Talent Agencies Editing and Proofreading Services

A casting director has ninety roles to fill and four hundred submissions before lunch. What decides whether a client is seen is not the showreel, which will not be opened, and not the credits, which look like everyone else's. It is whether the agent's two-line note answers the question the casting director is holding in their head at that moment, and most notes answer a different one.

We edit what talent agencies produce — submission notes and pitches to casting, client biographies and credit lists, showreel and material descriptions, agency representation agreements and client terms, negotiation and deal correspondence, client-facing career and strategy documents, and the letters that manage expectations after a run of near-misses. Our editors work on writing that gets read in eleven seconds.

The submission note is the agency's core product, and its failure is a paragraph of praise where an argument should be. A casting director is not asking whether an actor is good; they are asking whether this person solves this problem. We work through these so the note names the specific thing about the client that fits this role, since "wonderful actor with great range" is true of the four hundred and distinguishes none of them; so the evidence is a credit or a piece of work where the client has already done the difficult part of the role, given that a casting director is being asked to take a risk and prior evidence is what reduces it; so any hard requirement in the breakdown is addressed directly — the accent, the age range as it reads on camera, the skill, the availability — because an unmentioned requirement is assumed unmet; so availability and conflicts are stated with dates, as a client who cannot do the dates wastes everybody's afternoon; so self-tape material is described with what to watch and where, since a link with no direction gets a fifteen-second scrub; so previous work with the same director or company is mentioned once and without leaning on it; so the note is short enough to read on a phone; and so nothing in it is untrue, because an agency's next hundred submissions depend on this one being reliable. Notes written this way get clients in the room.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including client information, submissions and negotiation correspondence. We are editors rather than agents, casting directors or lawyers, and we offer no view on casting, representation or contracts. What we can do is make the note answer the question being asked.