Has anyone have any experience with holding auditions or casting? How would you go about it? What is the exact setup?

I'm just going through that myself now and let me tell ya - it's not as easy as it sounds. I put out a casting call on mandy.com and then from that I got quite a few responses. From there, I responded and then went about arranging a place to hold the auditions.

I found a little acting studio that was willing to let me use it for $30/hr with a cap at $200/day which is really good. (All CDN funds).

Now I'm in the process of sending out emails with directions and locations, so I can better get an idea of how many people will be coming out.

I have it so that they include the role they're auditioning for in the email so that I can sort them out in folders. Then I had my writer come up with excerpts for each character so that I can send it to the people a few days before coming out.

I plan to have a camera recording the auditions with a reader off to the side reading the lines so that they can get into it a little more.

Thats about all I can tell you for now - I'll post my results after the auditions.

-Kegan

you all are braver then I am!

luckily, I have a friend who is deep, deep in the theater world, and he keeps an eye out for good actors/actresses for me.