"Getting In Through The Front Door" - Tips On Your Picture And Resume

Over the many years that I owned my own talent agency, I personally opened, and looked at, every picture and
resume that had been sent to me. Over that period of time, I formed definite opinions as to what I thought worked
to the benefit of the actor - and what didn't.

Your picture and resume are such an important part of your life as an actor, that whenever an actor comes in to
see me in my capacity as a consultant, it is the first subject that I discuss with them.

The unfortunate fact is that most pictures and resumes immediately wind up in the "recycling bin" - or are immediately
disposed of by the dreaded "delete key".

The fact remains that your picture and resume are the most direct way of introducing yourself to people who can help
you get acting work.

What can you do to get your envelope opened, and its contents read by the right people?

What kind of picture, and how many different pictures should you include in your submission envelope?

Your resume - what I think helps, and what I think turns people off.

Your covering letter - what I think are the most common mistakes actors make with it - and how to avoid these mistakes.

And - most importantly - what I think are the best ways to "get through" to Casting Directors, their "assistants, "associates", etc. - in their capacity as paid employees of the casting process - rather than having to pay to be seen by them in their extracurricular activities as self-proclaimed "teachers" in the so-called "cold reading workshops" that seem to be everywhere these days.

Eric Klass


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