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Critiques: Your Cover Letters
Welcome to week three of the five-week series on Critiques! Thank you to all the rockstar actors who submitted materials for review. We’re all set (read: I don’t need any new content, thanks) and I’m…
Bad Cover Letters, Good Cover Letters
Thank you as always, wonderful readers, for sharing your cover letters for this piece. If you’re looking for a list of quick dos and don’ts for cover letters, revisit my previous column: Covering the Cover…
Request for Column on Cover Letters
Hey there Bonnie, I love your columns. I took some time a couple months ago to catch up on archives, and I redesigned my website after reading your good website/bad website columns, and I get…
Two Letters
A couple of weeks ago, the new edition of Self-Management for Actors hit town. Right away, we packaged up copies to mail out to folks who’d pre-purchased through our website. We also sent out promo…
Covering the Cover Letter
In a recent column, I very casually mentioned the cover letter. “Hey, wait a second! Don’t be so casual about that, Bon. We have questions!” I heard you. I heard from a lot of you…
Showing Up Differently
Taking a deep breath as I show up to the keyboard to put this together. It was *supposed* to be the “last chance to register” post for our six-week intensive called SMFA Online. But instead,…
Your Actor Logline
One of the coolest moves I’ve ever seen comes from an actor who’d been training in Self-Management for Actors with us… who then got an audition from us… after submitting on a breakdown in which…
Connect the Dots: A Secret Weapon for Actors
“I see you shiver with antici… …pation.” Let’s be honest, we all love solving a puzzle, completing a thought, “yes, and…”-ing a great lead-in. Connecting the dots is FUN. Yet for some reason, I regularly…
Submitting to an Agent
So, it’s definitely submission season, showcase season, meeting season ’round Hollywood. (If you don’t already have your FREE calendar of the showbiz seasons, please head over here to grab the SMFA Hot Sheet that’ll keep…