WELCOME BERMAN/SACKS TALENT
Berman/Sacks Talent follow our policies:
Theatrical Talent must have an Actors Access account. First two photos are free. Resume and profile must be input and updated by talent. Please email actorsaccess.com to add your account for our use. Do not misrepresent your union status or skills on your profile. If you are a Commercial Talent, we will deactivate your account for us on Actors Access until we need to use it.
Berman/Sacks Talent Agency - no exceptions. Details found at http://breakdownexpress.com/content/aboutvideo.html. Auditions that come through breakdown express (Agents' version of Actors Access) can only be confirmed, declined or a time change request made directly through Berman/Sacks. We will email you the details of your auditions. We will text you if we do not receive a response from you within the hour. We will call you on your cell phone if there is still no response from you about your audition.
agency. BOOKING OUT You are required to book out with us in advance for days you cannot audition or work in acting. One week advance notice is preferred. Declining auditions without booking out in advance is a violation of this policy. CASTINGFRONTIER.COM Commercial Talent must have an account with Casting Frontier. Please sign up and add Berman/Sacks as your agency. Please print out the bar code and take it with you to all commercial and print auditions. COMMISSIONS
20% commission of the gross (before taxes) payment made to you for any non-union/print booking, and bill your employers to collect your payments for non-union/print projects. Berman/Sacks is never your employer. Unless you are hired, we are working for free which is not something we enjoy. We require the best tools from our Talent to help them get hired. It is never a good idea for Talent to make excuses as to why they cannot invest in their own careers but expect us to continue to do so. (Invest means accepting and attending auditions, studying, obtaining excellent photos, workshops, demos, postcard mailings, etc.) CONTACT Unless about an audition or booking, please keep contact initiated by talent to a minimum and send it after 4pm, Monday - Friday. Refrain from sending e-mails on the weekends unless it is about an upcoming audition or a booking. Any email directing us to perform a task for you or asking us for a favor is not appreciated. We DO NOT accept emails telling us what role to submit you on, what show you must get in on, or regurgitating old breakdowns. Emails that you did a workshop with a specific casting director are not that helpful since all our Talent workshops with all the casting directors. We do appreciate contact about directors you know personally who are currently casting, a casting director that specifically told you to have us contact them directly about you, or local hire information about out of town projects where you have housing. CONTRACTS All Berman/Sacks Talent must have a written unexpired contract on file to be represented and before submissions will begin or continue. The link to contracts and documentation is listed at the bottom of this policy page. DAY RATE If you are more than scale plus 10% for union work, or have a minimum day rate for non-union work, you must let us know. This would be based on what you were paid for your last booking prior to joining Berman/Sacks. FAN MAIL Fan mail is currently forwarded to Talent as a courtesy. Should this become too expensive, Talent will be asked to reimburse postage for their fan mail or to swing by the office to pick it up. FAX Our fax number will be given out on an as-needed basis. Scanned documents sent via email are preferred. FEEDBACK We contact casting directors to get feedback on theatrical auditions for certain projects, if a Talent has not been getting any callbacks, and also upon specific Talent requests. However, if casting tells us any Talent is "too green," the Talent is not ready to work with Berman/Sacks. HARDCOPIES If you mail us anything you’d like returned, you must provide a self-addressed stamped envelope with appropriate postage. Otherwise, it will not be retained. Do not give us anything we have not asked for. We do not have storage space to hold all your old photos, demos, postcards, 4x6’s, etc. We do not want any hardcopies of your demos. We want your demos available on-line at Actors Access (if you are a Theatrical Talent) and/or LA Casting (if you are a Commercial Talent). Hardcopy Resumes: Resumes must have Berman/Sacks’ accurate contact information on them and logo, with personal contact removed. They must be cut down to 8x10 in size, professional in appearance and stapled to the back of your 8x10 photos, two staples top and bottom (or printed or glued to your photos), and taken with you to all of your auditions. You may provide us with 10 hardcopy photos and resumes only if you are a Theatrical Berman/Sacks Talent. LACASTING.COM Commercial Talent must have an LA Casting account. First premiere photo is free and may be swapped out once for free in the first 30 days. The account is free. Resume must be input and updated by talent. All skills and sizes (dress/suit/shoes) must be entered and all profiles updated. To add Berman/Sacks as your agency for commercial, print and/or theatrical, please email LA Casting at change@castingnetworks.com. If you do not have an LA Casting account, please let us know and we will open one for you. We will give you an initial username and password, which you can change at anytime. We do not access your account through your username and password. Do not misrepresent your union status or skills on your profile. Interactive resumes are also available for an additional monthly cost through lacasting.com. Auditions will be emailed to the email account you have on LA Casting. You are responsible for checking your email and confirming on-line for your commercial/print auditions. Text, email or call Berman/Sacks whenever you need to decline an audition or seek a time change. We expect to hear back from you within the hour whenever we contact you about an audition. If we see you have not confirmed on-line, we will send you a text to your cell phone that you have an unconfirmed audition. If we still do not hear back from you, we will call you on your cell phone. MANAGERS Berman/Sacks enjoys working with professional and courteous managers. We will copy your managers on all your audition emails and notify them when a payment is sent to you. Be sure to notify us of the email address of your managers. MESSAGE BOARD There is a message board reserved only for Berman/Sacks Talent to post to one another about links on the web, upcoming shows, photographers, etc. Access to the message board is found on the first page of the website, near the bottom right corner. Berman/Sacks does not recommend photographers, acting classes or coaches. Berman/Sacks Talent may email us if there is a post they would like removed. PASSPORTS All Berman/Sacks Talent must have and maintain active passports. POSTAGE In an effort to reduce unecessary costs, when Talent would like to receive something via mail, Talent must provide a self-addressed stamped envelope. Otherwise, Talent must make an appointment to come into the office for a pick-up. SCRIPTS Scripts are not free to us. Each is purchased at a fee for every script downloaded. Scripts are purchased by us as a courtesy to our talent for leading roles, guest stars and series regular auditions when available. Scripts will not be purchased for SAG Ultra Low projects. Talent can purchase any script on their own via screenplayonline.com. SIDES Theatrical Talent must have a subscription to showfax.com to get their own sides. Commercial Talent must get their own sides from lacasting.com. It is the Talent's responsibility to check to see if sides are available and to get their own sides. If you cannot find your sides after checking on-line, please contact Berman/Sacks. Certain sides for Theatrical Talent can only be obtained via showfax.com with a coded password. These password protected sides will be specifically referenced in the cmail audition sent to Talent. To get coded password protected sides, please call showfax.com at 310-385-6920 and give them the code. If it is after 7:00pm, please email showfax.com at info@actorsaccess.com, and in your email include the project name, role, your name, and the episode code (provided to you on the cmail). TALENT REFERRALS Berman/Sacks accepts referrals from working Berman/Sacks Talent only. Berman/Sacks does not represent the loved ones (unless children), best friends or roommates of its Talent no matter how talented they are - no exceptions. Berman/Sacks will review union talent submissions who email links to on-line accounts and mention a working Berman/Sacks Talent's name as a reference. No phone calls from referred talent please.
All Berman/Sacks Talent must maintain their union memberships in good standing with AFTRA, AEA, SAG/SAG Core, or be on an honorary withdrawal. VALENCIA OFFICE Our Office phone number is 661-362-0784 All meetings at our office are by appointment only. You may drop off anything with our receptionists, Monday through Friday, 9-5. There is free Starbucks coffee in our reception area and free parking. LET'S GET STARTED! CLICK HERE for contracts and required documentation. |
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