Acting Career: How to Get an Agent

Now you are ready to start your search for an agent. Let’s talk about where you can find not only legitimate but great agents.

Now that you have created a list of agents to contact and ask for a meeting for potential representation, let’s talk about how to approach them.

Even when your communications are perfect, you may not get responses from agents. Let’s talk about how to optimize your response ratio.

Let’s review our main points of how to contact and follow up with agents on your target list

It is not uncommon to feel like agents would not be interested in you at this point in your acting journey. Let’s discuss that, and how to overcome this insecurity.

Referrals are the easiest way to get an agent. On the other side of that coin, referrals are very hard to get. So, let’s talk about referrals.

Although sometimes actors approach a meeting with an agent as a job interview, the reality is that you are interviewing each other. Let’s talk about what to expect from an agent meeting and how to be prepared.

Let’s review the questions you will likely be asked and take a look at the questions you must ask an agent during a meeting.

Even after a meeting, an agent may not be the best fit for your acting career goals. Let’s talk about how to make the important decision of signing with an agent or continuing your search.

Whether or not you feel like the meeting was successful, you should always end it on a good note. Let’s talk about how to do that.

In this lesson, your instructor shares some of her own experiences signing with agents.

You may find yourself with a few meetings within the same time period and end up with multiple offers from different agents. What a great problem to have. Let’s talk about deciding which agent to sign with.

What is a submissions report and how to best use the information provided in them by your agent.

Should you have only one agent or more than one? Let’s dive into the different scenarios.

In this lesson, you get more insights into starting a professional relationship with an agent.

What if your agent disappears from your radar and you have not heard from them in several weeks, maybe months? That is not something you want but unfortunately for actors, it is a common scenario. Let’s discuss it, and how to address this issue.

What are the rules for contacting your agent?

Let’s talk about how, when, and how much to pay your agent.

At any point in your professional relationship with your agent, you might question whether or not it is working for you. Let’s discuss that.

As your career progresses, the way you communicate with agents changes. Let’s talk about that.

Let’s talk about why you might get dropped by an agent and what to do about it.

When actor friends ask you to refer them to an agent, you may question whether or not to help them. Let’s talk about making that decision.

Becoming and remaining an agent’s dream client is an ongoing process. Let’s discuss that.

What you learned and putting it into practice.