Director

You sat down with her for two hours. You found the real want. You asked the hard questions and sat with the silence. Then it was time to talk about money and you turned into someone else.

This book is about the sample session from start to finish. Ninety percent of directing is casting, and a sample session is an audition. You run it. You find out what she wants underneath the thing she said first. You ask five questions that tell you whether she's ready, and whether she's ready with you. Then you say the number and let your voice stay the same.

Alongside it there's a theatre. The Old Stick is putting on Hamlet on a space station, and you watch the director make every mistake in a rehearsal before you make it in a session. There's a ghost who has been in the building longer than anybody, a skull, a dog named Horatio, and a god of auditions who loves everyone and can't remember when anything happened.

Near the end you find out she was casting you the entire time.

Five questions. A three-sentence proposal. One real session before you ask for anything. And a glossary that turns theatre words into coaching words, so you never send a Headshot again.

Paperback, printed when you order it and shipped to your door. Printing and mailing take about two to three weeks, so this is slower than Amazon. The ebook comes with it, sent to your email the minute you order, so you can start reading tonight.

If you'd like to try my writing first, ten of my older books are free in my Starter Library.