Where can i find an Acting Agent?

Unless you already have professional acting experience, you won't be able to find an agent (a legitimate one) to represent you. An agent's job is to provide casting directors with experienced, professional actors who can show up to jobs knowing exactly what's expected of them. That's the reason casting directors contact agents when they're hiring. TV and film production is incredibly expensive, so directors can't afford to provide on-the-job training. The so-called agents who claim they'll turn inexperienced actors into stars are con artists who make fortunes by promising shortcuts that don't exist. But legitimate agents NEVER ask for money up front. They only get paid when their actors do, since they earn a percentage of what an actor is paid for a job. And legitimate agents NEVER offer acting classes or sell head shots or other promotional materials. If you're serious about acting, you'll need to become an actor before you'll be able to find an agent. Just about everyone you see on TV started out in community theater, since that's about the only place an aspiring actor can learn while gaining the professional experience needed to access other opportunities. If you enroll in classes at a local theater and show that you're talented and committed to learning and mastering the craft of acting, you'll be considered for roles in upcoming productions. Once you've appeared in a few of those, you'll have the experience required to shop for an agent who may be able to find you other work. Most stage actors also work in commercials, TV and movies, so your theater peers will be able to recommend agents when you're ready to take that step. Sorry to sound harsh, but just about everyone your age dreams of becoming famous. The people who make it to TV have usually spent years taking classes, appearing in local theatrical productions and doing commercials so they'd be ready for bigger opportunities. The dues-paying process is important, especially to agents whose reputations and livings depend on the quality of the actors they represent. If an agent sent an amateur actor to an audition, his own reputation would be ruined and the casting director would make sure nobody called that agent again when hiring actors. But if an agent sees that you can recreate the same character night after night onstage without your performances becoming predictable and stale, he'll know you're the real deal and will consider representing you. You have to prove you're a real actor before you can get a real agent.

Hi Alyssa If you want to get an agent you need to get one from a modelling/acting agency. You of course would have to be registerd with the agency first. Make sure that when you get an agent you do NOT pay then until after they have gotten you a job! If they ask you for money before hand then it is a SCAM. Why don't you go in for some interviews at different agencies and see which one you like the best, and the ones that seem modest. Give it a try. I'm starting modelling/acting VERY soon and i'm going to register with the agency. I get 3 agents 2 that will find me the jobs and just my main agent who helps me out with things. I would recommend that you take some acting classes first. Just so that you will mor experience with this and once you get an agent and the agent takes you to auditions and such you will have a betterr chance of getting a job. Hope I helped Alyssa and GOOD LUCK!!! :)

Legitimate agents can be found on the SAG and AFTRA websites http://www.sag.org/content/find-agent http://www.aftra.org/1098020CF8E64E9E8017CFA4DDC56BE0.htm You ONLY contact an agent by mail - never phone or email. You have to mail a cover letter introducing yourself along with your headshot and resume to the agencies and if they are impressed enough with your training and experience, then they will call you in to audition for them. You might have to apply to many agencies to find even one who responds to you. If you don't get any responses, then spend the next 6-12 months building your resume by performing in more school plays, community theatre, etc and take more acting classes and workshops, update your resume, then try again

Hi Alyssa If you want to get an agent you need to get one from a modelling/acting agency. You of course would have to be registerd with the agency first. Make sure that when you get an agent you do NOT pay then until after they have gotten you a job! If they ask you for money before hand then it is a SCAM. Why don't you go in for some interviews at different agencies and see which one you like the best, and the ones that seem modest. Give it a try. I'm starting modelling/acting VERY soon and i'm going to register with the agency. I get 3 agents 2 that will find me the jobs and just my main agent who helps me out with things. I would recommend that you take some acting classes first. Just so that you will mor experience with this and once you get an agent and the agent takes you to auditions and such you will have a betterr chance of getting a job. Hope I helped Alyssa and GOOD LUCK!!! :)

Legitimate agents can be found on the SAG and AFTRA websites http://www.sag.org/content/find-agent http://www.aftra.org/1098020CF8E64E9E8017CFA4DDC56BE0.htm You ONLY contact an agent by mail - never phone or email. You have to mail a cover letter introducing yourself along with your headshot and resume to the agencies and if they are impressed enough with your training and experience, then they will call you in to audition for them. You might have to apply to many agencies to find even one who responds to you. If you don't get any responses, then spend the next 6-12 months building your resume by performing in more school plays, community theatre, etc and take more acting classes and workshops, update your resume, then try again