<p>Here's a resume question: For those schools that do NOT specify 'theatre credits during high school' or those schools that say 'list all theatre credits and all roles performed', do you list credits back to middle school (especially if they were regional theaters, title roles, etc.), or do you stick with high school experience only?</p>
<p>Stick with high school…that is what they are really interested in seeing.</p>
<p>If they were professional productions in middle school, I’d leave them in.</p>
<p>Definitely keep Regional professional productions on, no matter how old you were.</p>
<p>I’ll be a transfer student and I’ve been working professionally (non-union, obviously) for over a year. I’m assuming I’ll leave all my credits in (I was homeschooled in high school, therefore all my credits are community theater).</p>
<p>Theater credits* my pro credits are in film, also I did have one role in theater that I was paid for, but I wouldn’t consider it “professional theater”.</p>
<p>My S has some TV and film credits (nothing terribly exciting) and when auditioning for theater productions he usually lists mostly theater on his resume, but then under that he usually lists a few TV/film/industrial jobs just to show that he has had some success in a variety of contexts. For the purposes of college MT program auditioning, should he leave those off and just list theater, or is it OK to keep a few jobs that are other types of acting on there? Also, should he have a separate section for professional regional productions and then a section for for community/school productions, or should he just lump them all together? Thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>I believe he should leave the TV/film/industrial credits on. He should include his community/school productions, provided that there is space. </p>
<p>For theatrical roles, he should list the most impressive roles (or roles with the most professional cachet) first. Then list the rest, in descending order of impressiveness…but all as part of one theatrical list.</p>
<p>I don’t know the answer to your question zebrarunner but if it were me, I’d lump it all together because it takes less space to do that and it is cleaner. And sure, I’d leave the TV and Film credits on it as a one liner. Why not? It’s like listing other related activities (like a dance team, a capella etc.)</p>
<p>I’d be curious to hear the perspective of any of the college reps that read the MT threads. With hundreds of auditions to process, how much attention do you even pay to the production section of the resume vs. the training section? Does the professional vs. amateur distinction factor into your thinking? I’d imagine many students are admitted whose entire production history includes no professional work whatsoever since not everyone makes the time for that during high school.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the input. Zebrarunner, I would agree that film stuff should stay on. I also think putting all the theatre credits together makes sense.</p>
<p>Comments about from college reps about a slightly different resume topic, clubs, from this thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1253689-looking-input-college-reps.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/1253689-looking-input-college-reps.html</a></p>
<p>Although the topic was a little different, I think the answers are applicable to this thread.</p>
<p>From kjgc (Coastal Carolina)
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<p>From KatMT (James Madison)
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<p>From VoiceTeacher (Shenandoah)
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<p>That was really helpful, thanks for posting!</p>
<p>Not that my voice carries as much weight as the college reps above, but I would certainly put the TV/film credits on, and I would certainly leave in any professional credits from childhood on. (Omit any educational theatre pre-high school, however.) It cannot possibly hurt. At the very least, it will tell the panel more about yourself and be a starting point for conversation. </p>
<p>What is ‘traditional’ is to put the theatre credits first under “Theatre”–you put the role, show, director, theatre. Usually you’d put that, as NJTHeatreMom says, in order of importance.</p>
<p>If you have only high school or camp theatre experience, then you’d say ‘theatre.’ But if you have professional or even community theatre experience, you then divide the two to say, ‘Theatre" and “Educational Theatre.” You can note if any of the theatres are professional as opposed to community, although generally the college people will know by name. Then the order of importance would be the importance of the theatres you worked in. For instance, if you had the lead in high school, but ensemble in an equity theatre, the ensemble in equity theatre would go first under "Theatre,’ and the lead would go below under “Educational theatre.”</p>
<p>Beneath “Theatre” you put “Film/Commercial,” or whatever. Again, by order of importance. If you were an extra in a film ($10/hour type), that’s not usually regarded as much of a big deal, and shouldn’t be lumped with paid acting roles, or even with volunteer college produced roles. </p>
<p>If you’ve won any acting awards, you can put that below under “Awards/Honors.” If you’ve taken classes or pre-college, under that you put “Education.”</p>
<p>Any other theatre-related experience (eg playwriting or stage crew) should be listed as well. Again this is a nice starting off point and shows your range of experience.</p>
<p>Some mistakes I have seen were to act as though getting private voice lessons were some sort of amazing thing (eg “Eight years of private voice lessons!”), and listing experience that is too old (“4 Year Old Tommy in ‘Tommy’” at X High School!").</p>
<p>@emsdad you are the master when it comes to searching these threads! I have all I can do not have a response time out before I send it. (A clear indication that my posts are usually too long).</p>
<p>I think you’ve confirmed what I sort of suspected with respect to a resume’s role in all of this. It isn’t something that I’d over think but for sure what you don’t want to do is have one that is clearly full of mistakes, typos etc. or naive things like connections mentions above.</p>