• When writing your acting resume, always include your complete contact information like your name, address, phone number and email address at the top of the page.
• Always identify your hair, eyes, height, weight, and vocal range details just below your contact information.
• List all of your past acting experiences, whether in film or theater. Write down all important information and details of all productions you’ve been a part of, whether your part was small or big. Whether it’s a movie, theater, or even commercials, make sure to list it. If you have worked with famous actors, directors, and big name theaters and companies, then make sure to include that information. This will help you to attract attention.
• After your Experience section you should list information about your education and training workshops. If you have to make sub-headings then you can, and make sure to write detailed information under each sub-heading that you have. List down all that you have, as this helps a lot.
• If you have received honors or awards then you can include that next to your Education and Training information.
• Think of all your special skills and talents that are relevant to your field of expertise. List these in a separate section.
• Before printing, review your resume again to finalize everything. Make sure to review your resume every now and then and update it too. Keep your resume current.
• And of course, the last step is to print your acting resume on a short sized white sheet of paper for submission.

Just an important note when making your acting resume: don’t make your resume too long. Never write more than two pages, and always tell the truth. Don’t fabricate information just to make your acting resume stand out.

There are of course books, television, shows and radio as well. Although, I must admit that as an industry, the business of story telling via the radio waves has all but disappeared.  Except perhaps for a few specialty channels on Sirius or XM, the golden age of radio story telling is long past.  That’s fine with me, as movies, theater, television, and books have got most of the bases covered for me.  While I do enjoy seeing live theater, I must admit to probably only seeing a dozen  or so productions in my life.  That would include quite a range of live theater though.  Everything from Shakespear, to Phantom Of The Opera, to Josephs Technicolor Dreamcoat to Cats, to Mama Mia to 60’s rock and roll shows.  There all great fun, but just a little expensive to do every day.  Not to mention, I usually have to travel a few hours to see them.

Television on the other hand is a very accessible story telling medium, and one that has several advantages over theater.  First of all it has time.  I mean, a television show can play for years, and that’s a lot of story telling.  Not to mention character development, plot twists, comedic setups, and generally more entertainment.  The theater stage I think is a lot more personal, but has a tough go, when competing against television.

I must admit to liking books and scripts as my personal favorite.  They just take so much time to consume.  There’s no doubt, that by utilizing my own vivid and twisted imagination they can do a lot more with a story.  But sometimes, I just don’t have the team for all that reading.  Unfortunately life is busy.  Movies are great for getting the story across and in an entertaining way.  But, that’s a story for another day.