CREW CALL - "How to Nail Authentic Auditions"

WHO IS CREW CALL FOR?
Creatives in every department behind the scenes of TV and Film, especially below the line.

Working professionals in entertainment seeking to grow laterally, advance to the next level of their craft and network across.

Industry-adjacent adults who seek to break glass ceilings. The folks who’d benefit from craft-based education, connections to career advocates and access into the industry pipeline of opportunities.

Crew Call is for every artist who makes the stories we see come to life. If you’re here, this is probably for you.

You ARE the industry!

What is this workshop for?

This workshop is designed to ground the actor in authenticity and develop skills for on-camera auditions. We will cover grounding exercises that emphasize relaxation, focus and emotional experience, foundations of scene study and self-tape audition techniques. All participants will leave the workshop with a completed audition tape.
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About the Instructors

Chinai Routté was born in Baltimore and spent her formative years in Georgia. Chinai has been acting professionally for almost two decades. Having fallen in love with the craft as a young person; she charted her path across multiple mediums including stage, film, vertical media, print and commercials. She has trained with Vera Katz, John Pallota, Karan Kendrick of The Kendrick Academy, among others. She has taught drama and dance at public schools in Baltimore, Atlanta and New York; and designed arts curriculum for students at the world famous Apollo Theater. Her acting credits include POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive at Everyman Theatre; Room Enough (For Us All) at Rattlestick Theater and Fire This Time Festival; The Trip to Bountiful at Cleveland Playhouse and Round House Theatre; and the World Premiere of The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years at the Alliance Theatre and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Films include: The Day Before Christmas (2024 BET+ Holiday Release); I Never Said Goodbye; The Sound of Light; Air Junie and Process.

Taura Musgrove is a filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University’s Film & Media MA program. She has studied acting, writing and directing for close to twenty years. She trained at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Bay Area Theater Sports (taking Improv with Rebecca Stockley), San Francisco Acting Academy and Film Acting Bay Area (FABA) under Sundance and Cannes Award-winning filmmaker Rob Nilsson. It was under Mr. Nilsson that she learned his Direct Action technique for acting and directing. She appeared in and directed several projects with him. With her Bay Area film collective, she produced, One Weekend A Month, a film that went on to win an honorable mention award for “best short” at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. She worked as an assistant to award-winning actor Delroy Lindo, and eventually joined the Marketing and Documentary Departments of Pixar Animation Studios as a Production Manager and Associate Producer. She looks forward to developing community with actors and actresses in Baltimore who, like her, love the craft.

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