How To Become A Casting Director

How do you become a casting director?

The best way to become a casting director is to try and get into the profession via writing to casting directors and seeing if anyone's looking for an assistant, or maybe even a theatrical agent, and work for them. Working in a production company, it's easy for me to sit here and say that, probably quite difficult to do. But it is possible. In the interim period do exactly what casting directors do. And that's watch the telly and focus in on who the actors are. Try and go to the theater. It doesn't have to be big West End shows, it could be pub theaters, it could be drama schools, whatever you can do to try and focus on new talent. That's a big plus. If you know up and coming young people it's a very big help. But really, write 'round, and eventually someone will be looking for an assistant.