Name: Ben Conlon

Highlights

• Despite the absence of any training as an actor, my agent received the following detailed report from a production company subsequent to an unsuccessful audition for the part of playing the role of a Russian Doctor.
  
  ' Unfortunately, we are unable to offer you the role of Dr Zabvine although we would like to emphasize that we were very impressed with your audition. We thought the Russian accent was great and well prepared, the line delivery had a good pace and you also had a strong physical likeness to the image in our heads. Our only comment would be that the general energy was perhaps too controlled and measured for what we envisioned. This is not really a criticism or to say you didn't grasp the notes we gave out, we were simply looking for a very specific, eccentric personality type that even with your strong acting skills is something very difficult to train for. Essentially, we don't believe there was anything you could have done too differently, it was just a subtle detail we were looking for and we enjoyed your audition regardless.'