Back Stage 411 - Casting FAQ

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The following posts are from our old FAQ and may not always apply to the new Backstage.com/Casting site's tools and current functionality.

Find Great Talent: Cast Your Projects with Back Stage

Professional casting made easy: Cast your films, TV shows, commercials, online videos, theater productions, webseries, music videos, voice-over projects, print campaigns, and more.

Cast Like a Pro - Find Amazing Talent for All of Your Projects

THE CASTING RESOURCE USED BY PROFESSIONALS

Back Stage is used by hundreds of professional casting directors every day — including members of the Casting Society of America (CSA) and the Commercial Casting Directors Association (CCDA) — in addition to filmmakers, theatre-makers, film students, talent scouts, comedy club bookers, agents, managers, HR reps, record producers, and more. Everyone that's in the know knows that when you need to find talent for your project, Back Stage is the best way to get the word out to an extraordinary pool of actors, models, and performers.

POST A NOTICE: CASTING MADE EASY

Simply use our online posting form at BackStage.com/FindTalent to quickly paste in your casting calls and character breakdowns, and then we'll take care of everything for you. Every breakdown is carefully reviewed, formatted, and proofread by Back Stage's casting editors before being published in print or online – so you can rest easy knowing that you'll receive a professional presentation.

To learn how to use Back Stage to cast your project, please check out this article: "How to Find Talent, Receive Submissions, Save Résumés, and Contact Applicants in Bulk."

How to Find Talent, Receive Submissions, Save Résumés, and Contact Applicants in Bulk

Casting directors, agents, and employers can use BackStage.com to find actors, models, performers (dancers, singers, comedians, musicians, and more); manage submissions; and then contact the job applicants individually or in bulk.

To start your talent search, visit the Casting Center Toolbox and then "Post a Notice" to call for cast and crew.

And to supplement your search, visit the Back Stage Multimedia Résumé Talent Database and use advanced search criteria (including gender, age ranges, skills, union status, geographic location, etc.) to find even more actors, models, and performers.

Plus, you can set up Saved Résumé Searches and Alerts to automatically search the Talent Database for you; your Resume Alert Agents will email you resumes that match your search criteria until you've finished casting.

Once you've received a ton of Multimedia Résumé submissions thanks to the Casting Notice you posted on BackStage.com – and/or after you've found some great actors in Back Stage's Talent Database yourself – visit your Résumé Inbox & Applicant Manager to view, organize, tag, sort, and filter through the submissions you've received and resumes you've found. (Quick tip: use the "Advanced Filter" option in your Inbox to manage the résumés more effectively.)

Then use the following options to contact the actors you'd like to audition:

Find Top Talent with Back Stage

FIND AMAZING NEW TALENT

Back Stage reaches over 400,000 actors, singers, dancers, models, musicians, comedians, fame-seekers, and entertainment-industry professionals every month.

Visit http://backstage.com/FindTalent to:

• Post a notice to quickly get the word out about your talent calls, job opportunities, workshops, competitions, groups, open mikes, film festivals, script calls, auditions, and more.
• Use one simple form to simultaneously run your notice across Back Stage's multimedia network – including its popular online database, daily Casting/Job Alert emails, and weekly print-edition newspapers and digital magazines.

Find Great Talent with the New Back Stage National Edition

We're very excited to announce that we've merged Back Stage East and Back Stage West into a single weekly publication, which will be available as a tabloid-sized newspaper on newsstands, in bookstores, and in subscribers' mailboxes across the U.S.

When you post a notice with Back Stage, you'll now reach twice as many people. Plus, the national edition of Back Stage is also available as a digital magazine, which will help you reach even more Back Stage readers across the world — check out BackStage.com/digital for a free Back Stage Digital Edition trial subscription.

To find talent for your projects, visit the Casting Center's Employer's Toolbox and click on "Post a Notice."

View Your Order Receipts After Posting a Notice

After posting a notice via BackStage.com -- seeking cast, crew, and/or submissions for your projects (which may include calls for film, television, theatre, dance, music, writing, or comedy-club projects, entertainment-industry contests, film festivals, workshops, auditions, membership companies, etc.)  --you can view and/or print your order receipts at anytime.

Simply take the following three steps:

"Where are my Resume Alerts, Application Submissions, and other BackStage.com emails?"

Talent-Database Resume Alert Emails are an exclusive self-serve feature of the Find Talent/Casting Center Employer Toolbox section of BackStage.com. You can create as many alerts as you’d like, to automatically search through the BackStage.com Talent Database for exactly the actors, performers, and crew you need. You can renew the alerts, extend the alerts, edit the alerts, delete the alerts, etc.

If at anytime you stop receiving the Alerts that you’ve created, then please log into the site and make sure that your Résumé Inbox (Application Submissions Manager Inbox) is not filed up, that none of your Resume Alert Email Agents need to be renewed, and that your search-criteria is correct and optimized.

Also, make sure to check your "spam," "bulk," and "junk" email folders in case Back Stage's emails are accidentally being caught by your email program's spam filter! More details are below . . .

Log-In Help: Find Talent/Casting Center Employer Account

If you forget your Find Talent/Casting Center Employer Account's "login" username or password, then you can click on the "Forgot your login and password?" link on the Employer Login page to have your log-in information emailed to you.

Help Topic: "I don't want to receive resume submissions via email or online!"

If  your company or agency no longer wishes to receive submissions (resumes, photos, reels, etc.) from actors, models, performers, or crew via email, then Back Stage may be able to help you. However, first we'll need to figure out where your email address is being found in Back Stage's print and/or online editions.

Please check on the following possibilities: