Finding CastUnsuccessful

University of Leeds• I started off by emailing drama societies

within the University, such as Stage@Leeds and the Open Theatre Society.

• I did not receive any responses from the theatre societies

• Although I received an email back from Jane Richardson at Stage@Leeds saying that they would be able to advertise the roles on their website, I was not contacted by any willing students.

Local Drama Schools/Stage School

• Next, I tried to contact local drama schools to see if they had any interested students or could point me in the right direction.

• I phoned Stagecoach Leeds Horsforth and Leeds Morley and spoke to the manager, Ken. He asked me to email him the relevant details so he could forward them to interested parties. However, I did not hear back from anyone.

• I also emailed Kristie from PQAgencies| Q Management for child and teenage actors. She said they may have interested adult actor in Q Management and child actors in Quirky Kidz, however, I received no feedback.

• Lastly, I emailed YAFTA (Yorkshire Academy of Film and Television), however, again, I did not hear back from anyone willing to fufill the roles.

Kids Calling Cast Pro

• In order to find child actors, I also set up an account on Kids Casting Call Pro.

• However, after doing this, I found out that they did not advertise unpaid jobs for children.

Calling Cast Pro• I also set up a Calling Cast Pro account for

the character of Matthew (Protagonist) and Mrs Harrison (The Mum)

• I had a successful response for this advertisement and 5 males contacted me via email.

• However, they all lived very far away, therefore making it very inconvenient. Some were also expecting expenses to be paid, which our student budget could not afford.