Actor Genie

Actor Genie is a specialized career management application designed exclusively for actors, created by veteran Hollywood casting director Heidi Levitt who has cast films including The Soloist, Erin Brockovich, and Ali. The app was born from Levitt's firsthand observation of the organizational challenges actors face in managing auditions, contacts, submissions, and the myriad details of a professional acting career. Unlike generic productivity tools that actors often repurpose for career management, Actor Genie is purpose-built for the specific workflow and information needs of working performers. The app addresses the reality that a professional acting career generates an enormous volume of data — audition details, callback information, agent communications, casting director preferences, wardrobe choices, and career milestones — that becomes increasingly difficult to manage without a dedicated system.

The audition tracking functionality is the core feature of Actor Genie, allowing actors to log every audition with detailed information including the project name, casting director, role description, sides received, wardrobe worn, callback status, and outcome. This comprehensive tracking creates a searchable database of your entire audition history, which becomes increasingly valuable over time as patterns emerge about which types of roles you book most consistently, which casting directors call you back repeatedly, and how your audition volume and booking rate change across seasons and years. The app prompts you to record information that you might otherwise forget, ensuring that important details are captured while they are fresh. The audition log also serves as documentation of your professional activity, which can be useful for agent meetings, career assessments, and tracking your progress toward specific career goals.

Contact management is another key feature, allowing actors to maintain organized records of the casting directors, agents, managers, coaches, and other industry professionals they interact with throughout their careers. The app stores contact information alongside notes about each person's preferences, communication history, and your relationship context, creating a personalized industry directory that reflects your specific professional network. This feature recognizes that the acting industry is built on relationships, and that maintaining accurate, accessible information about the people you work with is a competitive advantage. The contact database integrates with the audition tracking system, so you can quickly see which casting directors have brought you in most frequently and what projects you have auditioned for with each office.

Actor Genie includes calendar and scheduling features that help actors manage the complex logistics of a career that involves auditions, callbacks, bookings, classes, self-tape deadlines, and personal commitments that must all be coordinated. The app provides reminders for upcoming auditions, callback windows, and submission deadlines, reducing the risk of missed opportunities that can result from the chaotic scheduling demands of professional acting. The scheduling tools are designed to accommodate the irregular and often last-minute nature of acting work, where audition appointments may arrive with only hours of notice and callback schedules can shift unexpectedly. Integration with the audition tracking and contact management features means that scheduling information is linked to the broader context of each opportunity, giving actors a comprehensive view of their professional activity.

The app also offers career tracking tools that allow actors to monitor their earnings, expenses, and tax-relevant information throughout the year, simplifying the financial management challenges that are particularly acute for performers with irregular income from multiple sources. Actors can track union dues, headshot expenses, class tuition, travel costs, and other career-related expenditures alongside booking income and residual payments, creating a financial picture that is useful for both day-to-day budgeting and year-end tax preparation. The career statistics features provide visualizations and summaries of your professional activity over time, helping you identify trends, set goals, and make data-driven decisions about your career development. The ability to see your career data in aggregate provides a perspective that is difficult to achieve when you are immersed in the day-to-day demands of audition preparation and job hunting.

Actor Genie is available as a paid app through the Apple App Store, with pricing that reflects its specialized functionality and professional-grade features. The app is priced as a one-time purchase rather than a recurring subscription, which distinguishes it from many modern software products that require ongoing monthly or annual payments. The one-time purchase price is modest relative to other professional acting expenses like headshots, coaching, and union dues, making it an accessible investment for actors at most career stages. There are no additional in-app purchases required to access the full functionality of the app after the initial purchase. Compared to using generic productivity apps like spreadsheets, note-taking tools, or calendar apps to manage your acting career, Actor Genie provides a more integrated and purpose-built experience at a reasonable cost. Relative to other actor-specific apps and tools on the market, Actor Genie's combination of casting director pedigree and comprehensive feature set provides strong value for the price.

Actor Genie is the right tool for working actors who want a dedicated, purpose-built system for managing the organizational demands of a professional acting career and who appreciate the credibility of a product designed by a respected casting director. It is particularly valuable for actors who are building active audition schedules and need a reliable system for tracking the details of each opportunity, maintaining industry contacts, and analyzing career patterns over time. Actors who are early in their careers and establishing professional habits will benefit from starting with a purpose-built tracking system rather than trying to retrofit generic tools later. If you are an Android user, you will need to look for alternative solutions until or unless the app expands its platform availability. Actors who have already built comprehensive career management systems using other tools may find less value in switching to Actor Genie, though the specialized features may still offer advantages over generic alternatives. For the modest one-time investment, Actor Genie provides organizational tools that can improve your professional effectiveness and help you approach your career with the data-driven discipline that distinguishes consistently working actors from those who rely on memory and intuition alone.

Download Actor Genie and commit to logging every audition from day one, as the app's value increases exponentially with the amount of data you enter — a comprehensive audition history spanning months and years becomes an invaluable career resource. Take time during the initial setup to enter your existing contacts, including casting directors, agents, managers, coaches, and other industry professionals, so that the contact database is useful from the start rather than gradually built over time. Develop the habit of entering audition information immediately after each audition while the details are fresh, as waiting even a day can cause you to forget wardrobe details, room dynamics, and callback information that might prove important later. Review your career statistics monthly to identify trends in your audition volume, callback rate, and booking patterns, and use these insights to inform conversations with your agent or manager about career strategy. Use the expense tracking features consistently throughout the year rather than scrambling to reconstruct information at tax time, as real-time financial tracking saves hours of work and reduces the risk of missing legitimate deductions. Explore all of the app's features during your first week of use, as actors often discover functionality they did not initially realize was available and that addresses needs they had been managing less efficiently with other tools.