Acting Résumés
Along with your headshot photos, a good résumé; is essential to your acting career. Utilize our acting resume tips on how you can organize and display your training and experience, which can affect how casting directors view you and whether you'll get the chance to audition.
Your acting résumé; is a one-page summary of your performing experience, skills, and qualifications. Its design and organization must impress its readers and make them want to select you above the hundreds of others that come across a casting director's desk every day.
To find what works, look at as many résumés as you can. Books about résumé writing usually offer dozens of examples. Or ask your actor friends to show you what they've done. You'll quickly get some ideas about what works in an actor resume and what doesn't.
There are certain hard and fast rules: résumés should be neatly typed — never add new credits to your résumé; with a pen. Your résumé; should be the same size as your headshot. Make the type easily readable. Make sure your resume is attached to the photo, with staples on all four corners.
And don't ever lie. Imagine a casting director reading your resume, and seeing a film listed there that he cast — that's a good way not to be hired. CDs have told us this happens more often than you might imagine.
One last bit of advice: Know exactly how much postage goes on your submission. The last thing you want is to see the same envelope you so painstakingly prepared come back due to lack of postage.
LINKS
Cover Letter and Submission Etiquette
Actors may want to think twice before they prepare their next cover letter for their acting resume.
A Select Group's Global Advice
An actor resume should be as specific as possible: "If it doesn't have the location as a theatre or a film company, I automatically figure, 'They did that in class.'"
Online Turnoffs
A trend today is online submissions, which are quick, cheap, and easy.
Promoting Yourself on Video, CD & the Internet
Different techniques for self-promotion.
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