AUDITION TECHNIQUE AND PROTOCOL, PLUS EVENT Q&A
with casting director Helene Galek, Audition tech producer Tamra Pica and TRU executive director Bob Ost.

TWO DATES:
Thursday 4/23, 6PM to 7:30PM ET
Saturday 4/25, 2PM to 3:30PM ET
on Zoom

Another great opportunity to prepare yourself for the TRU Audition, and it's free for anyone who has applied to the event (but you must reserve your space), $40 for everyone else. ALL ARE WELCOME! Longtime casting director Helene Galek will go over best practices for a virtual audition, with advice for making the most of the technology you have available. She will also offer a more detailed look at the essentials of making a good impression, from getting a headshot that really sells you to formatting your resume professionally ... and way beyond basics to selecting audition material that works for you, shaping it effectively, dressing the part plus a taste of how to take your audition to the next level. 

Audition Technique will be preceded by a presentation by TRU executive Bob Ost with information and Q&A to prepare you for the TRU Audition Event on May 2 & 3. Click here to return to the Audition Event main page.

If you have already applied to the TRU Audition Conference, you do not need to register. You will receive a personalized link. 

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  HELENE GALEK

  is an indie casting director mostly working in the local NYC area. She has cast a wide variety of projects including film,  legit and musical theater, cabaret and VO. Helene has also given seminars, coached actors  and has also worked as a casting consultant on many projects. As an actor, she has found that  being on "both sides of the table" has proved valuable in the casting process. Helene is also a writer and producer and enjoys all the aspects of all these positions. Currently, she is in several preparatory  conversations for upcoming film and musical theater productions. Helene has always called in actors who have auditioned for TRU! 

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  BOB OST

  While still a senior at U. of Pa., his one-act Beast was produced by Bob Moss in the first season of Playwrights Horizons. He went on to write book, music and lyrics for the off-Broadway revue Everybody’s Gettin’ into the Act at the Actor’s Playhouse, and Finale!, Grand Prize winner in the 1990 American Musical Theater Festival Competition (presented at NAMT) and the 1992 New American Musical Writers Competition, and a finalist at the O’Neill Music Conference in 1989. More recently his musical Angel in My Heart won Best Musical in the Fresh Fruit Festival. He won the New Works of Merit Playwriting Competition for his play Breeders, previously a finalist at the O'Neill, as well as a selection of the TRU Voices New Plays Reading Series. The Necessary Disposal was a finalist in the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, has been a finalist in three other national competitions, and was part of the Shotgun Productions New Play Reading Series and the Oberon Theatre Reading Series, both in NYC; his one-act A Glass of Water was part of the Lovecreek Festival, HomoGenius Festival, Downtown Urban Arts Festival; other one-acts have been showcased all over New York. He won a 2004 OOBR Award for the review "Songs Are Like Friends", and is a 3-time MAC nominee. While he was producing his own musical revues at cabarets around Manhattan he discovered he could combine his artistic talent with the business skills he was picking up in the advertising world. The idea of Theater Resources Unlimited was born, with the help of co-founders (and  fellow writers) Gary Hughes and Cheryl Davis in 1992. He has gone on to produce musicals Civil War Voices and Rip in the Midtown International Theater Festival, and the classic Chinese musical, Romance of the Western Chamber.

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  TAMRA PICA

  producer and casting director for Write Act Repertory. Tamra's theater and television work spans 33 years and over 250 productions as a prop designer, AEA Stage Manager, producer and casting director of plays, musicals, dance and ice shows. She produces both Off Broadway, as well as, managing the Los Angeles theater presence for Write Act.  Recent credits include the long-running Frankenstein, Wicked City Blues, and Swing.  Other credits include: Lili Marlene, Caldwell’s Bomb for the New York Venus/Adonis Theater Festival, Renewal, Your Name on My Lips at Theater for the New City and the long running musical Fabulous! Queen of the New Musicals where she served as a casting director and producer.  Alongside theater, Tamra’s work production, casting, and development television work can be seen for companies such as Disney, Sony, Cartoon Network, NBC Studios, TBS, CBS, MTV, ABC and FOX.  She currently works on the animated Disney series Mira, Royal Detective.