This video is all about typecasting. Do you know your typecast? Is not knowing your typecast holding you back? Are you stuck in a specific typecast? If you want to understand how to audition for roles that suit your casting type check out the video below as we discuss the pros and cons to type casting, why it’s important to understand for yourself and how to apply it to your auditions.

Knowing your casting type is important in musical theater productions because it allows you to better serve casting directors and the audience. By knowing your type, you can play those roles perfectly since they naturally suit you, and you can perform them better than any other actor - you’re the best possible match for that character type. Understanding your casting types mean that you can increase your changes of getting cast in a production and improve your audition.

Common casting types include:

• Adult actors who can appear as younger or older

• Ensemble members who fill scenes and dance numbers, and serve as the chorus in musical numbers

• Mom, lawyer, cop, spy, teen, criminal

• Quirky, serious, intellectual, sexy, loud, innocent

Some common mistakes actors make when auditioning for shows include:

• Being unfamiliar with the show or having a general sense of the theme of the show

• Not understanding the character they’re auditioning for

• Not coming in prepared to the audition

• Assuming that if they set their age range on online casting platforms from 0 to 99 years old, it will give them the best possible chance of getting cast

• Not preparing ahead of time (which is different than being prepared FOR the audition)