8 Tips for Giving Your Spookiest Audition Yet!

Much like acting, Halloween is all about putting on a costume and staring at yourself in the mirror. Ring in the Halloween season by attending auditions as your truest, most terrifying self. If you can go full on Jared Leto, you just might scare them into casting you!

Here are Hackstage’s tips for keeping it “SPOOKY!”

1. Instead of entering through the door that monitor asks you to use, find a back entrance or climb through a window. Sneak up behind the auditioner and yell boo! (“Who’s paying attention now SUCKERS!”)

2. If there's no back door, stand by the front door and flicker the lights as you speak your text. Exit in darkness.

3. Three words: Hidden. Blood. Packet.

4. If your piece calls for tears, cry blood.

5. Put your headshot in a spooky halloween grab bag. Make the auditor dig through peeled grapes (or actual eyeballs, if you have the budget) to find your resume.

6. Show your affinity for character work by doing your monologue in the voice of the haunted mansion announcer at Disney World.

7. Fill your mouth with an infinite number of spiders. When it is time to start your monologue, open your mouth to release them into the audition room, forever cursing the auditors and their descendants.

8. Follow the casting director home in a mask.