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Acting Resume
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Theatre, TV, Video, Film, Commercial and Voiceover
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Asked to summarize the resumes above as if for a brief advertisement, these were some results:
Theatre/Acting
Female character actor. Age range ~30-50+ Typically cast as authority figures with a heart - moms, cops, doctors, judges, scientists, ringleaders, etc. Never been an ingenue, very level-headed, organized, reliable, trustworthy, loyal, honest, brave and very crazy. :-} Saves all the drama for the camera/stage, works creatively within a controlled chaos paradigm.
Voice Over
Female voiceover talent. Extensive vocabulary, technical computer jargon, scientific terminology, several dialects, many character voices, some other languages (Spanish, some others). Bird noises, baby cries, beatboxing.
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Information Technology Resume
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Friends who've asked what that day job has been about can now satisfy their curiosities. Dana Rice is a municipal Web Manager - for Seattle City Light, which is the local power utility and a department of the City of Seattle Municipal Government. The Information Technology portion of the SCL Web Team, so I do the technical work, and we have other folks who are graphics designers and writers and so forth. My background in IT is a combination of Server Administration, Network Administration, Desktop Support and Web Site Administration, usually in small shops where we were doing a combo of all of the above.
For me, the balance between technical and creative endeavours is very necessary and balancing - creatively technical during the day and creatively imaginative on nights and weekends. :-} It's a nice balance of people, too. People in office environments spend a lot of time and energy effusing the message "I'm fine. I'm normal. I have no neuroses. I have no psychoses." Which, although very kind of them to spare others their drama, is of course not the truth. Theatre people, on the other hand, at least the most open and well-trained actors, are very honest and earnest with their emotional state, and often have spent a lot of money, time, sweat, tears, and joy to enhance their ability to be so. "Hey, I've got this neurosis. Do you have this one? How do you use it in your work? What are your big triggers around it? I've got this nightmare/dream that I use sometimes... " And so forth. ::sigh:: Of course, the less-self-aware theatre folks often just inflict their neuroses upon others, or carry the circumstances of their character off-stage and cause all sorts of unrequired drama. ::chuckle:: This is when it's nice to have a day job with "Fine, Normal" people as respite. See how balance can be a fine thing? :-} Also, a "switch" or "trigger" that can flip a person in and out of character, a very fine thing.
This is not to slight anyone, I've worked with very well-trained actors who struggled to be alive on stage, and I've worked with rarely-trained actors who rock and roll seemingly without effort. And vice-versa. Me, I'm in-between. Some training, some innate rock 'n roll. Lots of need to walk around in someone else's shoes, to fill in the gaps in my education, to represent the point of view of some portion of the author's mind, and to relate to people I could never meet.
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