Where do I go or what website do I use to audition for acting ?

You could try checking the website for your local community theater and see what upcoming auditions they have. Some communities have a single website where all the area theater groups list their upcoming auditions - so you could check for that too. Getting involved in theater and acting can be a great creative outlet and good way to meet people. You can even try volunteering with the theater ushering or helping build a set first if you want to see how that goes.

There are also legitimate casting sites that list casting calls for theater auditions, student films and other low-to-no-pay jobs. There may be a fee to join or to submit to a job found on site and most of the listing will be in larger markets so it can cost some money. Be careful, there are a lot of scam sites that charge alot of money to join, but have listing that are out-of-date or just scams (using auditions as bait to get naive people in and then try to convince them to spend money on other services). The better sites include Backstage, Actors Access and Casting Networks. For most of these listing you'll need to first submit a head shot and acting resume listing your acting training, experience, special skills, union status and maybe links to a show reel if you have one. So they're not really websites that you post an audition on - that's not how the industry works. And again, the stuff listed here that would apply to you would be non-union work in non-professional productions.

If you're asking about things like mainstream movies and TV shows - there is no website to go to. That's not how those things are cast. People invest a lot of money in their productions and they trust that investment to trained and experienced professionals. They don't hold open, online auditions that anyone can go to. For most professional work you have to be invited to audition, usually through an agent.

Here's how that goes - a movie or TV show hires a casting director (CD) to find qualified actors to audition. The CD writes a "breakdown" (a description of the project and the roles to be cast). They make the breakdown available to talent agent (not to the general public). Agents review the breakdowns and submit the appropriate actors for roles. To submit means to send the CD the actor's professional head shot and acting resume. If the CD is interested, they contact the agent to arrange an audition. Of the 2,000-3,000 (or more) or so submissions a CD will get from agents for a role, only about 20-50 actors will actually be invited to audition, And most mainstream shows have agreements with the SAG-AFTRA actor's union and so preference will be given to actors who belong to the union. After all this is show BUSINESS and not some lottery or TV game show. Companies simply aren't searching the country to discover someone off the street and make them a star. (But a ton of scams and rip offs will prey on people who mistakenly think that - so do be careful.)

It's not considered acting experience, but if you live near where they do a lot of filming you can check into being an extra/background actor. Extras are more breathing scenery then actors, so it doesn't require any acting training or experience. You just have to look like what the director wants to create the mood for the scene, be reliable and be flexible. You can check out the extra access website for online listings for extras. The websites I listed above may also have calls for extras. There may be an extra casting company in your area as well. They may charge a registration fee - so you might want to research the company first.

Good luck.

For non-professional work (local TV, student films, indies…), just contact films schools or search on websites such as Backstage.

For theater, contact a local theater and ask if and when you can audition.

For extra work, there are extra agencies. You could look on Backstage.

For professional work (national TV, movies, commercials…), unfortunately that’s not going to happen till after you get a lot of experience and quality training. Professional productions don’t hold open auditions for the general public, these are only for professional actors. That info is given to (good) agents. When there’s casting, the casting director approaches agents they know and trust with a breakdown of the characters they need. Then the agent goes over their list of clients and submits only the ones that may fit those roles. Then some of those clients will be invited to audition.

So you’d need an agent. But you can’t just get an agent. No agent signs beginners or amateurs. Like I said, only highly-experienced and highly-trained people. It takes about a decade of hard work for an agent to consider you. You need experience in non-professional work (such as what I said above) + years of training from a top acting school with respected instructors and yet even more training such as workshops, summer camp, competitions, etc. + years of community theater + you (and your parents, if you’re a minor) need to learn all about the business side + dancing and vocal lessons and anything else you can think of to boost your resume (for example, horseback riding, martial arts, acrobatics, dialects, etc.).

Then and only then someone you’ve worked with and impressed might refer you to a legit agent. That’s how it’s usually done. Or, though less likely to happen, an agent might spot you on a showcase. Or, even less likely to happen, you might land one by cold-querying with your headshots and resume.

If you see an audition for professional work on some website, it's probably a scam. The truth is, this is a business. No one's in this to make your dreams come true. Productions invest a lot of money, they need to know it's in the hands of people who know what they're doing and with evidence of that. Besides, no one has the time to go over thousands or more submissions by amateurs.

But if you just want to do this for fun, you don't need all that training and experience, so go ahead. Otherwise, start working. On the other hand, if you have some unrealistic and immature fantasy about fame and money or being discovered, don't waste your time. The reality is VERY different from what people imagine. Pursue a professional acting career only if you love the craft itself. Right now you don't actually know if it's even for you, you don't really know what acting is. So try it first. Take some acting classes, something low-key. Make sure you actually enjoy it and that you're even good at it. And research, a lot.

You go for an audition AFTER you have an appointment or at an open day