Is the address on your resume costing you auditions?

I wanted to be an actor.

Standing on a stage, standing in front of a camera, carrying someone else's story in my own body. That was the thing I most wanted to do. But I decided to solve the thing I'm already good at first. That was business. Build a footing with what you do well, then walk toward what you actually want. So I named the company Auteur. In film, an auteur is the author of their own work. I wanted, one day, to be the author of my own career, and I wanted to see that word every day.

Somewhere along the way, working on the business, I noticed something. Actors have a mailbox problem too.

An actor's address goes on the resume, the headshot, the agent profile. Once those leave your hands they travel to casting directors, to agents, across the internet, and they don't come back. Most actors put down the address where they actually live, because there isn't a good alternative. That's a safety problem. It's also an opportunity problem: casting and agents see your address before they see your work, and productions in cities like Toronto and Vancouver look for who's “local.” A single line of address can shape an impression before anyone presses play on your tape.

Let me be honest about one thing: an address does not grant official “local hire” status. That's set by each production and usually needs proof of residency. What an address changes is the first impression, not your legal standing. I won't promise past that line.

I think an actor deserves two freedoms: the freedom not to put their home address out into the world, and the freedom not to be filtered out, at the paper stage, because of where they live. That's the part Auteur is here to solve: real street addresses in Toronto and Vancouver that don't look like a PO box and don't expose your home.

My dream is still to act. So I'm starting with something for actors, in the way I know how.

June, Auteur