Keep six audition pieces warm across the slots that briefs actually land in — 30-second, 60-second, and 2-minute cuts in both contemporary and classical lanes. Log your prepped piece for each slot, then drill any of them against our scene partner in one click. Built so you pick from the shelf when the brief lands, not from scratch.
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The self-tape brief that lands in your inbox at 10pm. Post-1980 play or film piece.
The default TV/film general audition length. Post-1980 piece with one clean tactical shift.
MFA and season-audition length. Needs a real pivot at the ninety-second mark.
Verse. Shakespeare, Marlowe, sometimes Molière. Tight cut, single thought.
The standard verse ask. One turn-of-thought, one landed argument.
MFA and drama-school ask. Sustained verse work with at least one shape shift.
Why six slots. Almost every audition ask lands inside one of six brackets: thirty seconds, sixty seconds, or two minutes — in either the contemporary or the classical lane. Working actors keep one warm piece in each. When a brief arrives with a thirty-second contemporary ask, you pick from the slot; you do not spend the weekend selecting.
How to keep them warm. Cycle each slot through our scene partner tool once a week. A ten-minute pass keeps the piece in your body without over-rehearsing it. Actors who wait until the audition to re-rehearse the piece bring a version they last did three months ago.
Tip: fill the contemporary lane first. Every TV/film general and most drama-school first-rounds are contemporary asks; classical slots are only load-bearing for verse ensembles, Shakespeare festivals, and MFA final rounds.
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