BWW Blog: Micah Young - Timely Displays Of Affection

Often we think of city-life and business as impersonal and without feeling. However, in the time-is-money culture, there is a difference between being time efficient and being cold-hearted. After seeing hundreds if not thousands of actors auditioning for a production, it's easy for the casting room to feel like a revolving door: one actor out, the next one in. There's little time to be overly cordial.

For my own experiences, I appreciate when time is not wasted, and respect is maintained. I've had those moments where someone is overly effusive, or feels they need to put on a display of affection when it's unnecessary. I sometimes think that if we show preferential treatment to one person in a casting or business scenario, we need to show it everyone, lest we appear to having favorites.

Be that as it may, there are people we may know, or prefer, or show some sort of acknowledgement to; it happens. In the postmortem of an audition, we sometimes wonder if the casting team didn't care about us, or if they were cold. Sometimes it's none of those; they could simply be busy, and above all, wish to respect your time.

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