Improve Your Audition

This workshop walked actors through the audition process, featuring a panel of experienced directors ready to share some tips, advice, stories of successes and failures, and dos and don'ts.

About the Lead Instructor: For more than 20 years, Mike Haddad has been acting and directing onstage at high schools, colleges, and several community theatre groups. His directing credits include four mainstage productions with Theatre@First: The Mousetrap (2015), Mourning Becomes Electra (2017), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged] (2019), and Antigone & Medea: A Greek Tragedy Double Feature (2020). Mike has also directed more than 40 ten-minute plays for a variety of short-play festivals throughout Massachusetts, as well as the 2004 Samuel French Festival in New York City. As a director, Mike has run the gamut from comedy to tragedy, from classical to contemporary. He has learned as much from his own experiences as he has from the many wonderful and talented directors he's worked with in the past.