3 PA's, a musician and I

Today, Baylea, Julia and I held auditions for our cast.

First up was Emily auditioning for Olivia. I read along with her as Dan for the (tentatively dubbed) 'cheesy scene'. In which Dan and Olivia express their new found love for each other. I was slightly embarrassed and awkward but Emily was really professional, effortlessly acting out this lovey-dovey scene without a cringe. With her as our Olivia maybe we should re-name it the not so cheesy scene.

After about an hour and no sign of any more auditionees, I took it upon myself to find some actors from the mass of students in the refectory. My first find was Joe, who stands out as a Greg potential with a bright green Mohawk (definitely not pushover Dan). Joe had said he had done a bit of acting before but is a Commercial Music student. His audition was fair, especially for someone who had not seen the script and had little idea of the character.

The next find of the day was Hannah, who I work with, I approached primarily to ask if she knew anyone we could audition for the part of Dan. We ended up having her as our Rosie which is a very small role, but an important one in establishing Dan's character.

Finally after a few hours of no shows Andy turned up. It wasn't until he was leaving when we noticed him. I ran up to him and asked whether he was a PA or Drama student and what his name was, not knowing whether it was him. He wanted to audition for the part of Greg but we asked him if he minded going for Dan (it was getting late and we were all feeling we had to find a Dan). So he read the office scene with me as Greg and it was really good. He seemed like a really nice guy and like he would be able to add something to the character. As a third year PA student he has a bit more experience at this sort of ting than the rest of us.


As cringe as it is (for me) here is a video of the (hopefully) final cast auditions.

The final part of Olivia's boyfriend is... drum roll... ME. I have offered my services as the budding young actor I am.

If I was to do the casting again I would have probably held auditions a week ago - we can’t afford to be picky at this stage. I am happy with our cast but there’s always room for improvement (excuse the cliché). I would of also set up a more formal audition process, a big problem was the fact we'd arranged to meet the potential actors in Morton and as it is a big place with a few exits some actors may of turned up and we may of missed them.