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The Big Lies

in The Actors Voice on July 30, 2007 August 14, 2025

Well, this always makes me nervous but it also almost always turns out to be a good decision. My column was 80% finished and then I came up with a new idea… so I tossed…

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Feedback on $99 Film School

in The Actors Voice on July 23, 2007 August 14, 2025

I have read yours and Mark’s columns faithfully for a good while now so THANK YOU first of all. I can’t get such helpful advice anywhere else and am always stunned more actors do not…

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Goals

in The Actors Voice on July 23, 2007 August 14, 2025

Setting goals is an important part of your showbiz career. But success comes from both setting those goals and working toward them, spending time analyzing them to be certain you’re on track, and refining them…

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What about Actors of Color?

in The Actors Voice on July 16, 2007 August 14, 2025

Hi Bonnie, I discovered your column recently and have read all of your articles. They’re incredibly informative, and I want to thank you and Showfax for having so much pertinent information in one place (for…

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Trust That You’re Enough

in The Actors Voice on July 16, 2007 August 14, 2025

My husband and I have a relationship that is built on two fundamental principles. One: Always trust that we each have the other’s best interests at heart (that way, even when we’re fighting, we know…

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The Sum of All Years: 36

in The Sum of All Years on July 11, 2007 August 14, 2025

Best of LA, then BBC Breakfast. 35K weekly hits, then THR pilot. Goodbye Roxbury, hello showcase. Westside happy hours became essential as I did more casting, more writing, more epiphany-filled living. Being “thirty silly” rocks!…

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Feedback on Bringing the Kids Along

in The Actors Voice on July 9, 2007 August 14, 2025

So, last week’s column on “Bringing the Kids Along” was met with quite a bit of follow-up email. Here are two items I wanted to share. This first one is from Renee Scott, a wonderful…

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The First Thing an Actor Should Do in LA

in The Actors Voice on July 9, 2007 August 14, 2025

Over the course of the next few months, I’m going to be bringing some of the chapters from my first book — Casting Qs: A Collection of Casting Director Interviews — here to The Actors…

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Taped Submissions at Actors Access

in The Actors Voice on July 2, 2007 August 14, 2025

This might be a good Your Turn. You know how you put out the breakdown for Another Harvest Moon a while back and it’s not casting [non-names] until August? Well, you know how people with…

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Bringing the Kids Along

in The Actors Voice on July 2, 2007 August 14, 2025

Ooh, got a great question from a reader recently. What is the best way to handle being a mother in this business? I am currently (and surprisingly!) pregnant, and moving to LA in a year….

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