Placement Division
A service provided by Seattle Talent, Seattle Artists Agency, and their affiliated Partners
Membership in the Placement Division provides Clients with:
- Featured profile on our Seattle Artists Agency website.
- Introductions to Agents, Managers, and Casting Directors working in major markets beyond the Pacific Northwest. This includes opportunities for auditions and representation, as well as participation in live Q&A sessions.
- You'll be sent casting opportunities ranging from local to regional to national, covering a wide span of projects and platforms including print, commercial, online campaigns, television, film, voiceover, and promotional work. These will come to you directly.
- You'll receive one-on-one mentoring focused on your specific path. This includes guidance on audition material, wardrobe, hair, and makeup choices, interview technique, and how to present your personality, talent, and skill to their best advantage.
Models
- Image consulting: What to wear for Zoom auditions, in-person castings, and on-set work. Guidance on makeup, hair, and how to present yourself professionally.
- Portfolio consultation: How to build your book, what looks to include, and how to evolve it over time for different markets.
- Choosing a photographer: Who to shoot with, when, and why it matters. Your photos are your most important marketing tool. You need them to reflect your true potential.
- Agency insight: The best agencies for you in key markets, and how to connect with them. Which ones are worth engaging, and which to avoid.
- International strategy: What proper representation looks like in Europe and Asia, and how to pursue it in the right way.
- How to make a walking video: It needs to show your best. If you have to ask whether it's good enough, it’s not. Your competition is sending their best—so should you.
- How to take proper digitals: Crucial. Clean, clear, and competitive. These are the final part of getting booked, they have to be on point.
- How to create a strong personality video: Your best tool for booking. Designers, photographers, and producers watch your video to choose the models who are fun, real, and will be easy to work with.
Actors
- Online auditioning: How to prepare, perform, and deliver a competitive remote audition.
- Choosing your material: Selecting monologues, scenes, or commercial copy that bring out your strengths and reflect how you're most likely to be cast.
- Self-tape best practices: Lighting, sound, framing, and technical setup. Your job is not to book the role. It's to deliver the strongest audition you can.
- Wardrobe for auditions: What fits your casting type, highlights your best features, and makes sense for the specific role you're reading for.
- One-on-one review of audition pieces: Focused feedback on your monologues, scenes, or commercial reads, with adjustments to strengthen both performance and presentation.
- Seminars with industry professionals: Working Agents, Managers, and Casting Directors offering perspective, direction, and clarification.
- Understanding representation: Whether you need an Agent, a Manager, or both, and how each contributes to building your career.
- Navigating online casting platforms: How to self-submit strategically, stay visible, and make the most of the tools that matter.
- Contracts and exclusivity: What you're agreeing to, what you're giving up, and how to read the fine print before signing.