1 Big Shift That Will Change Your Career
You’ve sacrificed so much for the pursuit of an acting career. You’ve invested so much. But it still often feels like guesswork. It’s likely that you’re not where you want to be in you career. [...]
How Improv Changed My Life
Improv – a game changer. Most people have heard of improvisation. They’ve seen Whose Line is it Anyway or a show at one of the prestigious Improv Theaters around the country. They are familiar [...]
12 Powerful Decisions to Get You to Success
You may be thinking, I train a lot and I do tons of theater. So what am I not doing? You are very likely doing the right things and you want your hard work and dedication to pay off. Rightly so. [...]
BGB PODCAST: What Dr. King Can Teach Us About Acting
He was a badass revolutionary, strong as he was brilliant. He fought to show us our humanity, spoke truth to power and suffered the consequences. And he was a masterful communicator. [...]
BGB PODCAST: Your First Step In January 2018
It’s 2018 and you’re gonna hit the ground running! It’s time for action! LET’S DO THIS! On second thought, wait… There’s something you may have forgotten. And [...]
BEST OF BGB 2017 – This is who we are.
When some of our actors book big fancy jobs and others are struggling to be and feel seen; when there is profound suffering all around and it feels like the world is falling apart; as some Women, [...]
Why Thanksgiving Is Good for Your Acting Career
Thanksgiving: the franchise player of America’s holiday roster. It’s big, it’s brash, it involves such a profound level of gluttony that its name is often changed to Turkey Day to really [...]
A letter to my daughter about the “Harveys”
Dear Gracie, Harvey Weinstein grabbed my ass. It didn’t faze me at the time. It was at a party, it was the 80s, people were drinking a lot and doing coke — a lot. And, at a loud crowded [...]
Play Your Way To A Booking!
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 [...]
An Actor’s Response To Tragedy
It all feels like too much; one devastating hurricane after another, never-ending racial inequality, horrific gun violence, political ineptitude. There is profound suffering everywhere. Any [...]
The Other Audition Technique
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, [...]
Show Us Your Humanity and We Will Cast You
You want to impress the casting director, producers, and directors in a casting room. You come in wanting so badly to do well, to know your lines, and to give them what they want, which is [...]
Tim Peper – Why I’m In Class
What I’m in class for right now is finding my generosity, my giving-of-myself. I know how to build what I need to build. I know how to accept that story as my own. I know how to connect to [...]
A Mirror Up to Nature? Hollywood Tells Me About My Body
Here is a blogpost from one of our BGB Actors, Kate Hamilton (pictured): I’ve gone back and forth about sharing this post for a while. A few months ago I shared a shorter version on my Facebook [...]
How to be Present in the Casting Room
By Risa Bramon Garcia I just watched some dailies of a pilot we recently cast and was thunderstruck with this obvious but powerful realization. The cast’s work was so present, so alive, so [...]
Making A Habit of Success
Determination. Motivation. Commitment. Hard work. Inspiration. Joy. All vital elements in the pursuit of success. But these elements have to have a focus towards something actionable. Otherwise [...]
BGB PODCAST: Turning the Current Fear into Acting Success
Lots going on in the world. And either you want to shut down and not get out of bed…or forget about it all and just focus on booking some damn work. But neither option gets you what you [...]
What to do with Big Election Feelings
Our Acting Studio in Los Angeles is an artistic home for a diverse group of actors. Los Angeles is an international city in a progressive state that tends to vote for equality and inclusion and [...]
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