News, updates and stories about building a better home for performing arts careers.
When you add a credit on Parts Known, you're not just typing "Actor – Hamlet – 2025". Under the hood, we capture what you were hired as, what you actually did, what the work expected, and what people can vouch for.
Read more →Reviews prove productions happened, show how work landed with critics, and often praise specific artists. Parts Known lets you bring that into your portfolio – but in a way that stays structured and fair.
Read more →If you work in the performing arts, you probably have some version of this: a PDF CV somewhere on your laptop, a headshot in your email drafts, a reel on Vimeo or YouTube... Parts Known exists because that isn't good enough.
Read more →If you work in the performing arts, you probably don't do just one thing. You might be an actor-musician who also puppeteers, a designer who stage-manages, or a drag artist with a separate "day-name" career. Traditional CVs don't know what to do with that.
Read more →If you write for the stage, you probably have drafts in Google Docs, PDFs buried in email threads, and a website that's always "nearly finished". Directors and companies struggle to find basic info about your work. Parts Known gives your plays and musicals a proper home.
Read more →If you run a venue, you probably have posters in a cupboard, PDFs on someone's laptop, and a website that only shows the current season. When a funder asks "What have you produced in the last five years?" you pull information from memory and half-remembered emails. Parts Known fixes that.
Read more →If you run a company, band, collective or youth theatre, your "production history" probably lives in old brochures, a half-updated website, and a spreadsheet on one person's laptop. Parts Known gives groups a way to turn that into a living, shareable archive.
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