How do you know if your child is good enough?

poetgrl
Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:45:06 +0000

You don’t have to worry about this. This is one of those questions that takes care of itself. Also, how do you know if they are good enough isn’t even the “right” question. How do you know they will be fortunate enough to meet the right people, to make the right move at the right audition, to get the right audition, to look the part, have the right chemistry, etc…

It’s not a useful question.

If they are good enough to have had outside attention outside of their school environment, attractive enough, or interesting enough, to have gotten approached from time to time by a casting director or agent? Likely they have a shot.

Having a shot in the performing arts is likely not enough, and yet, still, it doesn’t matter. There are hundreds of career paths in the performing arts, and almost all the best in every field, with rare exception, began as a hopeful performer.

That light guy/gal, sound guy/gal, camera, costume, styling, prop, scene, stage manager, director, choreographer, writer, etc… casting director, agent, manager.

It’s a huge field.