Alright, so I'm getting ready to audition for a professional summer stock program next month and am trying to decide what/how much to include on my resume.

I started acting when I was 9, and by the time I graduated high school, I had 19 shows under my belt. Then I left for college and decided to focus on music rather than theatre. There was a ten year (!) lapse after high school where I played a lot of pro theatre gigs, but all in the orchestra pit- 10 orchestra credits in total.

Recently, I've started doing community theatre when my teaching schedule would allow it (plus I got my Masters Degree in the summer during this time which cut down on CT time), and stacked up another 4 shows onstage. I also started doing directing, and have picked up 5 directing credits.

My question is this: Right now on my acting resume, I have my 4 most current shows followed by the 19 high school and community theatre shows dating back to 1991. I've left off all the directing and orchestra credits, but that does leave a rather suspicious looking gap in the middle.

So how would you handle that so it doesn't look like I wasn't doing anything during those ten years? I already have the instruments I play in the "special skills" section, and my two music degrees are in the training section, along with the stage combat training I picked up last year when directing a pirate show.

As a side note: I auditioned for this summer stock program a few years ago when I was a senior in college, and left all my orchestra credits on my resume... They commented about how I should think about playing for their orchestra... I'd like to avoid that this time around.