Here are a few ideas on maximizing your any acting opportunities that might come your way, or creating the opportunities in the first place.
HAVING AN AGENT
An agent can get your face seen in places that you alone could not. This increases the likelihood of you getting work. The more swings you make the more balls you hit! But there are many acting opportunities to be found without an agent. Though nearly all Film, TV, Broadway and Off Broadway productions will exclusively use agent submissions, you can still find work without an agent. Community and Dinner Theatre, student and some Indie films will take unrepresented actors.
The more experience and skills you have the more likely it is that an agent will take you on. An agent makes money when you work, so they will be keen to sign you up if you can show what an asset you will be to them. There is nothing wrong with sending a Resume and Headshot (more on those later), but its essential that you send follow-up cards letting the agent know where and when you will be working, so they can see for themselves what a good actor you are.
RESUMES
Resumes help, they help in getting an agent but once you...