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November 14, 2011 at 5:38 pm #6887
pacopax	<p>Hi all,</p> <p>Long time reader, first time poster. </p> <p>I’m a composer/lyricist in Boston, currently working with a regional theater on an original show to be produced next summer. This is my first time working on this level; I’ve written before, but up until now, it’s been mostly youth and community theater. </p> <p>I was recently asked for my bio to use for PR, but I’m unsure how to go about writing a bio that is ‘appropriate’ for a project like this. Should I try to make the smaller stuff I’ve written seem more important, play up other aspects of my education? I want a bio that sounds professional without saying "This guy wrote a lot of kid stuff that got produced at theater camps and tiny, community theaters you’ve never heard of, etc." </p> <p>Please advise! Thanks!</p> <p>Adam </p>
November 14, 2011 at 8:37 pm #7954
David J. Hahn	Sometimes it’s more about what you don’t include than what you do include. My general rule for bios is that you should write about what you want to do, not what you’ve done. For instance, if you want to become a full-time composer of shows are regional theaters – spin your past experience into a bio that sounds like that’s what you already do. That’s the truth, actually. That IS what you do. So just make it sound like that. So instead of saying something like: “Adam wrote musicals for the Children’s Theatre of Boston” – instead, say: “Adam has developed musicals that have been performed throughout the Boston area.” Both are true, right?

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