College Theatrical Resume

soozievt
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:28:32 +0000

Tarhunt, I am clearly befuddled by your post #84. I never presumed that you don’t have a theater background or do theater work. To the contrary, I have read your posts on CC for a long time and know you have a background in acting and I believe you teach at a university (though I am not sure if you teach theater). I know that you continue to work in acting, including theater. I know you have experience with film and voiceovers. I can assure you I was never remotely questioning your LEVEL of acting skills. I was commenting that many here are discussing MUSICAL THEATER which, correct me if I am in error, is not your MAIN area of acting work. And I was also saying that many here are discussing either college BFA auditions OR professional musical theater auditions in New York. I believe you may be from the western half of the country, is that right? And so I was never dismissing your procedures, nor your experience whatsover. I was sharing what I know and observe and then reading what you know, do, and observe and seeing where there were some differences. I didn’t think one way or the other was RIGHT. To the contrary, I believed that both ways are acceptable and used in various types of acting work or markets. I initially got the impression that you were saying staples were a bad idea. I didn’t read others saying that your way was wrong. I thought and assumed that we were each sharing our experiences. You also seemed to be putting down the reprinting process that I shared that we used as well. I started to wonder if using Reproductions, which is widely known in the theater industry in NYC, or if stapling the resume, which my own kid does and is what I have observed, was wrong, based on reading your posts considering you are a professional actor.

I never said or thought what you were doing was wrong or certainly not less experienced. I am not an actor. YOU are. I shared our own experiences and those which I have observed in musical theater, colleges, and in New York. I even said I learned something new from you about putting a resume through a printer at home.

I also get uncomfortable reading put downs of a college faculty member here and classifying her ideas as “absurd” or “ridiculous” and welcome all experiences, yours too. You also made an assumption that she said printing on the back was “wrong” when she never said that or meant it.

Now you are also assuming I haven’t heard of these LORT theaters and to the contrary, I have indeed heard of them. I don’t need anyone to vouch for your experience as I was NEVER questioning it in the first place. In fact, I KNEW you were an Equity actor. I didn’t NEED to question your experience. I simply observed that the process you have used or see in your work and where you live may differ than in the East or in Musical Theater and so I was offering another way and got the feeling that you said the way we do things is antiquated and I wasn’t sure and started to wonder after that. I never said anything negative about your way and in fact, think both ways are acceptable practices.

I also would never use “ONLY” in reference to an on camera actor. Why would I think that? Theater acting isn’t BETTER than on camera acting! They are just different!

So, you are making assumptions about what I was thinking when none of those assumptions are truly the case. I apologize if I was misunderstood in some fashion based on what you are now posting that is making me wonder how you got that impression from me but thanks for sharing and I hope I have clarified what I really did mean in my posts. Thank you.