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Resumes for StrawHat

Your picture & resume are your calling card - the first thing a casting director sees and often

the ONLY tool used to determine your qualifications. Theatrical resumes are not the same as

traditional business resumes, and StrawHat Auditions has specific requirements. Please

review the following guidelines and see the example resume at the end of this article.

INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: (Failure to follow these standards will delay processing of your

application and consideration for an audition.)

 Your Name. It should be the same on your resume and application print-out.

 Your direct contact phone number, along with agency contact if you have

representation.

 Your email address. We strongly recommend that you consider creating a free account

(gmail, yahoo, etc.) instead of using an “.edu” account. Many universities use spam

filters that could send our correspondence to you right to your junk folder. That would be

bad.

 Height, Weight, Hair Color, Eye Color, Voice Type or Range (for singers), Union

Affiliations.

 A 2” H x 1.5” W (approx.) “thumbnail” of your headshot in the upper left corner of your

resume

 NEVER list your home address or Social Security card number!

BLACK INK ON WHITE PAPER ONLY: Why? It’s the easiest to read. When auditioning, you

want them looking at you, not struggling to decipher your past credits.

 No colored paper or inks

 No background “fill” colors in text boxes

FONT STYLE: Legible. Try one of these: Times New Roman, Helvetica, Gil Sans, Arial, etc.

Italics are unnecessary. If we can’t read it, we’re not interested.

FONT POINT SIZE: Do not use anything smaller than 11 point, and 12 point is preferable. If

your resume is packed to the gills at 11 point, then congratulations! But it means that it's time

to start doing some pruning from the different categories.

PAGE FORMAT SHOULD BE 8”X10” and cropped to match your 8x10 photo's size (see our

corresponding info on Professional Headshots). Standard paper size is 8-1/2 x 11, so crop

it to fit.

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Set your left and top margins for 0.5", your right margin for 1", and your bottom margin

for 1.5" and then you can easily trim the excess from the right and bottom. Office supply

stores usually have a tabletop paper cutter in the copy center. Use it.

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Credits should be listed in set columns: Play, Role, then Theatre (unless you elect our

example #2). Set tabs at intervals to make the columns line up neatly.

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Categories can help break up a long list of credits, or beef up a resume that may seem

thin. You can separate Musical Theatre and Theatre, or Summer Stock and

Educational, Educational and Community.

PROOFREAD YOUR RESUME!

 Arthur Miller wrote a classic American play. It was not titled “Dearth of a Salesman.”

Resumes For Strawhat