There's a fun little area in an actor's resumé where you can showcase information about you that your credits may not reveal. Bonnie Gillespie shares ninja tips for sprucing up your resumé's Special Skills section this week.

Bonnie Gillespie travels the world with Self-Management for Actors and there's always something to learn about our glorious craft when observing folks for whom we create it. Wanna be inspired? Get outta town!

There's a bit of dichotomy required to succeed in this industry. We're balancing the beautiful, limitless expanse of craft with the tedious, limiting container of targeted marketing. Bonnie Gillespie doesn't see targeting as limiting at all. It gets you to the money faster, and that gets you to your more expansive creative space (on the buyers' dime) faster too.

Brandprov is the ability to improvise on-brand. Some of us are great at this, and others not so much. In this episode of The Work, Bonnie Gillespie shares tips for strengthening your brandprov muscle through easy -- and fun -- drills you can do with your friends in person, on the phone, even online!

I don't know about you, but I could spend days in the office supply store, getting multi-colored pens and stickers to plaster all over my Trapper Keeper. Not everyone lives for to-do lists, though. If you need ninja tips on getting organized as an actor, this one's for you.

Creatives bring their content directly to the fans, thereby teaching the buyers (those formerly-known-as "gatekeeper" types) that there's an investment worth making. In this episode, we revisit an old piece to see how relevant the words still are *and* how something "so crazy" is now so much a part of our world!

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman Woof! Ain't that the truth. This episode is about how being behind the scenes (y'know, like the casting directors who cannot win Oscars since there is no such category) can bring on amazingly beautiful work, because it's all about the work!

Everyone loves to talk about competition, about rejection, about how many actors you're up against every day. What about the people who leave acting (or even the business, altogether)? How close might they have been to the big win?

Celebrate one of the most brilliant commercial bookers I know, Allyson Ryan. Her ninja move of cross-pollinating to celebrate a commercial booking helped cement her brand with me six years ago! How are *you* maximizing your exposure?

Once upon a time, I was crushed that my "Plan A" didn't work out. That was 20 years ago, as I was packing up to leave Hollywood, never to return (HA! It's funny how much we "know for sure" at 24). Hear about my aunt's brilliant "Plan K" talk here.