Building your acting resume can be a bit difficult and often creates confusion for newcomers to the craft. What order will best showcase your talents and what's most important to include?

A few things you might want to consider when creating the resume will be: what's the most valuable experience that you have, what looks best on a resume, in point of fact, much like any other resume.

A great deal of the theater work is connections, in reality, who you know and what you've done.

If you worked a little local theater, and have also worked a larger one such as the Guthrie, which would you logically put on the resume and which might you leave off? The Gutrhrie of course should be included. If a well known name in the business is viewed on your resume people will look again simply because they know the quality of that person's work, even if they don't yet know the quality of yours.

Don't try to list everything that you've done over the course of your career, even if it's been a short career. Simply because you have theater, television and also commercials experience doesn't mean that you should attempt to jam them all into the same resume. Prepare a resume for use with various types of jobs, so that you might have two or three of them, one for such things as commercials, while another will highlight relevant experience in theater.

Common sense goes a long way toward making a positive impression with your resume.

Don't lie about your experiences. It may work, but it probably won't, and it will get your resume tossed for all future openings if it's found out.Likewise don't have a resume that is longer or lengthier than a page, perhaps two and don't do an oversize headshot and staple it to a smaller folder. It will most likely get thrown out. Stapling clippings or reviews of your work simply gets in the way of the vital information they want to see.

Clip your headshot onto the resume, and make sure that current information is listed on the back of it.