Requesting Self-Tapes as a Casting Director

If you’ve chosen to transition your in-person auditions to self tapes, we’d be happy to help. Our team will help provide an easy, secure way for you to request self-tapes from reps and talent, and then see those self tapes in your Casting Networks projects.

We recommend that you create your project, receive submissions, and make selects as you normally would. Make sure you’re attaching sides or self-tape instructions to your roles. 

Once you’ve made selects, you can create an audition schedule with talent from whom you’d like self tapes - we’d recommend setting the audition date as the date you’d like self-tapes due. 

When sending audition times, please include this message to both agents and any non-represented talent:

We are NOT holding in-person auditions for this project. Please have your talent self-tape with the sides or instructions attached to the role for which they are requested. The self-tapes are due by XX/XX/XXX at XX:XXam/pm.

Once the talent has taped their audition, please upload file(s) using castingnetworks.wetransfer.com. Please include the following information in the “Message” field:

Actor Name:

Agency or Management Company:

Casting Director: 

Project Name: 

Role Name: 

Please name your files in the following format: firstnamelastname_projectname. For example: johnsmith_Target.

Casting Networks will take it from here. We will upload these videos to your projects in a session titled “Self-Tapes” so you can continue to create presentations to send to your clients. All self-tapes will be uploaded directly into your account as quickly as possible, processing them in order of their arrival.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. We’re always here at support@castingnetworks.com or by phone at 213-201-8100 x350.