Posted: 10/12/19 at 12:48pm
I am wanting to bring my 13 year old daughter to the call on Oct. 23rd. However, she is non-equity as she has never done an equity show. How early should she arrive and I suppose it's possible she could not even be seen.
Posted: 10/13/19 at 12:04am
Posted: 10/13/19 at 12:10am
Posted: 10/13/19 at 12:14am
I've never been to an ECC, but I've been to plenty of EPAs as a non-equity person. I don't know if they run ECCs differently, but for an EPA, they won't even begin giving the leftover slots to non-equity people until they get through all of the people on the equity waitlist ("equity alternates"
, THEN get through the entire EMC list (which is usually a lot, especially for big shows - sometimes well over 100 per day). As a non-equity person, I've been turned away far more often than not. A lot of the time, there are so many equity people auditioning that they won't even see EMCs, let alone non-eq.
Now, since I've never been to an ECC, I don't know if maybe they take people in larger groups and thereby raise your likelihood of being seen. Someone else would have to chime in on that to give you accurate info.
Posted: 10/13/19 at 12:16am
Posted: 10/13/19 at 12:36am
Posted: 10/13/19 at 10:31am
I've been told that if you're not Equity, you should arrive as early as humanly possibly to guarantee even the chance of being seen.
Posted: 10/13/19 at 10:37am
Assuming that this is the call where they are specifically seeking performers under the age of 18 I would say all bets are off. It's very rare to run an ECC with that restriction in place, so there's not a lot of history to draw from regarding what expected attendance will be. That being said, considering the scale of this project, I would still expect it to be very well attended and as a non-Equity actor you should plan to get there as early as possible to make sure your daughter is as high as possible on the non-Equity list.
