Jul 9, 2026 · 22 min · 12 segments
For years I told actors something that may surprise you. I used to say: "Being completely memorized isn't the most important thing." And for a long time I believed that. Today? My thinking has…
Jeff DreisbachHost
Not because they're showing off, because they can stop thinking about the words and start living inside the scene.
But first, this is that moment of the podcast where I get to say thank you for tuning in to the podcast.
Thank you so much to the Broadway Podcast Network for hosting me and for all of the sponsors that continue to support the podcast.
If you could, please go to the website, castingactorscast, all one word, dot com.
There you're going to find information about my new book that's available, I have a course that's available, and that's all on the website.
If you go to that form that says, Dive into the Talent Pool, you're going to find that there's a couple of freebies for you.
I think you're going to really love it because it really does seem to help a lot of actors who are interested in moving into that particular arena.
So listen, if you like taking notes or you hear a podcast and you think, gosh, I'd really love to kind of have that in writing, these are the show notes that I use to produce the podcast.
And they're... available to you, absolutely free of charge, just by kind of checking out the website and going to Jeff's Jots, the blog.
So I'm just making as much information and resources available to you as possible.
Having been an actor for over 20 years and now casting for the past 16 years, I'm trying to give back those things that weren't given to me when I was an actor.
And really, I'm interested more than anything else into helping those actors with information that's going to make them feel more confident and more comfortable.
Not because they're showing off, because they can stop thinking about the words and start living inside the scene.
But first, this is that moment of the podcast where I get to say thank you for tuning in to the podcast.
Thank you so much to the Broadway Podcast Network for hosting me and for all of the sponsors that continue to support the podcast.
If you could, please go to the website, castingactorscast, all one word, dot com.
There you're going to find information about my new book that's available, I have a course that's available, and that's all on the website.
If you go to that form that says, Dive into the Talent Pool, you're going to find that there's a couple of freebies for you.
I think you're going to really love it because it really does seem to help a lot of actors who are interested in moving into that particular arena.
So listen, if you like taking notes or you hear a podcast and you think, gosh, I'd really love to kind of have that in writing, these are the show notes that I use to produce the podcast.
And they're... available to you, absolutely free of charge, just by kind of checking out the website and going to Jeff's Jots, the blog.
So I'm just making as much information and resources available to you as possible.
Having been an actor for over 20 years and now casting for the past 16 years, I'm trying to give back those things that weren't given to me when I was an actor.
And really, I'm interested more than anything else into helping those actors with information that's going to make them feel more confident and more comfortable.
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