The BGB Online Studio presents

75 Minute Pop-up Classes

with Risa Bramon Garcia + Steve Braun

50% of all proceeds will be donated to #FirstRespondersFirst, a fund dedicated to the frontline healthcare workers serving the nation during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Our mission during this pandemic is clear:

We need to give actors really affordable online training, AND help those in need during this unprecedented time of suffering.  So, we’re offering Pop-up Classes at $25 and donating half the money to first responders.  These 75 minute live Zoom sessions, led by Risa and/or Steve, will be chock-full of incredible tools for your career, your art, and your well-being.  Plus, signing up helps take care of those on the front lines of the fight against this virus.  We will donate on your behalf to First Responders First.

We’re excited to share our decades of Industry experience with you during these challenging times, and support #FirstRespondersFirst.

More On Each Class

How To Make the Industry Work for You NOW

May 1 at 12PM Pacific Time. 75 minutes.

Whether you’re looking to move to Los Angeles (at some time in the future) and pursue acting, or expand your artistry and career right from your hometown, this seminar-style class will bridge the gap between the Hollywood on the map and the Hollywood of your dreams.  Risa + Steve will give you the real-talk on How To Crack the Industry RIGHT NOW, as well as offer writing exercises to help you clarify and achieve your Industry goals.  The Industry will be forever different going forward and we want you to be ready for it. Q&A included.

The Self-Tape Clinic

May 8 at 12PM Pacific Time. 75 minutes.

Risa Bramon Garcia will share her Industry expertise gained from decades of watching and casting from thousands of self-tapes.  She’ll dispel the myths, cut the crap, and help you lay the groundwork for your own practice toward self-tape mastery.  This shift in your approach will not only make your tapes a joyful opportunity to live authentically on-camera, but offer an absolute way to BOOK WORK directly from your self-tape, from wherever you are in the world.  Join Risa for this LIVE seminar-style class with Q&A.

The Self-Care Practices That Book Work

May 15 at 12PM Pacific Time. 75 minutes.

This session with Steve Braun will focus on how managing your mental, physical, and emotional health translates into a successful acting career.  You’ll be offered tools to focus your self-care towards career success.  The Industry and the pursuit of the Industry can break you down, cut you into fragmented pieces, and re-wire your brain for sabotage and failure.  To be successful you have to push back against those forces to ground yourself, heal yourself, and make yourself whole so you can approach the work with joy and confidence.  Join Steve for these career and life-changing practices!

An Actor’s Consent: Navigating Vulnerable Spaces

June 5 at 12PM Pacific Time. 75 minutes.

This 75 minute seminar class with the amazing Intimacy Coordinator, Mia Schachter, will offer a framework for navigating intimate work in set, in rehearsal, on stage, and in class. It offers an understanding not just who is doing an action, but *who it’s for.* It’s about the agreement that we make with one another.

From Mia: We’ll talk about consent as more than just “permission,” but rather as a form of and a practice in communication: of boundaries, desires, limits, and needs. We’ll talk about generosity, gratitude, surrender, and integrity. We’ll talk about serving, accepting, allowing, and taking, and how to make sure everyone is on the same page about who is doing what and for whom. And this is for our work and for life.

We’ll talk about the difference between feeling uncomfortable vs unsafe. We will also discuss the intricacies of consent as being:

Freely given

Reversible

Informed

Enthusiastic

If you want to understand what intimacy work really is, what it means to give and ask for consent, and to advocate for yourself, these 75 minutes with Mia can change your life.

About Your Instructors

Risa Bramon Garcia

For the past 35 years Risa has collaborated with the most groundbreaking artists in the world. She’s worked as a director, producer, casting director, and teacher. Having directed two feature films, 200 CIGARETTES and THE CON ARTIST in Canada, she has also directed for television and dozens of plays in New York & Los Angeles.

Her casting résumé includes more than 100 feature films, TV shows, & plays, including movies such as SOMETHING WILD, DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN, ANGEL HEART, FATAL ATTRACTION, JACOB’S LADDER, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, JFK, THE JOY LUCK CLUB, TRUE ROMANCE, SPEED, TALK RADIO, and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER, as well as serving as a producer on Oliver Stone’s NATURAL BORN KILLERS, and THE DOORS, which she also cast.

She’s cast numerous TV shows, including ROSEANNE, MASTERS OF SEX, THE AFFAIR, and more.

Steve Braun

Steve Braun is an acting teacher and coach whose clients include lead and recurring actors from WHEN THEY SEE US, WESTWORLD, MR. ROBOT, FEUD, NARCOS, SNOWFALL, THE CROSSING, HOMELAND, ATYPICAL, GREENLEAF, SNEAKY PETE, THE NEWSROOM, CHICAGO LAW, TRANSPARENT, 10 DAYS IN THE VALLEY, MAD MEN, DEXTER, TRUE BLOOD, VAMPIRE DIARIES, THE BLACK LIST, CSI, CSI: NY, etc, etc.

While pursuing an acting career, Steve starred in movies such as HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE, WRONG TURN 2 and THE TRIP. He was a series regular on THE IMMORTAL and TWINS. He guest starred on CSI: MIAMI, CSI: NY, BONES, GILMORE GIRLS, THE CLOSER, NCIS, and THE MENTALIST, among others.

Steve draws on decades of acting training, Buddhist practice and martial arts training to help his clients discover and express their unique emotional truth.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Simon Quarterman

The BGB Studio has had a profound effect, not only in my work but in my life. It’s been quite frankly life-changing.
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PAMELA ADLON

Risa is a woman with knowledge, history, experience, language, depth… and balls. I would encourage anyone to take the opportunity to work with this extraordinary woman. My life is richer for the time I’ve spent with her.
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Daniella Alonso

Training with Steve at BGB absolutely changed my career. He gives me the practical tools and the confidence to book work. His insight, intuition, and passion for the actor’s process make working with him invaluable.
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DONAL LOGUE

Risa was able to make me, an agent-less, essentially credit-less actor at the time, ask the question — Why not me? She recognized the artist in me, brought it out, and helped me never to be intimidated by external circumstances that have nothing to do with what we do as artists.
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Anna Silk

I cannot express enough the difference Steve's class has made in my abilities as an actor and the impact it has had on my life. Thank you Steve, from the bottom of my heart.
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CHARLIE WEBER

When I found Risa and BGB I was searching for a missing ingredient to take my work to another level. The lessons I learned will forever change the way I approach material. Within a short time of putting this to use, I found myself landing the kind of role I had always wanted.
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For your career… and your life. Right NOW!