An
acting audition
is essentially a job interview for an actor. The
acting audition
allows the actor to do a brief performance so that a
casting panel or casting director can decide whether
or not an actor is right for an acting role. The
acting audition
may be in the form of a "cold reading", where he or
she is given a script and asked to perform lines from
that script. The
acting audition
my also come in the form of a monologue, where the
actor is asked to perform lines that are rehearsed
before the audition.
