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Jan 23, 2025 - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM MST

This event will be held online.

Start 2025 off taping and auditioning like the pro you are!

In today’s world, auditions are being held three ways: in person, self-tape and live remote. The requirements of the latter two can be challenging and overwhelming. 

Working actor and coach Amanda Melby has been self-taping and live remote auditioning since 2014 and is excited to share her expertise, tips and tricks with the Arizona-Utah Local membership so your auditions look and sound as professional as your acting talent.

In this online program, you’ll learn best practices for: 

  • Set Up and Preparation
  • Lighting and Technical requirements
  • Editing and Delivery

Plus

  • Equipment Guide
  • Q & A
  • Feedback on Self-Tape Set Up (time permitting)
     

Participants are encouraged to join from their best self-tape location. 

This Arizona-Utah Conservatory program is free to SAG-AFTRA members as a benefit of membership.

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.
 

About the Presenter: 
Amanda Melby, a native Minnesotan, made her way to Phoenix via Southern California, Washington, DC and Cleveland. She has worked as a professional actor for over 30 years and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA. Amanda produced and starred in the feature film RAISING BUCHANAN with René Auberjonois and M. Emmet Walsh. Other films include FUNNY THING ABOUT LOVE, LOCKER 13, JAKE’S CORNER with Richard Tyson, NETHERBEAST INCORPORATED, and THE MAJESTIC.Her short films include COVET, CULT STATUS, and SMALL HAPPYS. Television includes CANDID CAMERA, S.I.S., BOSTON PUBLIC and SCREEN WARS. Amanda is a busy commercial actress and also works as a producer, director and spokeswoman. She is the Owner/Head Coach of Verve Studios. She is a four-time Emmy® nominee for SCREEN WARS and RAISING BUCHANAN, was the 2007 Phoenix Film Foundation Board Member of the Year, the 2008 Layne Award recipient and was a 2011 Governor’s Arts Award nominee. She studied in Howard Fine’s Master Class and is currently in Gunnar Rohrbacher’s Sitcom Master Class in LA. Amanda is an accomplished cellist and holds a BA in theatre and English from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. She is repped by the Leighton Agency (AZ) and Bankston Talent (NM).  
 



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