I loved your column “Suzanne and the Football Players.” I was one of the “jocks,” the star on the football team. As I was reading, Suzanne would have been right about me, I went to…
Rookie Orientation
For our first anniversary, my husband and I went to an amazing spa/resort place with his precious son (my precious stepson). (Don’t worry. It was located near a really cool amusement park, and the boys…
Any Issues Specific to Kid Actors?
Pretty regularly, I get an email like this one: I just read your column on [topic]. Great info. Thanks. My question is about how that information applies to child actors. My little one is in…
The Human Element
As I write this, I’m watching Cars on Thanksgiving morning. I’ve seen this movie at least three times before, yet I’m crying — again — because the car learned a lesson and took care of…
Actor Wants to Support the Writers’ Strike
Hi Bonnie, I graduated from UC Irvine in June and now I am an actor in LA doing the “actor thing.” I have been reading your column on Actors Access for over a year now…
Audition Ad-Libs
Last month, I spoke to a group of actors down at UC Irvine. (Have I mentioned that this most recent graduating MFA class blew me away at the April showcase they put on with Harvard/ART?…
Feedback on Jingle Singing
I am a longtime studio singer — spent 25 years singing jingles — and because I live and work in Dallas where the jingle scene sort of dried up with the closing of three major…
The Strike
I wasn’t going to write about the strike. I really wanted to write about anything else. So much so that I had scribbled a list of a half-dozen perfectly good topics (and another dozen decent…
That Casting Associate Has a Bad Attitude
I love it when I get feedback on The Actors Voice: POV. Sometimes I worry that regular readers of The Actors Voice forget it even exists. (Psst! Did you see the amazing four-part series from…
Jingle Singing
Once again we’re going to turn The Actors Voice over to a chapter from the now out-of-print Casting Qs: A Collection of Casting Director Interviews. This time up, the topic is jingle singing. Yeah, that’s…