College Theatrical Resume

Tarhunt
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:35:47 +0000

soozie:

When I state that stapling a resume to the back of a photo would be very quaint where I live (and note the “where I live”), I was simply making a statement of fact. I think I’ve mentioned (and I don’t know if it was this thread or not) that I sit in on a lot of auditions with a good friend of mine who’s a director, and we get those kinds of resumes, but usually not from anyone who’s very experienced. Around here, it’s just a fact that those kinds of resumes seem quaint.

All kinds of things change in this business, obviously. I no longer do VO demos, for instance, and hand them out on any kind of medium. My demos are all on file on a website and anyone can listen. Almost all my VO auditions are now over the Internet instead of in person, reading specific copy posted there. Like many other VO people, I now do VO work around the country remotely. And, yes, it would seem a bit antediluvian to go back to the old days of having an agent send out tapes (later CDs) and then going to an audition to read copy.