The Musical Theatre Audition Book Guide

Unmistakably you

How to build an audition book that shows your casting lane, in the room and on tape.

The Musical Theatre Audition Book Guide by Ashlee Espinosa, showing the cover and the top four songs page

What’s inside

  • Why your audition is a first date, and how to answer “what kinds of shows do you do?”

  • The two layers of your book: your core book and your full rep book

  • Your top four songs, and the job each one does

  • How to match the world of the show, not just the show

  • What changes between the room and a self-tape

  • How to set up your casting profile clips, step by step

  • A quick check to run before you add another song

This guide is for you if

  • Your book is full of great songs, but you’re not getting called back

  • You’re not sure what to put on your Actors Access profile or your reel

  • You were taught to fill categories, and the roles you’re going in for don’t call for those songs

  • You want your material to show who you are now


Auditions aren’t about range. They’re about recognition.