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How The Site Works

Actors

1. Create An Actor Hub Account
2. Create A Resume
3. Reply To Casting Calls
4. Get Messages From Casting Directors

Casting Directors

1. Create An Actor Hub Account
2. Find Actors And Other Talent For Your Projects
3. Post A Casting Call
4. Contact Actors

Glossary

Account Info, Account Options, Age, Age Range, Allow Contact, Basic Resume Info, Birthdate, Body Type, Call Description, Call Is Live, Call Keyword, Call Offline Date, Call Title, City, Compensation, Confirm Email Address, Display Name, Email Address, Ethnicity, Eye Color, Featured Resume, First and Last Name, Gender, Hair Color, Height, Is Paying?, Is Searchable?, My Actor Notes, My Call Replies, My Favorites, National Call, Password, Password Confirmation, Pictures, Project Preferences, Project Type, Replied Calls, Results View, Resume Sections, Skills, State, Unions, Weight, Your Links, Zip Code

Actor FAQ

Do I have to fill out all information for my resume?
Why is my resume not in the search results?
I don't have any unions selected in my resume. Why don't I come up in a search for non union actors?
How do I know that the person contacting me is really a casting director?

Casting Director FAQ

What does it mean when my call is "live"?
How do I know if my call is live?
Why can't I contact some actors?

Other FAQ

If your site is free to actors and casting people, who pays for site hosting and maintenance?
What are the advertisements on the right side of the page?
The site says that my email address is never displayed. How can people contact me if they don't have my email address?

How The Site Works

Actors

Create An Actor Hub Account

Sign up for an Actor Hub account.
An activation message will be sent to your email address.
Click on the link in the message to activate your account.
Log In to your account.

Create A Resume

After you sign in, go to the Manage Resume page.
Enter basic info, experience, skills, project preferences, and other info. You can also upload images and a copy of your resume in Word or PDF format.
If you have the "Should your resume be searchable on the site?" option set to "Yes" and you have uploaded at least one image, your resume will be searchable on the site.

Reply To Casting Calls

Go to the Casting Call Search page.
Search for Casting Calls by location and keywords.
When you find a casting call that you are interested in, click on the \"Reply To This Call\" button on the Casting Call page. You can optionally add notes for the Casting Director.
You can search for casting calls that you have replied to on the Casting Call Search page. You will see this option when you are logged in.

Get Messages From Casting Directors

If you set the Who can contact you option, users will be able to contact you. You can choose to be contacted by Any User, Only Casting Directors, or No One. Any User is the default. Note: the Only Casting Directors option will let anyone with a Casting Director account contact you. We do not verify that these people are actually casting directors.
Users that contact you will not see your email address. Instead they see a contact form that will send you a message. The message will have their email address so you can reply to them.
You can see all of your sent and received messages on the Messages Page. You can reply to messages here, or through your email account.

Casting Directors

Create An Actor Hub Account

Sign up for an Actor Hub account.
An activation message will be sent to your email address.
Click on the link in the message to activate your account.
Log In to your account.

Find Actors And Other Talent For Your Projects

Go to the Actor Search page.
Fill out the search form to find actors by location, gender, age, or other criteria.
You can use your favorites list and actor notes to keep track of actors that you are interested in.

Post A Casting Call

Go to the Manage Calls page.
Click on the Add A Call link.
Enter information on your casting call.
You can go to the Manage Calls page to see how many replies your calls have. Click on the number to see the replies, along with any notes.

Contact Actors

When you are logged in, you will see options at the top of actor pages. one of the options will be to contact the actor. *note - some actors have their accounts set up so that they can not be contacted.
When you click on the Contact button, a window will pop up with a contact form. When you fill out the contact form, an email will be sent to the actor. Your email address will be in the message so the actor will be able to get back to you.
You can see all of your sent and received messages on the Messages Page.

