How to Prepare for an Audition—from Start to Finish
A practical system for creating alive, watchable auditions under real-world time pressure
👋 Hey, I’m Christine. I’m an award-winning actress, industry consultant, and entertainment insider with decades of experience in global film, TV, and theater. My work has been featured by major networks like HBO, Disney, and Ubisoft, and I’ve built a career helping actors gain visibility, land roles, and position themselves for long-term success.
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Before We Begin: Why This Is Different
I want to be very clear about something before we start.
What I’m about to walk you through is not a “tips and tricks” article. It’s not a checklist you skim and forget.
This comes from years of pattern recognition, high-level coaching, working actors, sitting in real rooms, watching what actually gets callbacks and what quietly doesn’t. It’s the result of studying behavior, not theory. Human behavior. Industry behavior. Casting behavior.
Most actors are not losing auditions because they’re untalented. They’re losing because their auditions are technically correct and emotionally dead. Clean, clear, polite, and forgettable.
Callbacks don’t come from perfection. They come from life.
And life lives in two places:
Being and Doing.
If you understand those two things deeply—and know how to apply them under time pressure—you immediately separate yourself from most of the field.
This is exactly how I prepare for auditions, from start to finish. Not every audition looks the same. The character, the material, and the time I have always dictate the approach. But the thinking underneath it never changes.