The Actor's Career Compass: Your Guide to Acting in Film, Finding Auditions & Agents, and Joining SAG AFTRA

Struggling to book your first speaking role in a network-level production?

If so, this podcast is for you. You’ll learn how to find and sign with great agents, how to start getting access to high-quality auditions, and how to book major union speaking roles.

Each episode addresses specific challenges faced by aspiring screen actors, including:

- What casting directors are really looking for in screen actors.
- How to find and impress legit, high-level agents.
- How to build strong industry connections (even if you don’t know anyone yet).

New episodes are released Mondays and Thursdays, each filled with tactical advice to help you work through different challenges. Host Martin Bentsen has helped over 6000 actors since 2009, and has been featured in Backstage, Casting Networks, NYU Tisch, and more

Ready to dive in? Start by listening to fan-favorite Episode #14: “Where to Find Legit Auditions (Without an Agent).”

Hosted on Captivate

This podcast may use dynamic content insertion

Stats: Statistics are produced by Captivate to help The Actor's Career Compass: Your Guide to Acting in Film, Finding Auditions & Agents, and Joining SAG AFTRA to understand how many downloads it is getting, or how many people are listening. Your device’s IP address and user agent is used to help calculate this figure. Captivate is IAB v2 certified. Here is more detail about podcast statistics.

Dynamic content insertion: Captivate may use limited data that they know about you - the device you’re using, the approximate location you’re in, or other data that can be derived from this, like the current weather forecast for your area - to change parts of the audio. The Actor's Career Compass: Your Guide to Acting in Film, Finding Auditions & Agents, and Joining SAG AFTRA may do this for advertising or for other forms of content, like news stories.

The Actor's Career Compass: Your Guide to Acting in Film, Finding Auditions & Agents, and Joining SAG AFTRA is able to use the above tools since its podcast host or measurement company offers this service. It doesn’t mean that this individual podcast uses them, or has access to this functionality. We use open data.

Listen and follow

Information for podcasters

• Podcast GUID: 1f28ce0b-1268-56fc-b784-44e473218c95
• Before Sep 2024, this podcast was hosted on Simplecast.
• Before Sep 2024, this podcast was hosted on Simplecast.
• Before Sep 2024, this podcast was hosted on Simplecast.
• This podcast doesn’t have a trailer. Apple Podcasts has a specific episode type for a trailer, which also gets used by many other podcast apps: but there isn’t one correctly marked in the RSS feed from Captivate.
• The & character might make your podcast harder to search for - it’s a special character that needs careful encoding to always work in apps and websites, and it makes things complicated to request podcasts using voice assistants. How about using Captivate’s dashboard to call it The Actor's Career Compass: Your Guide to Acting in Film, Finding Auditions and Agents, and Joining SAG AFTRA instead?
• This podcast appears to be missing from iVoox, Luminary, and iHeartRadio. We list all the podcast directories to be in.
• See all episodes
• Validate this podcast’s RSS feed with Livewire, Truefans or CastFeedValidator

Privacy: The player will download audio directly from Captivate if you listen. That shares data (like your IP address or details of your device) with them.
Affiliate links: This page links to Apple Podcasts. We may receive a commission for purchases made via those links.
Cache: This podcast page made Sep 17, 2:16am UTC. Scheduled for update on Oct 17. Rebuild this page now