Resources (Click-able Links)

  1. Actors Equity Association
    • For all actors equity (aka union) dance, singing, and acting auditions, organized based on your geographic location in the country.
  2. Backstage
    • Newspaper (and classifieds) to some of today's most recognizable stars, including Sandra Bullock, that creepy guy who headed the Others on Lost, and Scarlet Johansson. News paper articles to support and educate young performers. Shows auditions weekly in Los Angeles and New York.
  3. Playbill
    • Your source for all things NYC theater scene, including jobs in performing, directing, stage managing, heck, even ushering if you want it!
  4. Answers 4 Dancers
    • Consummate source of information for every dance-related audition (from musical theater, to musical artist tours, to dance companies, to cruise ships). Helpful, easy to use, enormous jobs calendar that organizes opportunities by date and uses color to identify different locations (e.g. Green audition title means it's in New York).
  5. Audition Update
    • Audition Blog that people use to keep each other updated on helpful tidbits like whether a casting company will be seeing non equity.  Dave Clemmons, one of the biggest non equity casting companies, regularly posts helpful information to clarify the audition process for dancers/singers/actors from their behind-the-table casting perspective.
  6. Stage Door Access
    • Additional information about all things Broadway (including interviews with Broadway stars, musical reviews, etc.)
  7. Actor's Access
    • Want to be an extra to get your foot in the door for film and television acting? Make an account on this website and submit your info for literally everything you see. The saying goes that it takes 100 "no's" before you get that coveted "yes"
  8. New York City MAP (So useful!)
    • Don't be late because you get lost! The MTA also gives out business card-sized subway maps for those of us without smart phones, Ipads, or Ipod touches.