Difference between Urgent Castings and Standard Applications

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1) Standard Application

Our main group of artistes are registered in one of our eight regional online casting books:

Artistes are registered for a 12 month period
Artistes are put forward for all suitable jobs in your area, you get more job offers by being in a regional book
All bookers in the office will see you and consider you
Artistes have access to a free online organiser, to see their bookings and look at payslips
Your photos appear on our website for productions to browse

Make sure you apply for the book in the area that you live in.

Find out more about our 8 regions here:
Or you can apply here:


2) Urgent casting applications
:

Artistes apply for one particular project
Very specific casting brief of what we are looking for right now that we don't currently have on our main books
Time-specific for a short period of time, say one month
Only the one booker looking after that job will consider you
Once approved, you will be registered for 12 months and may be offered work on different productions

You can find a list of all Urgent castings here:

  • If you want to continually work you need to apply as a standard artiste rather than an urgent casting artiste.

  • If you have applied for an urgent casting in the past you are more than welcome to apply as a standard artiste here:

  • If you are registered in one of our regional books, you shouldn't apply for any urgent castings as you will already be considered.

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