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Anyone know of any ligitamate acting agents for children and teens? Thanks!
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When it comes to agents for teens and children you have to be careful as you know. There's a lot of scams out there including people who say they will put your photo on the Internet for fee so casting directors see it.
That's not how casting directors work to cast films (I've done a bit of work as an extra so I know) and anyone who wants you to pay for lessons, photos etc walk away immediately. All you need are snapshots to begin with.
The only agents who can charge an actor anything are background ( read extras) agents and kids/teens agents because parents and kids often bail and extras often bail when they see this is not all glamourous and fun and games.
There's three types of agents just so you know. The first is the principal agent. For now you need to forget about this kind as they represent 5-10 well-known people or those with potential period and seldom take on someone who is unproven.
The next is a regular agent who has many people on the roster that meet a certain look for adults, teens, etc and you can get film/TV commericails voice-overs from that.
The third one is a background talent agent and it is here where I recommend you start. They will get you on to movie sets for Hollywood films filiming in your city for crowd shots usually and you can get a taste of whether you want to be in the business from being booked on various shoots.
When it comes to reputable agents you need to know that reputable agents and casting directors do not advertise at all in newspapers, phone books, online or in any type of advertising.
The way to find them is to bring up the Screen Actors Guild of America's Web site up and phone them and ask for help with a list of reputable agents in your area. They're the union for actors in the U.S. so they'll know how to direct you in the right direction.
In Canada if you head to ACTRA's Web site there will be a tab somewhere on there that gives you a list of reputable agents in all of Canada.
If you don't see an agent on the list or these people don't know about them don't pursue anything with that agent but only go after people you see on SAG and ACTRA's lists of reputable agents.
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Im not sure about agents.
But there is this one agency
JRP-John Robert Powers
they only take a limited amount
of people at auditions. & they help you
out and give you tips
& you attend weekly classes.
They also hold auditions for their
students, so that the students can get agents.
A couple people that have "graduated" from jrp
are, Brenda song & AJ Trauth.
heres the site
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