PSA: Are you serious about acting? Here's the best way to audition well, but it takes more than just some last minute work.

If you want to make a career from acting or being involved in film or theatre, you have to realize that this is not merely a job, it is a LIFESTYLE. When you have free time, it should be spent refining your craft or at least being involved in some way.

Probably the easiest way to stay involved in the theatre world is to read plays. And not just the classics, but new plays. If you want to be a stage actor, you need to be staying up-to-date with all the newly written plays, as they are the foundation upon which theatre is built.

Quite frankly, based on some of the most common types of threads I see in this subreddit, I can tell that many of you are not reading plays on your own accord. If you were, then I would not see 5 new "Hey, how's my audition piece? I'm doing..." or "ACK I need help, what monologue should I use?" threads every day.

See, what's great about constantly reading plays, is that you should constantly be finding new and exciting monologues. This way, you should NEVER need to ask us, the thespians of r/acting, what to perform for a monologue, because you will be able to remember and reference the plays that you have read, and where good, usable monologues are. This way, you'll also be performing more than what casting directors have heard millions of times because every auditioner uses the same, overdone monologues from the same monologue books.

Anyways, just my two cents. I'm sorry if this comes off as rude or pretentious, but I just feel like this is something that young actors need to know and start doing immediately.