Okay. Well your performing CV is VERY different to your normal CV. It should look like this:
Name
Address
Mobile Phone
Home Phone
E-Mail
Spotlight Pin (If you have one)
Physical Details (including)
Height
Hair Colour/Length
Waist/Chest/Hip Measurement
Build (Thin/Athletic/Muscular/Heavy/etc.)
Playing Age (You should note that this is different to your actual age - this is the age range of characters that you can play. For example, I'm 25, but can play 18-35, so that's what mine says.)
Experience - Many schools of thought on this, so here's mine. List your previous jobs from newest to oldest in the following format:
Year - Production - Role - Director - Company - Medium
So if you did a movie this year, you'd write this:
2010 - The Super Dog Adventures - Alice (Lead) - Dave McDirectorpants - FilmCo Movies - Feature Film
One piece of advice - NEVER just list the name of the character you play unless it was a main role in a major cinematic release. Tom Hanks can just write "Forrest Gump" on his - people know the character. I probably don't know how important 'Alice' was in "The Super Dog Adventures" because it wasn't a big hit. So you have to tell me if it was a lead role, supporting role, featured extra, etc. Likewise, I had a guy who had a line in a TV show apply for Holland Park. He just listed the character with no semblance of how important it was, as if he expected me to look it up. In any given week, there are THOUSANDS of shows on TV. You can't expect me to know how important 'Dave' was to that episode of Doctors; I couldn't name any of the lead characters.
In terms of "Medium" - that means things like Television, Feature Film (Generally anything over 80 minutes long), Short Film (Anything under 80), Student Film, Theatre, Musical Theatre (We do distinguish - doing "The History Boys" requires a different skillset to "Grease"), Voice-Over, Commercial, Radio Play, Music Video. Any doubts, just ask someone what you should classify it as.
Training - list each piece of training you've had with bullet points. For example:
- Italia Conti - 3-week Singing and Acting course
Special Skills - these can make or break a job for you. I had a CV come in that included the special skills "Army trained" and "weapons expert" - if I'm making a Bourne or Bond movie, that actor jumps waaaaay up my list. It also listed "Medically trained" and "Midwife" - again, if I'm casting for Casualty, that's jumped up the list. The actress in question was, of course, a former Army medic before she took up acting.
What special skills do you have? Can you do accents? List all of them.
Singing? What's your range?
Trained in dancing? What styles?
What else can you do? Make a list:
Cycling, Horse riding, football, mountain climbing, trapeze... - you never know when that hobby you had as a kid will make a difference.
On my CV, it mentions that I'm a stand-up comedian, I'm trained in martial arts, I'm a former professional wrestler, I played football at a semi-pro level and I'm an accomplished American footballer. Among the auditions that I have lined up for the near future are roles as a boxer, a cage fighter, a stand-up comedian, two football films and one playing a sports announcer. All because my skillset was unique enough for me to be of use to those productions. Likewise, I'm trained in singing Jazz, Blues and Gospel and I was trained by a legend of those genres, Lillian Boutte. You'd be very surprised how many eyebrows that raises and how much longer that's kept me in the room at some auditions.
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