BGB teacher James Eckhouse has spent 30 years succeeding in the business. And he’s done it because he knows how to fight through failure. Listen to James, Risa, and Steve talk about why the work matters and how knowing your “why” helps book work. Listen… Take a class with James or our other BGB Master […]

Over the years we've seen every kind of actor choose every kind of path in an attempt to carve out a successful acting career. And most actors fail. In fact, after all these decades, we've only seen one path that works consistently.  And we're going to tell you what it is. But let's start with [...]

It’s all about showing up. You have to bring the full force of your creativity into the audition room, into your career, and into your life. The practice of play makes that happen. It’s time to disrupt old patterns, to discover and express the totality of your creative power in the audition room. To make […]

Another week, another self-tape. You didn’t get notes before hand. No one sent the script. There’s no one in the room to offer feedback or direction except your friend/Mom/camera operator at the self-tape shop. And none of them can possibly know what the decision makers want. All you have to draw from is a cryptic, [...]

Atlanta is hopping right now and in many ways the playing field of the Industry has never been this level for actors. From your apartment in Atlanta, you can capture your talent on video, send it West in the blink of an eye, and be considered for some of the biggest roles that Hollywood has [...]

The playing field keeps leveling. Gone are the days when only a select geographically-fortunate few would have the possibility of being seen for a big TV pilot. Self-taping is the new normal so you have to know how to shoot self-tapes that capture your extraordinary work at a moment's notice and with no-drama. 1. Breathe. [...]

Casting directors are your advocates and your champions. Your work reflects on us. Your wonderful work makes us look good and actually gets the role cast. Your disconnected, tentative, muddled work does nothing for anyone. We need you to be great. We’re here to host your experience and shepherd you in, not hold you back. [...]

You enter the audition room. Your heart is pounding so loud you that you can’t hear the casting assistant. Your mouth is dry but you left your water bottle in the waiting room. Your head is spinning on that one line you just can’t freaking remember. The casting director looks weary and indifferent. The reader [...]

2018 is the year of your Power. A shift in the collective consciousness regarding the old power dynamics in our industry has occurred. The patriarchal power brokers of an antiquated industrial model are being brought to their knees by brave voices demanding change. We’re not going back. And this is the perfect time for you, [...]

We all want the same thing. We all want actors to be absolutely freaking brilliant when it counts. But what can we all—agents, managers, casting directors, teachers—do to support actors so they audition with confidence and power? How can we squash the obsessive, crazy stuff that makes actors self-sabotage in the audition room and then […]

Bitterness is antithetical to art. Play is the cure. A practice of play keeps you engaged in the work for its own sake, keeps you focused on the creativity, keeps you in the practice of being positively reinforced for engaging in the work. A practice of play makes you dive into the audition material with […]

No actor is safe. There is always a reckoning. There is always a moment when your training, your talent, and your dogged pursuit of the business fall prey to the forces that sabotage, undermine, and ultimately sink your career. And the worst part is no one tells you about it. Indeed, there is another acting [...]