Advice if of any help:
Under
Producer you have three shows of the same title, yet it’s three separate lines.
As someone looking at your resume, I would see this as something given the same show as something you are attempting to bulk up your resume with or making it seem as if you have done more shows as
producer than you in some sense have. While it might have been different in job requirements, since it is the same show and under the same period of time, it is in the end the same show.
This given it’s the same show,
producer is now a single show thus either only one
line not stated or one
line that’s stated but less emphisized.
At start again, I hope in being a little harsh it would seem in reply on what you so far present of yourself on a resume, is of use in my having read many people’s resume’s and hired people from them, having read on stagecraft other people’s thoughts on the subject I agree with, and in having my own that God forbid I will never again have to update.
Think more of what you have so far more as a starting
platform than any emotional relationship to it. If important but what I reply to as misunderstood, it than should be less of defense your thoughts, than perhaps a mis-conception of what I’m reading out of what in general is presented of you. In other words, given I don’t understand what you intend thus would modify what you show, it might be some
point to refine in your own showing of it.
Getting back to the resume itself, one wonders given your varying experiences what job you are replying for. One should have more than just a in-general resume. If going for
producer, it in being first should be emphasized, but if going for
props person, than
Producer would be less important. Taylor your resume for the position you seed in what those reading it will most wish to read as to the job you apply for.
Director:
In giving a date, you even if “
current” need to state it’s duration. In the one show cited - given it’s not presented as a Broadway production, one would also state the theater it’s presented at. In 1999, where was this show done? Given it’s also the only directing show to your credit, it’s presentatation while necessary or good to note might not also be so important to be the 5th thing you present.
Technical Director:
Officially, or in a classic sense the Technical Director is someone that serves the theater he or she works for with many shows in that space for a duration of time. The Technical Director is commonly more devoted to the space and shows it produces first than any specific citing of shows within it. As Technical Director in citing these six shows, what is this or these locations you cite the shows were presented at? What scale of theater you TD at is important to present. Big difference between “The Crucible” in high school than again presented on Broadway. Such a influence you had as TD on the show in more than a
Master Carpenter/Set Decorator type of way is important when it comes to considering you for a job.
For show credits - designer/director/
producer/actor, where or what sense of involvement (tour, what theater
etc.) that
role was is important, for TD, it’s less a
role. This
role as TD is assumed to be the TD for the space and or production company and not individual show. In this case it would be the duration of time in location or for production company and not the shows individually your
role in was more mechanical than design/art. Perhaps citing the shows if not numerous, but less on their own lines as if they were shows cited your
role in was more of great artistic noteworthyness beyond hard work done you will have done so for in any other show.
TD
role is not per say the art part of it, it’s more the mechanical sense of it. You thus cite a production company or theater serving that separate
role in for duration, and not the shows individually supervised. It’s already assumed you have in that
role supervised the shows done in the space. Citing a limited amount of shows worked on as TD makes it seem as if less experience as a TD than just stating the length of time you had a
role in the show. Given pre-production, you both are making it in citing shows involved in seem as if less than experienced as a TD, and laminating that emphases of from 2002 to 2005 you have been doing the TD job.
Much better to say state something like May 2002 - June 2002 ....X Theater, “The Crucible”
May 2003 - June 2003 ...X Theater, “The Larmie Project”,
etc until 2005 where you show a good duration of time as TD for this theater or production company so far and some day can forget the other shows and earlier dates given this eight month duration so far and
current status as TD.
The TD job is one more centered around the space and duration of time you spend representing that space. Thus your 2005 info is of use in having - in theory more so than just for three shows, been eight months so far the TD of that theater/production company. Not a huge amount of time in grade thus the use of earlier show credits but not in other shows keepers for the resume for the most part. As a TD you want to know where and for how long more than anything else.
Set Designer:
Ok, this just threw your resume for me in the trash can. While it did make me give a second look to it, it was only to out of curiosity see if you also cite the same shows as director and
producer as that of TD and Set Designer. Yep in some cases. That’s a really really bad thing. That interest in you only to find why I was looking for an error, does in no way mean interest as if small fish in throwing you back once caught until such a time you grow as a fish. Certainly nobody I would hire.
