Hi Bonnie, I’m sure you’ve heard this a hundred times, from a hundred different actors, but, I need help. I’m a 28 year-old actress living in the Chicago area. I’ve been doing theatre for years….
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What’s Your Dream?
“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….
Year-End Critiques
Okay, you beautiful people. You may have noticed that I teased this last week, and then opened up the opportunity to BonBlast mailing list members. Not surprisingly, I got a ton of submissions from you…
Cross-Pollination
I keep a folder. Well, I keep two. One is the “What were you THINKING?!?” folder filled with the worst, most bizarre, beyond ridiculous submissions I’ve received since going into casting. I’m not going to…
Same Letter for Multiple Submissions?
Hi Bonnie, I have been pretty excited lately, almost as if I just woke up to real life. Because of you, a light went off and I have been furiously reading your stuff and writing…
Critiques: Your Websites
Hooray! It’s the end of the five-week series on Critiques! Yippee! Yahoo! 🙂 Hey, don’t get me wrong. It’s been a blast getting to know y’all better by poking through your headshots, your resumes, your…
Critiques: Your Demo Reels
Welcome to week four of the five-week series on Critiques! Don’t worry, those of you who feel bored to tears with this series. We’ll be back to normal programming on April 5th. And for those…
Critiques: Your Headshots
Hey, so here starts the five-week series on Critiques! No, I’m not looking for anything else (well, except for cover letters; I am low on those, comparatively), because you fine folks have inundated me with…
Get Critiqued!
This will be a short column. But don’t you dare call me a slacker. I’m asking for more work than you might imagine, in the few words I’m going to put in front of you…
Help Us Help You
I find myself at the computer screen today really excited to write this column. Not that I don’t always enjoy showing up to the blank Word document, ready to ticky-tack-type a bunch of words for…