![]() ![]() I’m on the clock 24/7, so I look anywhere I can find somebody who, to me, has that kind of charisma. I’ve been known to do that thing of asking waiters if they are actors. READ: 11 Tips for Dealing With Auditions During Pilot SeasonĪnywhere. It has leveled the playing field in a beautiful way. They don’t dismiss New York at all because everything is so global now. I might know how phenomenal somebody is, so I become a champion for them. I might know somebody’s talent from an Off-Broadway show that I saw them do or another project that somebody who’s not physically here didn’t see them do. I am personally responsible for the East Coast actors, and they’re not going to be in the room as much with a producer because they’re usually 3,000 miles away. Things shoot somewhere else, anyway-Atlanta, Canada, wherever. I think everybody understands that there’s a great pool of actors in New York and L.A., so if something shoots in New York, they also look at L.A. How do East Coast actors factor into the bigger casting process? It really gives the actor an opportunity to be considered for a role, so I’m a big fan of it, but I would so much rather be able to play in the room and try to have that collaboration with the actor so they can leave with the best audition that they could have gotten that day. I like to have actors in the room, but if I can’t because of timing, self-taping has become a great tool. We have two tape rooms going at once, because we would never see the number of actors that we want to see otherwise. We are easily working six days a week, eight hours a day. I do everything else that being an executive entails, but here we actually look for actors and bring them into the room, so we function as both.ĭuring pilot season, what are you doing on a daily basis? In L.A., my counterparts oversee a show and are in charge of hiring the freelance CD. During pilot season, we’re probably doing 15–20 shows at once, whereas the rest of the year it’s maybe two projects at a time. We do ABC Network and Studio pilots, new roles on existing shows, and recurring roles if they’re big and juicy. We see at least 5,000 auditions per year. I oversee all East Coast casting for ABC Network and ABC Studios. We are both casting director and executive. Here, she shares what she thinks actors should know for pilot season 2019.īeing an executive at a network in New York is not the same as in Los Angeles. Despite her executive role, she prides herself on working from the ground up, getting in the room with auditioning actors and constantly being on the hunt for the Next Big Thing. As executive director of casting for ABC Entertainment Group, Phillips oversees the casting process out of New York City and works with her West Coast team to find the right actors for the network’s shows. If you’re an East Coast actor and you’re up for an ABC series, there’s a good chance you’ll be auditioning for Marci Phillips-especially during the busiest time of year: pilot season.
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