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Studying Success

in The Actors Voice on March 25, 2013 August 14, 2025

I’m writing this week’s column while on a break from a very surreal experience: a four-day Tony Robbins seminar called “Unleash the Power Within.” Most days are 16 hours of jumping up and down, hootin’…

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in The Actors Voice on March 18, 2013 August 14, 2025

Hey Bonnie! Your article on when to make a PASS got me thinking about a project I passed on this weekend, and I wanted to get your opinion on it. It was one of those…

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Interview Your Bookings

in The Actors Voice on March 18, 2013 August 14, 2025

I hinted at this exercise in the very first edition of Self-Management for Actors ten years ago. I call this exercise homework for my SMFA Brand Blitz. And I talked about this exercise on March…

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What Would Bonnie Say?

in The Actors Voice on March 11, 2013 August 14, 2025

This week, I’m on the road (doing a panel at SXSW and several events with SAG Foundation here in Austin), and that always gets me looking through the gratitude file. 😉 Here are two awesome…

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Inverted Pyramid

in The Actors Voice on March 11, 2013 August 14, 2025

Regular readers know I love to apply the inverted pyramid to the actor resume. The inverted pyramid, of course, is something they taught us in journalism school, and it’s all about leading with the meatiest…

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SXSW and SAG Foundation Events

in The Actors Voice on March 4, 2013 August 14, 2025

Hi Bonnie, I’ve been following you for a little over a year. As soon as I started digging into your materials, I was immediately endeared to you after reading an article you wrote that included…

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Pass

in The Actors Voice on March 4, 2013 August 14, 2025

One of the things going on these days — as we prep to move Cricket Feet Casting (and all things Self-Management for Actors) to new office space — is the process of purging paper. Lots…

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Ignore the Backstory of Being Dropped

in The Actors Voice on February 25, 2013 August 14, 2025

Hi Bonnie, I’m writing because I have a conundrum that I’m unsure how to handle. Here’s the situation: I had a commercial agent for about ten months. I didn’t book anything through him, but I…

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Plan K

in The Actors Voice on February 25, 2013 August 14, 2025

Most of y’all know that I was a kid actor in Atlanta who moved to LA after college. I was packing to move back to Atlanta just after my 24th birthday. I was super bummed….

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in My Hot Bod on February 24, 2013 August 14, 2025

I’ve had very little interaction with the people who make up our health care system. Probably twice in my adult life that I can recall have I had regular, daily exposure to these folks. Click…

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