About this Book:

This book isn't about methods. It's not another how-to guide. Winning Auditions: 101 Strategies for Actors is a revelation: a shared collection of actors' trade secrets – tricks of the trade divulged by professionals in an experimental workshop that lasted nearly a year.

You will discover what actually sells you more than talent. You will find out how powerful body language can be, and even how influential colour is in the audition room. You will learn what keeps a photo captivating and really holds the viewer's attention, even in a stack of headshots on a casting director's desk and what keeps a casting director on your side. In short, you will have 101 innovative ways to get what you have always wanted: more of the parts that you deserve.

What people say:

"Winning Auditions: 101 Strategies for Actors by actor, casting director, and theatrical producer Mark Brandon is a compact and highly portable compilation of 101 succinct lessons in preparation, presentation, and performance for aspiring actors. Represented are key insights gleaned over many years in the business from such accomplished actors as Sir John Gielgud, Harrison Ford, Jessica Lange, Richard Dreyfus, Russell Crowe, Sharon Stone, and John Travolta. Winning Auditions is an invaluable addition to any high school, college, university, or community theatre reference collection, and MUST reading for aspiring actors seeking work on the Broadway state, in Hollywood films, the dinner theatre circuit, on radio or in television." — Mid-West Book Review

"Reading Winning Auditions is like striking gold. There's scarcely an actor alive who won't come away from it without becoming greatly enriched." — Sally Kirkland, award-winning actress, Golden Globe recipient: Anna

"Any actor who reads Mark Brandon's wonderful Winning Auditions will have a huge head start on the competition. Brandon's insights are born of common sense and years of experience. I wish I'd had it when I was starting out." — Stephen Collins, Broadway, film, and award-winning TV actor: 7th Heaven

"Winning Auditions is a fun, easy read and so incredibly full of worthwhile advice, it should be required reading for every acting school in the country. Indeed, it may one day well be." — John Savage, veteran actor of stage, TV, and film: The Deer Hunter

“It's a bible, it's a friend, it's a life preserver. However you look at it, Mark Brandon's Winning Auditions is undoubtedly the hands-on, inside track to success.” — Jeremiah Comey, Hollywood film coach, author: The Art of Film Acting

About the Author:

Mark Brandon has worked in the Canadian and American film industry as an actor, writer and part-time teacher. Born in Long Beach, California, he spent a decade in Los Angeles before moving to Vancouver. Best known for roles in Riverdale, The Flash, and Supernatural, he has also cast commercials and industrial films.