A casting director watches your tape and feels you needing the job.
That's the second they stop watching.
Your talent was never the question. Neither was your technique.
What they saw was you, trying to get the job.
So...When you let go of needing it — what's left is the only thing that actually books work.
Steal the exact frameworks I used to book 8 Series Regular roles
- No Upset. No stress. No self-doubt.
- Stop dreading the self-tape request.
- A crystal clear system replaces all the guessing.
- A process that works the same way every time you hit record — self-taping becomes your friend, not your enemy.
- Show up natural, grounded, easy on camera — without the tightening, the overthinking, the trying that a lens always catches.
Who's it for?
- Trained actors who are electric in the room but flatten a little on tape
- Drama school graduates who were taught craft, never taught "camera"
- Actors who nail it on stage or in class and go quiet the second it's filmed
- Actors who are well able but still aren't booking enough to prove it
- Actors doing ALL the work — the classes, the submissions, the reels — and still watching it not convert to credits
Who built this system?
I'm Nick Dunning. RADA gave me the craft. An IFTA gave me credibility. 8 Series Regulars and 90+ TV credits gave me the proof. 3,500 professional working actors trust my work
You can learn this inside one hour.
It's distilled into 1 system.
You can use it on your next tape.
It's €37.00 and it has a 14 day money back guarantee
I need to crack the casting director code today
Nobody cared about my self-tapes and I was doing everything right...
Good preparation. Strong choices. Solid training.
Then I stopped trying to "act" and started building my tapes with intention to "change the energy on screen".
Nobody had ever taught me what a self-tape actually needs to do in the first few seconds before casting decides to stay or go.
And then what to do next to keep them watching.
Once I finally got that, I stopped leaving it to chance. Things clicked
Eight Series Regular roles.
Including The Tudors, Hatfield's and McCoys ( 12 Emmys) Da Vinci's Demons and 90+ others...
Distilled into 1 system.
That system is now yours.
I want to give it a go!
The lies you were told about landing Series Regular roles
You shouldn't need months of auditions before you book a series regular role. You should be landing jobs like the casting director already had your name on the list.
Instead you've been told to:
- Take more classes — as if another technique is what's standing between you and the role
- Build your showreel first — as if casting directors are waiting for perfect footage
- Get more credits — as if the industry needs to grant you permission first
- Wait your turn — while the actors who get it are already on set
- None of that explains why the tape isn't landing.
- None of it touches what a casting director is actually clocking in the first moments of your take or what the "meat of your tape is about"
The actors booking Series Regular Work aren't always the most trained in the room.
They're the ones who worked out what casting directors need, and gave it to them.
That's not luck. That's a system.
Get yourself a copy now
What actors say — from coaching results, before this was a course...
A note first: these are results from one-to-one coaching with me, using the same principles that are now built into this course.
Nobody in this section has taken Cracking The Casting Director Code as a course yet — this is the process, before it had a name.
Lochlann used these frameworks
"January, in a time of little work and lacking confidence, I did the work and did the exercises.
Now September, I came across what I'd written - I could hardly believe it.
It read: I see myself... checking messages from a new London agent, a pile of scripts, sides and call sheets in my bag... racing to a studio on Baggot St.
Currently I'm in London working with James Nesbitt on Lucky Man for Sky Atlantic, I have an offer from an agency, I am meeting Debbie McWilliams (casting) on Tuesday for a series regular . My bag is stuffed with call sheets, sides and highlighted scripts.- gave me back my instincts."
Lochlann O'Mearain
Series Regular Outlander, Striking Out, Mystic Knights, Small Town Big Story
Clare Dunne
Clare Dunne
Series Regular Kin, Herself, 500 Miles. Paper Plane (Saoirse Ronan directing debut)
Aidan McCardle
"Nick Dunning has really helped me in my , er, my approach to auditions – getting in the game, in the zone – and I highly recommend him-yeah, he's a great guy, great fellow"
Aidan McArdle
Series Regular, Gallows Law, Mr Selfridge, Beautiful people
Melissa paid off her London rent, went to visit family in Australia and earned over £20,000 after her new approach.
Then she got a commercial.
"I booked 4 jobs , paid off my flat rent, and earned over £20k!!.."
Melissa Philips
Trigger Point (ITV) Gangs of London (Sky Atlantic) Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (Amazon)
Hanni changed her approach and her results
"My whole approach was rusty - This method built a new confidence inside me - I got 3 commercials and 2 American movies shooting here in Cape town"
Hanni Heinrich
Series Regular Resident Evil. Black Beauty, The Fix
Helen did things differently
"I found it good to get into my body, to be open and free, and positive - I think positivity is the main thing I take away -
- just got home from filming Houdini and Doyle - a big new TV series - 2 castings tomorrow and one the day after that -
- on the day I did my big scene - it went really well and I put a lot of that down to the work we did..."
TV credits include roles in BBC's Call the Midwife (as Nurse Hoskins), Casualty, Holby City, EastEnders, Doctors, and the drama series Houdini & Doyle. [1, 2]
Helen Millar
What's actually inside:
THE CORE SYSTEM
Cracking The Casting Director Code: The 1-Hour 2-Take System The complete 60-minute video masterclass.
Rewatch easily before every submission. (€197 value)
21 principles from filmed conversations with actors like -
Ryan Gosling, Anne Hathaway, Hanks, Streep, Cruise and more —
- distilled into 25 things you can USE before your next take. (€47 value)
The Choices That Landed Me Series Regular Roles
The bold, specific creative decisions casting directors remembered — the ones that made them stop the tape and call the director.
Printable, ready to use today. (€137 value)
The two-minute mental prep warm-up used before every take in this system.
The thing that separates an average take from one casting directors pass around the office. (€137 value)
The Ultimate Self-Tape Checklist
One page. Print it, pin it. Every principle in the system, turned into a ruthless pre-submission read-through.
You stop hoping the tape is good and start knowing it.
"I finally got what casting directors are actually looking for." Geraldine McCartney
Let's be real for a second -
I used to dread self tapes - not because I didn't love acting, but because I showed up nervous, stiff and trying to be "perfect."
Every shoot felt forced - I started to hate that my work didn't show them who I really was.
Then one day I stopped trying to please everybody and started getting myself comfortable, talking, laughing, forgetting about the camera, and suddenly the shoot changed - I looked alive. Real.
Now I design every self tape so it makes casting directors feel something from someone who actually looks like me - because it is me.
That's the essence behind Cracking The Casting Director Code.
I'm giving you the keys - so get inside Cracking The Casting Director Code now so you can get casting directors to grab their mobiles and book you.
Regular Price €518-00
Eight Series Regular Roles.
Powerful Frameworks.
One hour.
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€37.00
If this doesn't work for you, you get every cent back. 14 days. I'll make it right, I promise.
Drop me a line at [email protected]
Students are already excited about this course!!
Real actors. Real results.
Series Regular: Vivian Mitchell
Harry Wild Season 5 (AMC/ Acorn TV)
New BBC Comedy. Mrs Browns Boys Live Stadium Show. 9,000 in Audience! Death in Benidorm (Channel 5)
Ciara O'Callaghan
" I pressed send without doubting - First time in years" Dennis Dannell
Got my own trailer!
"Since doing this work I've had 9 auditions...
...5 extremely positive responses back and booked 3 Jobs!
...plus I booked a lot of episodes of East Enders.."
Paul Albertson
Series Regular East Enders, Sherlock, King Arthur : Excalibur Rising,
