Spotlight Headshots by Nick Gregan
Spotlight if you don’t already know, is the most prestigious and oldest casting organisation in the UK – if not the world.A spotlight headshot is an integral part of the directory. It used to be a series of huge heavy directories where actors, performers and drama students would advertise themselves. Casting directors and agents would scour those directories looking for suitable actors. When visiting the offices of an agent or casting director it was always one of the first things you would see – multiple large volumes broken down into alphabetical sections of actors. Nowadays Spotlight is online and the book no longer exists though Spotlight is still the gold-standard casting directory. To catch the eye of those looking through the directory – of literally hundreds of actors – every actor needs an eye-catching headshot. This is absolutely crucial at the beginning of their career, but why is this so important? An actor at the start of their career is an unknown quantity ...