SAG Rolls Out IActor Online Casting

SAG has finally rolled out it’s new IActor online casting service. The IActor service is available only to SAG members with paid up dues.

The fact is that SAG has had IActor ‘up and running’ for the past year…sort of. I’ve had my resume, headshots and video on IActor for many months. But the real roll out to the casting community only occurred last week. Finally! So, let’s see how it goes. Will it be of any benefit to actors? Hopefully it will. It is certainly another tool that attempts to make it easier for casting people to locate the actors they want to consider for a project.

Unfortunately, the actors can’t see the site from the ‘other’ side…what the casting and production side sees. I’d like to be able to search the site and see what the competition has up on IActor and maybe see how I can improve my materials. But that’s not possible. I’d also like to have the site notify me if a casting person ‘tags’ my resume. I wouldn’t expect IActor to inform me of which CD had tagged my materials but it would be nice to know someone is actually using the site and finding my information. I made that suggestion over the weekend at the SAG get together here in Austin.

So, SAG members, if you haven’t signed up for IActor, get going. If you’re ‘SAG eligible’ or waiting for another reason to finally make the plunge into the SAG waters, maybe IActor will give you another reason to consider doing so. Let me know if you’re using IActor as an Actor or casting person and how your experience is going.