Letter 2

Job Title: Butlins Redcoat

Dear Employer,

Following your advertisement for the job as a Redcoat at your Bognor Regis Butlins Campus which I came across online, I am writing to you in hope for an interview for this position, my credentials are as follows.

I am a highly experienced and trained performer in all three disciplines - singing, dancing, acting - the skills that I posses from this training and experience are high levels of people and socials skills and the ability to interact with new and different people. I am a team player and able to communicate ideas to a group and able to listen to others views opinions and ideas. I have been dancing at Jean Butterworth school of dance from the tender age of 2 and a half and have been trained in a disciplined way meaning that I have strong listening skills and able to take criticism and direction from people and able to apply this to my work and performance. Through my dance school I have taken part in Dance festivals from the age of 4 and have achieved 1st, 2nd, 3rd place in ballet, modern, song and dance, contemporary, national and character. I have also gained the title of All England 1st place Champion in Senior Song and dance at London Bloomsbury Theatre. I have also achieved Dance World Cup 1st Place champion in senior folklore, The Dome Theatre Brighton.  Other than dance here is a list of my credentials for Musical performances over the last 7 years:

2007, Annie, Pavilion Theatre, Role: Annie, Director Carolyn Bennett

2007, The King and I, Pavilion Theatre, Director: Carolyn Bennett

2008, Blitz, Pavilion Theatre, Role: Frances Locke, Director: Tony Bright

2011, Annie, The Connaught Theatre, Role: Miss Hannigan, Director: Naomi Higgins

2013, Suessical The Musical, The Sealight Theatre, Role: Horton, Director: Rachel Maddix

2014, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Windmill Theatre, Role: Donna, Director: Janet Webb

2014, Bad Girls the Musical, The Sealight Theatre, Role: Denny Blood, Director: Rachel Maddix

2014, National Theatre Connexions, 'The Wardrobe' Capitol Theatre, Director: Adrian Riley 

2014, Little Shop of Horrors, The Windmill Theatre, Role: Crystal, Director: Kelly Manchee

2014, Bugsy Malone, The Sealight Theatre, Director: Rachel Maddix

2014, Into the woods, The Sealight Theatre, Director: Rachel Maddix

2015, Mother Goose, The Windmill Theatre, Role: Jill, Director: Christopher Blanchard- Cooper

With my dance school and other local schools I have held workshops and technique classes for children aged 5-15 teaching dance styles such as; Ballet, Modern, Musical theatre, Contemporary. I have also taught and choreographed musical theatre numbers and routines for workshop and summer school performances. I have also had experience of doing 1 to 1 singing mentoring for students at my college with helping them develop character and confidence with their singing in preperation for their assessed performances within their musical theatre courses. 

 I believe that through all the experience I have had in both performance and teaching I would be suitable for the job as through my training in performance and the skills I have gained I would be confident with speaking publicly and performing to an audience and working with the general public and be comfortable in social situations. I am happy to work with children as I have had first hand experience with working along side them as well as teaching them. I feel I am qualified enough for this job and feel I would bring a good energy to your team and be able to meet your high standard of work and be able to perform appropriately to any genre that you would require and work hard to create the best out of my abilities for you and the redcoat team.

I do hope to hear from you soon regarding this job placement 

Thank you for your time

Regards,

Sophie Shepherd