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About the Lab
This Is Not a Traditional Acting Class
What We Are
The Audition Lab is a professional, audition-focused lab. We work exclusively with real, current or recent audition material: sides, breakdowns, character descriptions, and project context - the same materials you receive from your representatives.
What We're Not
We are not an acting technique class. We don’t teach Method, Meisner, or any particular school of performance. We assume you already have training and are working or near-working. The Lab is about audition literacy — understanding how to interpret breakdowns and sides, recognizing the clues embedded in the audition materials, making effective choices under pressure, and closing the feedback gap that exists in professional audition life.
How It Works
Actors perform using an off-stage reader — never a scene partner. This mirrors actual audition conditions where you're opposite a casting director, reader, or camera operator, not another actor making performance choices. Afterward, performers receive direct feedback and often run the scene again with adjustments. Questions and brief discussion from the room are part of the process. Audition materials — sides, breakdowns, and project context — are sometimes shared with the room and discussed. Performers quickly learn whether moments land with an audience. Comedy scenes especially benefit from real audience feedback.
Feedback Gap
Actors rarely receive feedback on their auditions. You submit a tape or leave the room and hear nothing — or you book without ever knowing what worked. The Lab exists to provide that missing feedback, whether you're preparing for an upcoming audition or recalibrating after one you've already completed.
Audition Literacy
By working with real, current material, participants naturally develop deeper awareness of the audition landscape — the kinds of projects actively casting, how audition materials translate into expectations, and what the market is looking for at any given moment. This isn't industry gossip or comparison. It's contextual awareness that makes you a more informed, effective auditioner.
Confidentiality
Productions often maintain their audition materials as confidential and restrict their public distribution. For that reason, there are no cameras in the Lab and participants agree to keep the sessions and materials confidential. Filming or recording on phones or other devices is not permitted. This ensures that actors can work freely on material in progress, knowing that what happens in the Lab remains private.
Acting Coach & Casting Director
Casting projects for
Warner Bros. • Universal • ABC • MTV
Decades spent working on film & television auditions with actors at every level — in the casting room and the taping room.
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