One, here you only have experience it would seem so far as I read it and reply with six shows, and on those six shows you produced, designed and TD’d them so far. If doing a pro job, you don’t have time to do all. Much less it’s not safe on a professional
level to both design and be the
safety certification on that same show you design. That so far this is about a half
page devoted to only six shows at an unknown location, but way too much involvement with them throws a major red flag up. First this involvement you cite all inclusive as suspicious in having done the job professionally, and second that you have devoted so much space foremost on your resume to only six shows of experience in making such experience in the industry seem larger but in reality it not being much. (Remember that this reply is meant to cite what you post for resume in reading as per perspective employer and not to cut you down or belittle you.)
Lighting Desinger:
Yep, still the same shows. This is a really really bad thing in being the all
in one person now thus for a small show. Unless you are applying for similar small shows, your credits so far don’t equate, instead you have limited yourself and shown the small scale of them. Are these high school productions on some Gymatorum
stage? One given only repeted dates and shows does not know in taking credit for what professional experience but by far too involved with the same show, and no theater or true
role cited.
Much less you just broke the second
page rule. Very important that if you break this second
page rule that you have some very good reason to make your resume a second
page. I’m busy. If you are taking up a few inches each
page but just citing the same shows, and repeating them for un-known production company or theater for each place, yet by now two pages of the same six or now a few more shows, I will have in interest in you long since by the second
page stopped reading.
Lighting Operator:
Never affiliate yourself with a show as a lighting operator unless on the major touring/production
level. If paid as 9:5 it’s paid by the tour or by the theater but no artistic involvement in the production. As if TD, the light board operator is paid staff. Time in grade where you spend it is more important than you have worked all of five shows on some un-known light board. If light board tech, in calling it on your resume, instead you might wish to as TD state time in grade and a list of light boards you are qualified to operate. Was Catch 23 on a six
channel one scene pre-set or a say MAXXYZ with
wing? As a light board operator, it is by far more valuable to know how much time in grade and what you are qualified to be using than in taking design credit for shows involved with. Otherwise what are you in citing shows as a light board operator - given general term Light Operator does not mean
gel puller or
par can pusher to new focus, or follow spot operator. But assuming as not presented light board operator, you have to chose in your resume, can you only operate an assumed light board for those five shows you present or can you do it for any number of specific light boards for any show given to you. How many years have you operated this unknown light board? This is a resume in telling what experience you have. Unless design credits for a specific location’s show at a certain date, otherwise it’s what you were using and how long in grade with it.
For experience in having read so far on the second
page, and now a qualification for “lighting operator” still not noticing if it’s someone qualified to
stage brace a
gel out of a
fixture or someone qualified on the
vision as opposed to a two scene
preset, one still can’t see any
rating and gauging you seek to present if you can run the Hog III say I have to consider at least you for in the future. One must admit that there if un-listed as light operator what you can operate on a master
level some amount of learning curve that if not stated won’t get you hired in calling your certification as operator but only for five plays of a specific year that ability you credit yourself to. This beyond it the same plays that does not look good.
Automated Lighting:
Same thing, we now know a few shows you worked with anything from calling an American DJ thing to a
Mac 700 automated. The Tick we note you did not design/operate/TD. A question is especially on this show, did you work as the moving light tech or work on a show that was using these lights but had limited
roll in their use?
Being in a show using moving lights has much less importance than as the “Moving Light Tech. Person” for those shows if your exclusive
role in them. Were you the one to troubleshoot, change the patterns and clean the gears of such moving lights or were you simply in shows where moving lights were used? Did you change some PC card in them as your
role as master of moving light fixtures or was your
role in working on shows that used them? Addressing them is not much a credit. “Automated Lighting” short of what you have as with light board, limited value.
Time for me and in some way for us to stop on this resume. Six pages is 2/3 way worse than even I in my long form writing ever presented. Two pages for a resume. I see in your theater both how you can simplify and how you can emphasize some things for time in grade, while still during that same time take design credits for it. While not specifically honest, in presenting dates and durations, plus gear and where, you can make it separate from productions you can claim design credit to accurately given a need to include them as more than just background text.
The next few pages of your resume sound very good and extensive. You seem to have experience and training/background, too bad as of early in the first
page it was crap canned by the perspective reader with three minutes to read it.
