Self-Management for Actors Seminars with Bonnie Gillespie

Self-Management for Actors by Bonnie Gillespie

The Self-Management for Actors five-week seminar with Bonnie Gillespie is all about giving a good workout to those weakest actor muscles: the ones that focus on the business side of your career.

In our five-week seminar, we'll do rockstar things like:

refine your marketing materials
nail down your primary type and learn how to target people who consistently cast that type
dish about best-fit agents and managers and coaches and photographers
discuss how to get on casting directors' radar when "the usual stuff" isn't working
identify and reduce bad actor habits
develop your personal pitch
brush up on networking tactics
strategize self-producing activities from incorporating to becoming a SAG signatory producer and from budgeting to distribution
connect with a supportive, encouraging, no-bullshit group of people

...all while having a blast!

After you're notified that you're in for the next cycle, you'll receive an email with information on how to prepare for our time together.

Wait? Homework? What?

Yup. The SMFA five-week seminar is filled with awesomeosity, but it rocks even harder (and so do you) when you show up prepared, open, and ready to kick ass. So, there will be a bit of prep work to do, once you start the process. There will also be homework throughout the course (about an hour or two per week, on average, though some rockstars spend many more hours than that on the homework, because it is so very empowering).

Rules of the Self-Management for Actors five-week seminar are simple:

Communicate. (We can deal with anything, as long as it's out in the open.)
Don't be late. (And, of course, communicate if you're gonna be late, so we know what's going on.)
Share your toys. (We all benefit from shared relationships and tips for working this biz and getting the most out of everything we experience.)
Give solution-oriented feedback. (We encourage brainstorming, talking about good ideas, suggestions for improvement, and positive feedback.)
Have fun. (If it's not fun, why do it?)

The bulk of our time together is spent on the marketing side of things, talking about what you've done (and could be doing) for your career (marketing and craft), brainstorming great ideas for moving out of stuck places, discussing audition tactics, discovering how to perform within alignment to your true "type," targeting the people in this industry that provide the best opportunities for mutual benefit, and building your actor muscles in ways you may not have even thought they could be strong.

Basically, we're here to facilitate awareness and growth for you as an actor--not to teach acting. You're a pro. You just need the support of knowing how to access your marketing abilities. Yes, you already have them. You just have to get the muscles conditioned and keep 'em toned.

That's what Self-Management for Actors is all about.

Ready to get on our email list to receive information about spaces available in our next five-week seminar cycle, starting up January 4th, 2012? Thanks! Click here. Need more nitty-gritty info about the registration process and pricing? Click here.

Are you Class Rules! alumni and wondering whether you have been invited to join us for our ongoing Thursday night Advanced Self-Management for Actors seminars? Make contact! We'll talk.

Would you rather tier-jump via our web-based version of class, at your own pace, stretched out over 12 weeks starting up again in January 2012? Or participate in our Ninja Maintenance Program? Good news! You can Get A-Listed HERE! :)

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Bonnie Gillespie