Should Actors Get Paid To Audition? A Former Casting Director Worries It Would Lead To “Death Of Developmental Actors”
deadline.comA pair of hot-button Instagram posts from a director-turned-acting coach has once again put the spotlight on whether SAG-AFTRA should enforce audition pay — an entitlement that’s been in the actors’ contract since 1947.
Samantha Stiglitz, whose former casting credits include Burn Notice, Pretty Little Liars and Final Destination 5, told her 34k-plus followers that it would be “problematic” to pay actors for what is essentially “a job interview.” Stiglitz told Deadline that she’s aware that actors have long been entitled to compensation for auditions; information about the fee structure is available on the SAG-AFTRA website.
She’s just worried that producers would severely scale back the number of actors they would consider for a role if they had to pay them all for auditioning. “Just suppose production did find the money to pay for auditions,” she said on IG.
Stiglitz now works as an acting and audition coach and has offered tips on making it in Hollywood for years via social media. “Right now with self tapes, casting directors are seeing quadrangle the number of times of auditions they were normally seeing when it was in person.
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