Mar 10, 2025 - 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM PDT
This event will be held in person.
Where: 4704 SE 65th Ave., Portland, OR 97206
On-set Acting Coach Scott Rogers, will teach a self-tape audition clinic that focuses on the most common problems facing actors in self-tape auditions. Class will consist of a lecture with Q&A’s followed by viewing and discussing your previously submitted self-tapes.
Admission Price: This event is free for SAG-AFTRA members.
If you are not a member you may attend the workshop for $10. Click here to pay.
Upon signing up, you will receive an email reply with the address, sides and instructions for a self-tape mock audition (with a deadline for submitting your self-tape).
PLEASE NOTE:
Only the first 10 self-tapes submitted will be played in class. If you don't submit before the deadline, your self-tape will not be viewed.
Topics covered include:
- SAG-AFTRA's new rules for self-tape auditions
- Learning Lines
- Slating
- Eyes – where to look
- What to wear during an audition.
- Age questions – how to answer them
- Technique: Stage vs. Camera
- Active listening: how this gets you jobs
- Common Traps for actors
- Monologues: what you need and why
- Cold reading
- Breaking down a script/side
About the Instructor :
Scott served as acting coach for 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox) under a multi-year, exclusive contract, coaching actors for television projects. He served as acting coach on the feature Princess Ka`iulani starring Barry Pepper, Will Patton, and Q’orianka Kilcher. Scott has coached principal actors, for more than 4,000 hours on the sets of major motion pictures and national television shows. He has produced, cast and/or directed more than 100 professional productions and he’s written, directed and produced dozens of TV commercials.
He was the full-time, on-set, acting coach for the Fox series North Shore and was previously the full-time acting coach for the hit TV show Baywatch, where he first coached actor Jason Momoa. Scott went on to coach Momoa on 44 episodes of two national tv series, a tv movie, and some auditions (when he still auditioned for roles!). Scott has coached actors like Pat Morita, Brooke Burns, Dominic Purcell, and dozens of others, on the sets of national TV shows and movies.
Working regularly as an Equity theater director in L.A. in the early 1990s, Scott began to get hired by actors, studios, and production companies to direct and/or coach actors, including Donna Mills, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Charles Grodin, Richard Kline, Vincent Gardenia, Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, John Astin and many others.
Scott is a 40+ year member of Actors Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, where he served for 12 years on the SAG and then SAG-AFTRA National Boards and 16 years on the SAG and SAG-AFTRA Hawaii Local Board. Currently he still serves on several SAG-AFTRA National Committees, as Vice-Chair of the SAG-AFTRA National Conservatory Committee and Vice President of the SAG-AFTRA Portland Local.
RSVP: Reservations are required. Please complete form below to RSVP. Please note that you must be logged in to RSVP.
This event is only open to active SAG-AFTRA members in good standing (paid through April 30, 2025). No guests are allowed. Parents/guardians of performers under 18 years old are welcome.
ADA requests may be included on your RSVP form below. Please note that ADA requests must be received 72 hours before the start of the event.