Whether you’ve just begun a career in acting or you just arrived in a new market, every new actor has one frustration that stares him or her in the face at every audition: You barely have any appropriate credits on your résumé. Agents want to know that you can handle auditions and casting directors want to know that they can trust you with the material. One way of proving you can handle the challenges of the casting process and book jobs is by the credits on your résumé. Here are a few ways you can start building these desired credits and learn a lot from your experiences along the way.
1. Take a class. Training is a very important section of a résumé for a new actor. Casting doesn’t expect you to have a ton of credits, however they want to know that you have been guided and are learning acting skills from a school or coach they trust. If you are a theater actor arriving in Los Angeles, the first thing you should do is get into an on-camera TV/film acting class with a respected studio. Beyond learning new techniques, you’ll start to build a community with your new classmates. You never know what opportunity lies around the corner from someone who respects your work in
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