Michael Venske

There are some auditions you go to and you know you’ve “nailed it.” Then there are the auditions where thirty-seconds into them you know you’ve failed… Yesterday I failed during the audition for

Last week I scheduled an audition with a production company for a film. The audition was immediately following my Best Buy audition, which may have explained my hurried look. At any rate, I left the Best Buy audition with thirty minutes to get to the other side of northeast for the film audition. I arrived [...]

On Thursday I had an audition for a Best Buy print ad. My agent sent me the following: “Please do not go to this audition looking like a model. She needs “typical” college guys that would be hanging out in a dorm.” Gotcha, don’t look like a model. Okay. Here was the shot I took [...]

I had an audition on April 26 for a short film about a man that’s dying of cancer. The copy I had to read for the audition was… difficult to decipher and honestly, I didn’t feel like I could connect with the character. (I suppose that’s ultimately the actor’s job though — the ability to [...]

Dear Life, Thanks for today. All afternoon I’ve been trying to remember a time that compares to how great I felt after my audition. Jumping out of a plane, driving a scooter across America, and meeting Chuck “The Mang” Mangione are all proverbially “up there,” but the joy of knowing you “nailed it” is electrifying. [...]