For over 40 years Jean St. James has been making an impact helping actors get noticed and get booked. As an award-winning actor herself, she has been where you are.

Her passion is that every single actor that comes to Don't Shoot Yourself (DSY) Productions leaves knowing, whether you booked or not, you knocked it out of the park with a winning audition. 

Actors are often asked to create a character, learn lines, and produce a winning performance complete with the all-important technical aspects of a strong audition in record breaking time. That’s where we come in.

DSY Productions has what you need to help you get that winning audition. Every project has its own unique flavor, rhythm and style that is important to embody when you audition for it. This is where DSY Production’s trained technicians and coaches benefit YOU. We give you that special spark or insight to a line reading that will create a more compelling audition.

As an unpaid professional auditioner (at least that’s what it feels like, right?), you have to give it your all. Do the work, learn the lines, live the role!

We collaborate with you to create all the elements and layers – the scene, the roles, the emotions, and the beats for that creative experience.  We help you make the audition yours and give your character the physicality it needs. Together we figure out how to get the levels in there that make YOU pop.  Be the best you can be; and make your audition the best it can be.

We put our heart into it so that at the end of your audition experience with DSY Productions, you will feel great, THAT IS THE WIN!!  And if you book it, it’s a DOUBLE WIN!!

It’s important to know, all this work will not go unnoticed.  
Casting directors do not forget good performances!
As Arnold Schwarzenegger says, “I’ll be back!!”