“Welcome to Hollywood! What’s your dream? What’s YOUR dream?” Ah… I’ll never forget the first time I saw Pretty Woman, and I’ll never forget the actor shouting that through the streets in an opening scene….
New Office Space
I’ve always worked from home. No matter how old I was, I set up a desk and “played office.” And when I got an office — and my first team of ninja assistants — in…
Refinements to Interviewing Your Bookings
So, last week’s column on Interviewing Your Bookings was one that generated a lot of gratitude (you’re welcome) and a lot of follow-up questions (here come the answers). Rather than pulling any of the specific…
Studying Success
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’…
Feedback on Pass
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…
Interview Your Bookings
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…
What Would Bonnie Say?
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…
Inverted Pyramid
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…
SXSW and SAG Foundation Events
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…
