SAG-AFTRA Deal Allows More Time To Prepare For Self-Tape Auditions, Fewer Pages To Read & Simpler Tech Requirements
deadline.comProducers must give actors at least 48 hours to prepare a self-tape — longer if it’s before a weekend – and not assign more than eight pages to read for the first audition, according to a summary of SAG-AFTRA’s potential three-year contract.
Producers must also provide opportunities for actors to interview virtually or in person if they don’t want to do a self-tape, but it’s only on a first-come, first serve basis with special accommodations made for senior performers, minors and actors with disabilities.
Producers must also “endeavor” to respond to actors who want to find out if the role has already been cast. “It is so essential that members avail themselves of that option,” said SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee member and L.A.
Local Self Tape Work Group Chair Shaan Sharma (The Chosen). “It’s one of biggest stresses of the self-tape era, not knowing who is working behind the scenes, wanting to work with a casting director or an associate virtually or in person to build a relationship, to get those notes.
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