If you’re an actor looking to get auditions and casting calls for film, television, commercials, soaps, hosting and so forth, then you need to get a legitimate, SAG-franchised talent agent.
If you know someone who has contacts with a strong talent agent and that person you know can call them and refer you, great! Have them do it. But in most cases you will need to contact the agents cold. How do you do that?
The most popular way to get an agent when you don’t “know someone” is to do a cover letter mailing to legitimate agents. But there are two major problems with that.
