<p>What is everyone's feelings/thoughts about putting your monologue coach's info on your resume? My S's strongly recommends it (of course) but we're not so sure. Thanks for your input.</p>
<p>That is a great question that I have wondered about as well. I look forward to seeing your responses. Of course it benefits the coach, but does it hurt or help the student?</p>
<p>I would think that if the monologue coach is someone who is well-known or has a really great reputation, that would be a good experience to put down (similar to if you had taken a specialized course like stage combat or Shakespeare) but I have to wonder if auditioners care that you got some support from the local person who may only be a big fish in a very small pond. Maybe it depends on whether you live in NYC/LA or farmtown, Mid-America. It certainly behooves the monologue coaches to promote themselves!</p>
<p>My first instinct is to say not to include it. How much time did you spend with this coach? Was it simply to prepare for college auditions? It doesn’t seem to me that that information is going to be of much value on your resume for college admissions.</p>
<p>I should also add, anecdotally, that I happened to be speaking to a friend in NYC this week who is involved in the theatre community and who is also involved at a college theatre program. I don’t want to say more because I don’t want to identify her further but she mentioned how there are ‘monologue coaches’ out there who have the reputation of being far too involved in the selection and preparation of monologues for applicants/auditionees. Students should be doing the bulk of this work themselves and many are not.</p>
<p>Interesting question. After reading this, I pulled up my daughter’s revised resume, after she worked on it this summer at CMU’s program. The earlier draft listed her coaches; the new draft does not list them. I asked her about it and she said that she’d been advised to cut down on the amount of training she listed.</p>
<p>I am just taking a guess here, but I would say not to put it. alot of the schools say that they want to see who “you” are and putting down a monologue coach, IMO, is a bit like putting down who your essay consultant was…</p>
<p>I know that on professional resumes, it is common to put who your teachers are, but in that case, the shows are looking for trained actors. Here, the schools are looking to do the training.</p>
<p>I think that to some degree it really doesn’t matter. The schools are going to base their decision very largely on your audition. Neither training nor performance experience, as listed on your resume, are very important at all, compared to your audition.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I also think you have to consider your resume and what it looks like, over all. I think most students do list their training. Perhaps CMU was advising glassharmonica’s daughter not to list ALL her training, but rather to keep the list short.</p>
<p>I really wonder to what extent listing the coach on a resume “helps the coach.” Coaching helps enhance the auditioner’s abilities…a coach cannot take someone with weak skills and mold them so that they get accepted at competitive programs.</p>
<p>That’s a great question!
I really think that putting all of the coaches and special training you’ve had is important on a resume.
The more you can market yourself on your resume, the better. Especially if you have great references. 
That little piece of paper is one of your selling pitches. Of course, your audition is most important. That resume will stay with them after you’ve auditioned and left.
I would keep it very neat and easy to read.
Hope this helps!</p>
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