How Casting Directors Find and Contact You

Not every role is posted as a casting call. Casting directors regularly search enCAST for actors who fit a role and contact them directly to ask if they are interested. Some of the best opportunities arrive this way, before a casting is ever published. This page explains how to make sure they can find you and reach you.

Make sure you can be found #

Casting directors search by age, gender, location, languages and look. You will only appear in their results if your settings allow it, so check these on your profile:

• Profile visibility set to everyone, so your profile page can be viewed.
• Visible in search set to yes, so you appear when casting directors search for actors.

Make sure you can be contacted #

Finding you is only half the job: the casting director then needs to be able to message you.

• Who can message you set to all users. Every sender on enCAST has a verified email address, and stricter settings can silently cut you off from casting directors who are new to the site.
• Reply promptly. Casting directors work to tight deadlines. A fast reply, even to say no, keeps you on their list for the next role.

Give them a reason to pick you #

When a casting director searches, they see many profiles at once and click the ones that look complete and professional. Make sure yours is one of them:

• Photos. Recent, well lit headshots that look like you do today.
• Showreel and CV. These are usually the first things a casting director opens.
• Voice reels. An MP3 in each language you can act in, so your languages are demonstrated, not just listed.
• Details. Playing ages, languages, height, build, eye and hair colour: these are exactly the fields casting directors search on, so leaving them empty means missing searches you should appear in.
• Bio. A short, professional bio that says who you are and what you have done.

Keep everything up to date. A profile that looks abandoned suggests an actor who will not reply.

See also: Where can I find castings for my Age, Gender, Location, etc? and Casting alerts, what they are and how to use them.