Much editing TBA, and you don’t need much of what you presented for theater in it’s long format. Two
page rule. Stuff like “Second City 2001 to August 5 2004, Toronto, classes in improve, Completed the Teen Training program and the Adult Training program,
Instructors: Albert Howl, Brian Smith, Carolyn Meehan, Dave Pearce, David Talbot, Doug Morency, Jenny Parsons, Kate Ashby, Kathryn Haggis, Kerry Griffin,
Lee Smart and Rochelle Wilson” Does this all need to be mentioned in your workshop/seminars?
I recognize perhaps a few names in also being local, but so what. Instead perhaps something like “Second City - Toronto, Classes in Improve” 2001-2004. This might be a more better statement of special training. Those that know what Second City is, and what “Classes in Improve” does for you will as a more simple citing of credit know it’s use. Otherwise, if we don’t know of it’s name and value, wasting seven lines of text is a waste of my time as a reader of your resume.
Get the idea here? Also that I’m using capital letters for proper titles and names. Bad Karma on a resume not to be using capital letters to something specific such as “classes in improve.”
Look to punctuation, capitulation, simplification, and most important editing to the field you most wish to pursue. Should you wish to be a camera operator, leading off in the first
page with theater
producer experience when applying for camera operator experience is a no go with me in hiring you.
Finally on “Equipment I have used:”
“I have used” means no mastery
level. I have used means you when told to push some
button on a
Fat Frog you can, but does not mean you can sit down and program cues on the go. Nor does this mean you can clean the tubes to or trouble shoot a Neutron
Hazer. Stuff like LeMatrie
Pyro Hardware and Product and Luna Tech Pyropak Hardware and Product means nothing to me. Do you have some form of
pyro certification to speak of or did you unload a truck with such gear on it? Get the concept here? While you might have done some form of A/B mixing, citing use of “product” unknown product at that, much less certification of use in it is useless in applying for a job. This is all beyond choice of words of “Equipment I have used:” as poor choice and
armature. What one uses once under direction for a moment is by far different than what on a professional
level what can claim experience to on a master
level.
Instead your
pyro experience is trumped by the later Canada Explosives Certification. Think that’s somewhat important in but slightly stating your official capacity skills. Why is it on
page 6? If going for a
pyro job, you thing anyone cares about
page one so far? If going for TD, this will help a perspective employer over that of directing credits. Your Awards section as better stated Awards/Certifications: would be best on the first
page somewhere in making you stand out above others right at the bat - even if only applying for a lighting job. “Hey, this is the
Pyro Cert. Guy” I’m interviewing with” that gets you in the door in having the aptitude to qualify for one thing already. Also is of interest in the interview. As stated before, I in my own resume had as second
line after necessary data my goals. Those were “To become a world famous designer - not likely, or Grumpy Old Man of the Theater.” As goal and something to remember you by, this was commented on everywhere I applied in interviewer remembering at least this about me that makes me stand out. If five minutes before I interview you, all I read is the first and part of the second
page of your own resume, all I thus see is but five shows where you were all the person in getting the show done but it being a one man show thus not much to speak of. “Goals, What you want to blow up, I’ll make it happen safely.” Something might be of interest to speak of with you. Can you hear me that this resume is other than some list? It’s a goal log in
tracking your career so far. Dependant upon how numerous - you might no longer even have to list specific shows you worked on. You apply for director position, you don’t have the same format for resume as that of applying for camera man position. Even if you can simplify it down to one
page, and put references on one request(give E-Mail addresses to them) but one
line for each on the second/last
page. Only include a second
page if necessary. It might or might not be looked at thus it’s only for supplemental information. Those of serious consideration for a job if I’m other than desperate will be contacted. Those in addition to phone I can easily contact will be much more in consideration than those references that I leave voice mail to but don’t
call back. Much less and especially are surprised that they are a reference. Those on your resume do know they are as such do they not?
It’s your resume. Put first what is important that for which you apply. Bet you can easily make this a at most two
page resume instead of six. Your
cover letter (paragraph or at most two - also refined for the place you apply) can further refine it no doubt down to one and a half pages.
While I no longer need a resume should I at some
point get fired to get a job just as good, nor have to hire any longer, resumes are still of interest to me. I hope it’s useful these comments to you and all. Intent was not to mock your statements, only to cite what as person that has read such things in the past and has my own resume format and style, do cite some psychological things about yours that are problematic should I be on the market to hire you. I hope you find the criticism above of use.
