Inside Tips From Casting: Casting Director Gaby Hart On What You Need To Ace An Audition

Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine
Published in
24 min readFeb 27, 2024

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Gaby Whyte Hart. Photo credit: Claire Jonas Photography

…Actors think if they email casting directors a lot, they are annoying. If they badger them on social media with DMs, they’re annoying. They don’t want to be annoying. They don’t want to upset anyone. It is not the case. If someone is consistently emailing, and I’ve got a very good story about this, if someone is consistently emailing a casting director, we take note of it.

One of the most important things, and I say this to every actor I work with, is that if you’re going to email so much, the subject line is what’s going to grab us. Say something interesting. Do not say “20-year-old English actress, blonde.” We get thousands of those. So why would we necessarily look at yours over another 20-year-old English girl with blonde hair?

Anything interesting in the title will…

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Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine

A “Positive” Influencer, Founder & Editor of Authority Magazine, CEO of Thought Leader Incubator