College Theatrical Resume

Tarhunt
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:24:59 +0000

soozie:

First, a technical issue. I supply my agent with printed resumes that are blank on the back except for the additional photos. I then send him several electronic files organized by type of work and date, so that he can always use the appropriate one and the latest one. Assuming he doesn’t submit them electronically, or that a client hasn’t downloaded my photo off the website, he prints them out there, which he feels is much easier than keeping filing cabinets full of alternate resumes and then hand stapling them.

So, you can see that it’s not necessary to have hand-stapled resumes in order to have variable resumes.

Now, I find this quote of your surprising.



The point I was making earlier is that you seemed to be saying that printed resumes on the back of a head shot was THE way to go and that staples are antiquated.



I went back over what I’d posted and I don’t know where you got this.

Here’s my original post:



I use a printed, 8 x 11 (sic) headshot with, on the back, six smaller photos of me in various guises. I print directly onto the back of the resume photo. Everyone I know does the same thing. I have never had any professional director complain.

Having said that, we’re not talking about professionals here. We’re talking about college theater departments. I’d ask Kat or Coach if I were you.



Here’s another:



Now that you can print on the back of an 8 x 10 photo, this (having the paper fall off) is no longer even a consideration as far as I’m concerned. You can do away with the paper altogether.



Hardly sounds like I’m saying there’s only one way to do it. Sounds to me like I’m just saying that there are advantages to printing.

Here’s another:



Truthfully, I don’t know of anyone who attaches a paper resume to the back of a photo anymore. I did talk to some people from New York who said that some directors like to write on the paper, but it seems as easy to me to write on the back of the photo.



Sounds to me like I said I don’t know anyone who attaches paper to the back of a photo anymore (and I don’t) but that I’d heard from New York actors that it’s done there, at least sometimes.

Here’s another quote:



I don’t think there’s any problem stapling a resume to the back of a head shot. It’s just a bit old-fashioned.



Seems to me like I said, very clearly, that there’s nothing wrong with stapling. It doesn’t seem to me that I was saying “that’s the only way to do it.”

Here’s another quote:



As I said, it’s best to talk to her agent about what’s most appropriate for New York.



I seem to have made a statement like this many times. I just don’t see how that’s the same as saying I had THE way. Do you?

Then, I said this:



What’s really odd about this is that New York seems to be stuck in the 80s. I wonder if it’s because Reproductions has been around so long, and very few places like it were available elsewhere. So, the rest of us adopted new technology and New York didn’t?

Seriously, if someone from where I live were to use a photo process resume photo and staple a resume to the back, it would look very, very quaint.



All I was saying was that it’s odd to be using old tech and wondered if it had to do with the fact that everyone there is used to using a single vendor that didn’t adopt new tech as fast as it was adopted other places. Doesn’t seem like I was saying I had THE way, to me.



Once again, I find the practice of physically stapling a sheet of paper to the back of a resume a bit antediluvian in an age when it’s so easy to print a fresh resume on the back and not have to risk having the paper become attached.



And I DO find this practice bizarre. But that doesn’t mean it’s not the common way some places, as I have already said, or that other ways don’t work. I just don’t get why one would want to send messages by carrier pigeon when there’s a telephone available. But, everyone should suit themselves.