This is a national casting website. I was about to submit for a project, but for the amount of personal information I am providing I would like to know if they are legit and if they have been known to cast jobs. If anyone knows about this site or would be willing to take a quick look, I would greatly appreciate it!!
http://www.exploretalent.com

Check out the following links for more info about ExploreTalent.com:

"Rip Off Report" Complaint on Explore Talent #1

"Rip Off Report" Complaint on Explore Talent #2

"Star Search Casting" message-board forum on Explore Talent problems

Review of Explore Talent on "Yahoo Answers"

Back Stage's readers sound-off about Explore Talent

A Google search will turn up even more complaints . . .

-- Luke
National Casting Editor
Back Stage

HOLY COW! Thanks!! Glad I didn't enter anything.

Noooooo! A total ripoff.

I actually use them and I would say not worth the money but not horrible depending on what your looking for. I have gotten alot of stuff for student films and short films and stuff like that.

As far as paid stuff, theres not much of it but I have gotten some promotional work from it which basically paid for it.

You can submitt online for student films and others TOTALLY free on mandy.com or for a small fee on nycastings.com. we have gotten quite a few auds for films thru those two sites. DO NOT use explore talent

Yes, Explore Talent is a legitimate casting audition website. My daughter has been with them for about 1 month. She got her first audition for a theatre play at the University of Riverside. She will be going to her 2nd call back audition this coming weekend. This is a great site to search for casting notices and auditions. They also allow you to set-up your profile and resume. I would say they are very similar to BackStage.com. Before I registered with Explore Talent, I contacted the acting (OC John Casablaca Modeling & Acting Center)school my daughter attends to verify if they're a legit company. Their website address is www.ocjcstudis.com

Most of the castings on Explore Talent are either expired or no pay. Many are for community theaters and can be found elsewhere on the net for free. And if John Casablancas is touting it, that's reason enough to run for the hills. Tney, along with JRP are the two biggest scam "schools" going, IMHO.

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Before I registered with Explore Talent, I contacted the acting (OC John Casablaca Modeling & Acting Center)school my daughter attends to verify if they're a legit company. Their website address is www.ocjcstudis.com

*can open, worms crawl out*


CSilvera, GO!

mwahahahahahah transfer girl!

I've used this site and found some auditions on it that are also in Backstage. However, they never provide all of the information, even though we are members. They'll give you the time and not the place, for example. It's pretty frustrating.

Do what I did if you have some doubts, go to the better business bureaur website and see if any formal complaints have been made. I did that for these guys and another one that won't stop sending me e-mails and found most of their complaints are about payments. They got a pretty low rating so I'd avoid them if I were you.

THANK YOU This I why I love this site. Twice I've been saved from blowing money on bad list sites.
Explore Talent and GOGIFTS.
Cant wait for Ron RICHARDS to C/B and try to sell me. hahahahahah I plan on screwing with him for a while as I did Sarah from GoGifts.

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Originally posted by dramamama:
Most of the castings on Explore Talent are either expired or no pay. Many are for community theaters and can be found elsewhere on the net for free. And if John Casablancas is touting it, that's reason enough to run for the hills. Tney, along with JRP are the two biggest scam "schools" going, IMHO.

Well, I have reservations about your opinion about JRP...since I work at one, but I do agree that explore talent is a waste of time and money. I've seen people drop a lot of money with explore talent, and they haven't gotten anything out of it. There are plenty of free sites that offer the same thing.

I wouldn't use ExploreTalent.com especially if J. Casablanca recommends it. JCB is a well known scam artist.