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The Anatomy of an Audition
Friday, 30 October 2009

The following was originally published on Founding Director Don Hall's personal blog An Angry White Guy in Chicago.

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What the Hell Was He Thinking?

The following is as close an approximation of the process I personally like best to audition people for a show (scripted.)  It certainly has its flaws and I'd much prefer to just do it the way The Group Theatre did in the thirties - rent a resort in the woods for the summer and workshop the plays until a cast emerged but WNEP doesn't have the dough and no actors I know have the time or ability to simply quit their day jobs for two months in the summer.  So, this is the best I have.

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