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Skills that get you cast

• Singing

  Musicals are a large share of the paid theater work in the country.

• Dialects and accents

  A reliable ear widens the parts you can be submitted for.

• Stage combat and movement

  Certified stage combat is a real credential and it appears on casting notices.

• Improvisation

  Comedy rooms and commercial auditions both run on it.

• A good self-tape setup

  Most first auditions are now a video you film at home. Clean sound and even light get you watched to the end.