Self-Tape Your Showreel
Actor development program with Casting Director Peter Rasmussen
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Self-Tape Your Showreel: A 6-Week Online Actor Development Program with Casting Director Peter Rasmussen
Create a standout scene library, sharpen your self-tape skills, and take charge of your career with direct guidance from a working casting director. Designed for committed actors ready to be seen, signed, and cast—this is your next step forward.
Peter Rasmussen - working casting director & renowned acting coach.
Peter brings to this program his unique perspective - he’s not only a casting director, but also an experienced actor and internationally respected acting coach. Peter offers clear, actionable guidance that will elevate your self-tapes and strengthen your overall craft. His deep industry knowledge comes from over 25 years working both in front of and behind the camera.
Who Is This Program Suitable For?
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Actors needing a better scene library/showreel to show casting directors, producers and directors what roles they are suitable for.
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Actors seeking representation. Learn to showcase your own work in a way that gets agents excited about representing you.
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Actors wanting expert guidance on their next steps to a successful acting career.
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Actors wanting the ability to submit for interstate and international productions.
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Actors getting overlooked - not getting enough auditions or always asked to audition for the same bland roles?
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Actors wanting to get ‘audition fit’ with private coaching and feedback from a casting director each week.
Great Self-Tapes Are How Roles Are Cast
Over 70% of first-round auditions are requested via self-tape. Actors must be able to consistently deliver confident, captivating self-tapes to give themselves the best possible chance of getting the role.
Learn to submit yourself for the roles you want.
With this course you will harness the creative freedom, flexibility and control self-taping provides actors. This program won't just change the way you audition - it will change your acting career.
Dates and Contact Hours:
Start Date: Thursday July 17th 2025.
Self-Tape Your Showreel does not have strict contact hours. This program provides personalised and flexible study options via our easy to use online platform.
Assignments are set each week and feedback on your work is filmed and sent directly to you for your convenience.
Your personal coaching consults with Peter will be booked in at a time that suits you - you are able to choose from a list of available times and days.
Course Cost:
Total Fee: $476 (Limited Time 20% Off Sale Price)
Payment Plans Available at Checkout for your convenience - Afterpay, Klarna or Paypal Pay-In-4.
Places strictly limited to ensure a high level of personal attention.
If you have any questions about this program please send us an email.
Student Testimonials
“Selftape Your Showreel is your opportunity to receive helpful feedback from an actual casting director and multiple opportunities to get it right in an encouraging environment. Peter’s instructions will challenge and empower you in all the right ways. This course is a gym for your acting ability so the next time you need to flex your muscle you WILL be ready. ”
“I have recently completed Peter Rasmussen's Self-Tape Your Showreel course. It is a very thorough course where you will receive very constructive feedback each week after submitting your scenes. At the end of the course, you will able to choose with Peter's advice which scenes are best suited to put on your showreel. I highly recommend doing this course as you will benefit enormously.”
“I just completed Peter's Self-Tape your Showreel program and I can safely say that this has been a transformative experience for me! As a complete beginner in acting, this workshop provided the best possible start I could have wished for. In just six weeks, I managed to uncover my acting abilities and witnessed remarkable improvement, all thanks to Peter's expertise.”
“I found the course very helpful! The structure made it easy to follow and since I didn’t know much about framing, lighting or backgrounds, I learned a lot. The weekly feedback on improvements was super helpful too and I loved having so many scene options to choose from, it made my search easier! ”
“Not only is Peter an amazing teacher, he is also a real ally in championing his students all the way to reaching their goals. I simply couldn’t have gotten where I am today without his help and guidance.”
Emily Weir, Actress: Home and Away.
“Peter's Self-Tape Your Showreel course is a great way to get back into acting classes & build a good self-tape routine. Thanks to Peter's critiques, I am now much more confident in my home self-tape set-up & have learnt some new acting techniques that make self-tape scenes much easier to tackle.”
“I am very happy with the Showreel Peter helped me produce. Peter's informative and enlightening feedback and support lead to many positive changes in my self-tape work. Thank you Peter!”
In this personalised program we will:
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Create a scene library of great short scenes to promote yourself as an actor.
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Clarify what roles suit you and discover where you fit in the casting landscape.
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Show Casting Directors, Agents, Directors & Producers you're the right actor for the job.
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Learn professional audition and self-tape skills.
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Learn the casting process from a working casting director.
FAQ's with Peter Rasmussen
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Don't Showreels have to be professionally filmed?
Nope. We’re not really sure where this myth came from - but it’s definitely false. How are you supposed to get professional roles if you need to have already had professional roles to get the professional roles? A lot of actors get caught up in this chicken and the egg conundrum. Plain and simple - all you need is your best work filmed so that you can show the people who matter.
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Should I hire a professional crew to film my Showreel for me, is that better?
If you have the money you're free to do so, but I personally don’t advise it. Paying someone thousands of dollars to film a ‘one and done’ showreel implies your acting work isn’t going to grow or improve. In today’s casting landscape there is no way to avoid self taping if you want to book regular acting work. You need to regularly add new work to show your best acting work.
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Who will read for my audition if I’m self taping?
We provide you with a private page to contact other actors in our network to help each other online or in person. During this course I also show you multiple easy techniques to deal with not having a reader available.
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Will I have access to the course after it’s over?
Yep - you keep it all. There’s loads of resources you’ll want to come back and check in on.
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I have misgivings about online courses
Yep, I hear you. Actors are typically social creatures, we like to get in a room and feel the vibe. We all picture ourselves auditioning in person but the reality is this isn’t usually how it happens these days. This course shows actors how to put their personality across through a self tape and zoom audition, just like you will have to when auditioning for professional roles.
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I've never self-taped before - will I be able to do this course?
Yes! You'll come out of this course confident about submitting self-tapes.
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I don't own a film camera - can I still do this course?
Of course! Working actors deliver great self-tapes on their phone. And no, the phone doesn't even need to be the latest model.
About Peter:
Peter Rasmussen is an Industry leading Casting Director and Acting Coach with over 25 years of industry expertise.
With over 25 years of industry experience, Peter prides himself on providing creative and innovative Casting to all types of productions - from Feature Films to Commercials. Some of his casting credits include AACTA nominated The Butterfly Tree and Celeste, as well as working on many television shows including Neighbours, Packed to the Rafters, Sea Patrol, H20 – Just add water, The Doctor Blake Mysteries and the Underbelly Movies Files.
Peter has studied and draws on various techniques from Lee Strasburg, Ivanna Chubbuck, Eric Morris, Uta Hagan, Sanford Meisner, Robert Cohen, Mark Travis, Practical Aesthetics and Howard Fine. His classes are highly sought after around Australia, and has taught at major schools including the Queensland University of Technology – Fine Arts Program, Griffith Film School, Queensland Conservatorium’s Performing Arts Programme, The Howard Fine School and the Melbourne Acting Academy.
His students frequently go on to international success in lead roles.
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