are many steps before a booking (especially for a bigger role) but for the first step at least, I rocked it.

And that made all of this work worth it.