All right, lovelies. It’s finally time for me to reveal the details of our SIX WEEKS TO LA Scholarship Contest for 2016!! Hooray! Here… a vid with all the how-to [Bonnie Gillespie’s 6W2LA Scholarship Contest]:…
Actors: Social Media and Stoppers
Ah, actors. I love y’all. You are smart and creative and clever and you’ve got a shitton of hustle. Unfortunately, someone has taken your natural inclination to look for what might give you “the edge”…
Change: Turn a Dial or Flip a Switch?
Change is a fascinating thing. We often *want* to change something like we want to flip a lightswitch. It’s in one direction and we want to flip it the other way. We’re unrepped and we…
Actors: LA Starts on a Yes
Hello lovelies. I just came home from a casting meeting and I’m so freakin’ excited! Why? Because the magic of *starting* the casting process is one that reminds me that LA starts on a YES….
I Have No Damn Bucket List
In a recent flip-through of my Emmy Magazine, I read this little nugget in an interview with Oprah Winfrey: Is there anything on your bucket list that you haven’t accomplished? I don’t have a bucket…
My Whole30 Results
[NOTE: My six-months since Whole30 post is here. BTW, it’s 3 years later and I’m still down 50 pounds thanks to all that Whole30 taught me!] Today is DAY ONE of reintroduction (more on that…
Girl (Writer) Code
I’m feeling stifled. I can’t say what I want to say about the article that everyone is touting as revolutionary because it would be anti-girl for the writer in me to point out that the…
Actors: What’s Your Ratio?
It’s no mystery that loads of actors submit on projects that go out on Actors Access, Casting Networks, any of the other reputable actor submission sites out there — and that’s on top of any…
What They Never Counted on Was a COMMUNITY of Actors
This is not a piece about how Talent Meet Rep, LLC — a company doing business in Los Angeles, New York, and virtually in several other markets ostensibly for actors all over the world —…
No Role? No Opinion.
Ah… I love it when a pattern emerges. At this weekend’s amazing SMFA Retreat in Los Angeles, it was clear that a lot of actors have been told a lot of things about what they…