Glossary

Account Info: Main information relating to all Actor Hub accounts: Email Address, Password, and Name
Account Options: Options on who can contact an actor and if their resume should be searchable
Age: The actual age of an actor. Actors do not enter this as a number, they enter their birth date so age is always up to date.
Age Range: The range of ages that that an actor can play.
Allow Contact: Who is allowed to contact an actor. "Registered Users" will let anyone with an Actor Hub account contact them. "Casting Directors" will only allow users who signed up for an Actor Hub account as a casting director to contact them (not other actors). Note that Actor Hub does not verify that people who sign up for Casting Director accounts are actually casting directors.
Basic Resume Info: Main information section of an actor resume. It includes gender, ethnicity, height, etc.
Birthdate: An actor's actual birth date. Used to determine their age. The date is never displayed on the site, only the actor's current age based on their birth date. This is so the age is always current.
Body Type: An actor's body type.
Call Description: Main text of the casting call.
Call Is Live: If the call is currently live on the site. This means that actors can search for it and reply to it. Whether or not this is selected, the call will be offline when the offline date hits.
Call Keyword: Any word in a casting call's title or description.
Call Offline Date: Date a casting call will automatically go offline. It cannot be more than 90 days from the date the call was created. If the Offline Date is before the current date and "Call Is Live" is checked, the call will be searchable and actors will be able to reply to it.
Call Title: Short description of the casting call.
City: The city where an actor or casting call is located.
Compensation: Actors can choose if they are interested in working on projects without payment (student films, independent projects, etc.)
Confirm Email Address: Re-enter your email address to make sure it is correct.
Display Name: How an Actor Hub user's name will appear on the site. They can include their middle name or middle initial. If they want to hide their name from site visitors, they can only enter their first name. This is the only way that a User's name is displayed on the site. The First Name and Last Name fields are never displayed.
Email Address: A valid email address MUST be entered to create an Actor Hub account. A verification message will be sent to the email account when a user first signs up to verify the email address. Users' email addresses are never displayed on the site. Users who want to contact an actor will fill out a contact form, which will send a message to the actor's email account.
Ethnicity: Your ethnicity. Only one answer is allowed. Please choose the one that best describes the way you look.
Eye Color: An actor's eye color.
Featured Resume: Featured resumes are well formatted, professional looking resumes that Actor Hub tries to promote. Visitors to the site can search resumes based on if they are featured and several random featured resumes appear on the Actor Hub home page. In order to be considered for being a featured resume, an actor must select the "Would You Like To Be Considered For Featured Resumes" option on the "Manage Resume" Page.
First and Last Name: Used for sorting search results, displaying the actor directory, and for our records. The First and Last Name information that you enter is never displayed on the site.
Gender: An actor's Gender (Male or Female)
Hair Color: An actor's hair color.
Height: an Actor's height.
Is Paying?: Whether or not there is monetary payment for working on a project. Please only select this if the project is definitely paying, not on projects that have deferred payments or profit sharing.
Is Searchable?: Whether or not an actor's resume will appear with search results. This could be unchecked if you are currently too busy to start new projects or if you only want people that you direct to your resume to see it.
My Actor Notes: For Casting Directors, they can search only for actors that they have written notes for.
My Call Replies: For Casting Directors, they can search for Actors that have replied to any of their calls. They can also search for Actors that have replied to a specific call.
My Favorites: For Casting Directors, they can search only for actors that they have saved to their Favorites List.
National Call: Nationwide call for actors
Password: Your password. You will need to remember it because it will be required every time you log into Actor Hub
Password Confirmation: Re-enter your password to make sure it is correct.
Pictures: Actors can upload up to 12 pictures with their resume. The first image will be the default image that will appear in search results. The images can be reordered so that any uploaded image can be set to the default image.
Project Preferences: What types of projects an actor is interested in working on and if they will consider non paying projects.
Project Type: Types of projects that an actor is interested in working on. This is NOT necessarily the types of projects that they have worked on previously.
Replied Calls: Actors can search for calls that they've replied to.
Results View: How results of Actor Searches are viewed. If you are logged in, you can see a detailed view with your notes and if the actors have replied to your calls. If you are not logged in, you will only be able to see the default view.
Resume Sections: This is for other information that an actor would like to display with their resume. These can either be in table form (for example, a "Film Experience" section with the column headers "title", "role", "director", and "year") or as text in paragraph form (for example, "Goals") "Additional Skills"), etc.
Skills: Non acting skills that could be needed in acting roles such as singing, dancing, playing a sport, playing an instrument, etc.
State: The state where an actor or casting call is located.
Unions: Actor Unions to which an actor belongs. Note that not choosing any unions and choosing "nonnunion" are not the same thing. Not choosing any unions means that you didn't give any information in this optional field, choosing "nonunion" means that the actor is not in any union.
Weight: An actor's weight in pounds.
Your Links: The web address (URL) of an actor's resume on Actor Hub. There are 2, the main link and the additional link. The additional link will redirect to the main link. The default main link is the display name with spaces replaced with dashes. The default additional link is the display name with spaces removed.
Zip Code: Zip code. This is used to determine locations. An actor's zip code is never displayed, only the city and state that it is in. Casting call zip codes are displayed.

Actor FAQ

Do I have to fill out all information for my resume?
No. None of the fields are required. When you don't fill them out, they don't appear on your resume. So if you don't enter your weight, rather than saying "weight: no information", the weight field will be skipped all together. However, that if you leave any field blank, you will not come up in searches for that field.

Why is my resume not in the search results?
In order for your resume to appear on the site, you must set "Should your resume be searchable on the site?" to yes. Also, you must have at least 1 image with your resume.

I don't have any unions selected in my resume. Why don't I come up in a search for non union actors?
There is an option under Unions called "non union" that you must select. As with any field, if you don't enter any information, it is assumed that you are skipping that field.

How do I know that the person contacting me is really a casting director?
You don't. Anyone can sign up for a Casting Director account, we do not screen this information. So as with answering any ads, use good judgment.

Casting Director FAQ

What does it mean when my call is "live"?
When a call is live, actors can search for it and reply to it. When it is offline, the only actors that can see it are actors that have already applied to it.

How do I know if my call is live?
A call is live if the "Is Live?" option is set and the "offline date" is not yet reached.

Why can't I contact some actors?
Actors have 3 contact options on who can contact them: "Only Registered Users", "Only Registered Casting Directors", and "No one."

Other FAQ

If your site is free to actors and casting people, who pays for site hosting and maintenance?
We get money from the sponsored ads.

What are the advertisements on the right side of the page?
We subscribe to a service called "Google Adsense". It displays ads on the site. That is how we keep the site free. Adsense chooses which ads are displayed, Actor Hub takes no responsibility for the ads or the pages that they link to.

The site says that my email address is never displayed. How can people contact me if they don't have my email address?
People who visit your actor resume and want to contact you will fill out a form with their name, and a message. This information along with their email address will be emailed to you from Actor Hub. Note that you can set you contact presences in the "Who Can Contact You?" field on the "Manage Resume" page.