John Stimpson: Director, editor and screenwriter in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Love your company name! You must be a Boston boy. Where's home?

Hello! I'm a Massachusetts based filmmaker with some very cool projects cooking. Looking to connect with industry folks, since where I live, I'm the only one doing what I do!

Hi John. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 400,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.

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Hello John -

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So we are in the process of casting for a short film (first stage is video audition with provided sides). as it’s our first own audition, we just thouht we’d ask for advice from you guys we just got back from one of our candidates who told us she --instead of doing the provded sides -- ’chose’ to do other, completely non related monologue instead. Upon review of the ’audition’, it even goes against everything our character represents initial thought... don’t mind us, we just wrote the characters...how would we know what they should sound like? TOTES understand how you feel these unrelated pieces of dialogue will make us see you’re right for the job... so yes we feel a bit of frustration and -since candidate chose to do own lines instead of provided ones- makes us wonder if candidate would be not-the-greatest at memorizing lines So here’s our question: if you hold an audition (whether you do it via video or P2P) and one of the candidates pulls a stunt like that, would it be an imediate ’no’, ask them to explain and base upon their explenation, would you give em the chance to come back to you with provided sides or how would you handle it?