What goes in a resume?

Question

Im auditioning for a film and they want a resume and i was wondering what went in it?

Answer 1

While a lot of people had good ideas about content (start with you most recent/most important roles and work down towards your earliest roles. Education actually goes in a separate section on the page), they are very WRONG about the format.

I work in professional theatre and the format for resumes is very different, as is the information they want. When you list your roles, list the role/character name, the name of the show, which company produced it, and the month/year it was performed (if it spans several months/years, put the entire range down).

You'll also want to put down any dance, vocal, musical, stage combat, or any other special skills you might have. The important thing to realize (and you'll quickly find out if you check out the small sampling of links I've included) is unlike the business world, there is no standard format for a theatre resume. They all follow the same guidelines and posses the same information, but may be laid out slightly differently.

You'll notice many actors will put 'stage age' and physical attributes such as hair and eye color, height, and weight. This is done especially when one is mailing one's resume in and may not actually see the person in charge of casting. Hair/eye color is important because (the only thing that's standard about an actor's resume) the resume is one page, one side, and printed on the back of a black and white head shot (you can do-it-yourself as an amateur, but should eventually have it professionally done).

I hope that was helpful and do please look at the links below.

Answer 2

A resume is a summary or brief outline of your acting/drama career so far.List the shows,plays,films that you have appeared in and the role that you played.An idea of when this occurred and the director might help.Also state any formal professional training you have had.Do you work for an agency?They will help you compile a resume.It is rather like a CV for other types of jobs.

Answer 3

This is where you put applicable experience and training. It should also include vital statistics such as age, height, hair color, eyes, etc. It is suggestable, if you have enough experience to list mainly roles in known companies, and ones where you had a speaking role. Generally chorus roles will not amount to much unless it was in a huge venue, like Broadway. It should also have contact information, and any groups you belong to such as AFTRA or SAG. Limit yourself to one page, if they want to see more, they will ask for it. Generally though they will have thousands of resumes and headshots to go through and they will not ask for more information. You should generally staple your resume to the back of a 8x10 headshot and put a single staple in the top corners. This should go into a neat folder with a return address incase they should decide to return it (which you can expect them to almost never do) You should also include any professional training which is applicable to acting IE) AADA, graduate etc. List special skills like accents, ballet, karate also. If you would like to see a sample I included one as the reference, it is a good example.

Answer 4

resume is another word for curriculum vitae which is used mainly by the Americans,
all it means is that they want your past work experience since leaving school up to the present or last job, so what you put in the resume is all the jobs that you have done and any hobbies or interests that you might have,
good luck with your acting career.

Answer 5

Experience!
What type of acting you have done in your past.
Your qualities.
I'm thinking the same as auditioning for a musical or a play.

Answer 6

well, you don't lie like the first answerer said.On a resume, you put any acting experience and training you have had. You can also put things like interests,special skills,and anything else that you think would help you.

Answer 7

you ought to in ordinary terms state previous jobs on your resume that makes you stand out and look solid. usually staffing companies do no longer ask why you have no longer worked for the period of a term. in the event that they do, only tell them which you have been focusing on college, so which you probably did no longer paintings. this is their interest to locate you paintings because of the fact they provide cost from referring you.

Answer 8

Shows you've been in - they don't want to know about you working as a checkout girl at Tesco.

If you have any official training, that goes in at the top. It's basically a CV, just with theatrical experience.

Answer 9

What when and why you did certain jobs your education especially any that relates to your job application.Your background in relation to this film your experience in film making from an actor side.~~

Answer 10

List everything. They want to know how reliable you are. You have to realize that shooting (even a low budget film) is very expensive and they need to know you are dependable. Obviously you need to put in all of your acting experience.