Your performer binder, built right

The first page anyone helping you should see — your training, shows, and skills at a glance.

• Name, grade, school, and the year (update it every season).
• Your current voice type and comfortable range — ask your choir director to help you write it down.
• Every show you have been in, with role and director listed (ensemble counts!).
• Special skills: piano, guitar, gymnastics, juggling, dialects, stage combat — anything a director could use.
• Training: choir, dance classes, camps, private lessons, workshops you have taken.

Your prepared 16-bar auditions, ready to hand to an accompanist at any moment.

• Every cut printed, hole-punched, in a 3-ring binder — never loose pages, never a rolled-up sheet.
• Marked clearly: start and stop lines highlighted, tempo written at the top.
• The first page should show the title, show, and composer at a glance.
• Keep 3-5 cuts ready: one ballad, one upbeat, one golden-age, one contemporary.
• Note next to each cut: which voice type it suits and how you feel singing it that day.

Memorized pieces you can perform cold, with a note on what each one shows.

• 2-3 monologues always memorized: one comedic, one dramatic, one classical.
• Each with a header: play, playwright, character, and a one-line "this shows..." note.
• Rehearsal notes: what your teacher or director said about each one.
• Pages for ideas: monologues you have read and want to prepare someday.

Where you hold yourself accountable — print the Practice Log from this site and keep it here.

• One page per month: your practice goal for that month, and the sessions you logged.
• Weekly goal boxes: memorize, polish, run, record.
• A "wins" page: every callback, compliment, and breakthrough, dated. Read it before every audition.

Fuel for smart audition choices — knowledge of shows, songs, and performers.

• A list of shows your school or nearby theaters produce often.
• Songs and monologues you have heard in auditions (jot them down to avoid or steal them later).
• Performances you watched and one specific thing you learned from each.
• Any "overdone" lists your teachers share — update it every season.

Your personal audition history — the fastest way to improve is to track the pattern.

• After every audition, write: date, show, what you sang/monologued, how you felt, what to do differently.
• Track callbacks and results, but track the LESSON too — that is the part that compounds.
• Keep any feedback a director gave you, word for word.