BGB PODCAST: Pilot Season Is Dead. Now What.
This time of year can make you crazy. Post-pilot season leaves a deafening silence that can make you crazy. It can make you search obsessively for a focus, somewhere to put your anxiety, [...]
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5 Ways to Prepare for Pilot Season Right Now!
“No! It is NOT time to think about Pilot Season. I’m still processing my trauma from last year!” Actually, yes. We’re here to inform you that now is the time to start [...]
How to Be Brilliant in the Room
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 [...]
Your Agent Isn’t Your Mother
How to Have a Healthy Actor/Agent Relationship Actors often approach an agent in deep need, having invested so much into achieving their dream, desperately needing to be validated. They can see [...]
5 Things to Know Before Stepping on a TV Set
A TV set is full of traps for actors. If you don’t have your wits about you and know what you’re getting into, it’s easy to let it get in the way of your work. But with a little research and a [...]
Make Headshots Great Again!
Make Headshots Great Again! The White House released the First Lady’s Portrait… to your left. We talked on FB Live about why this portrait of Melania Trump does NOT work, and [...]
In Defense of Your Agent
Conventional wisdom suggests that you need an agent and/or manager to make your acting dreams come true. They sign you, introduce you to casting directors who introduce you to the decision-makers [...]
The Pilot Season- Check In
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BGB PODCAST: The Perfect Pilot Season Moment
It’s almost here- that moment in Pilot Season when the desperation and panic reach a crescendo. In that moment, just as the town is about to implode, the clouds part, light emerges, and any [...]
BGB PODCAST: Pilot Season – Where are we right now?
Pilot Season is doing its level best to beat everyone down again this year. And we’re definitely feeling it here at the Studio. Risa and Steve give you the antidote to all of the [...]
What’s Working This Pilot Season
By Steve Braun + Risa Bramon Garcia It feels like there’s even more pressure this Pilot Season. This Pilot Season, more than most, it feels like this antiquated system trying desperately to [...]
Pilot Season Revisited: You Got the Power!
Every pilot season we suffer. We suffer through the pressure cooker of casting a pilot. We suffer through this manufactured marathon called pilot season, as hundreds of creators and business folk [...]
This Ain’t No Party. This Ain’t No Disco. It’s Pilot Season!
The bumpin’ VIP after-party that is Pilot Season is officially happening. It is so on right now. Multiple times a day insanely talented, stunningly beautiful actors are knocking it [...]
Thoughts from the Set of Masters Of Sex
We asked some BGB Actors about their time working on Masters of Sex, Season 4. What they learned, what surprised them, what they felt, what felt like home. Here’s what they had to say. What [...]
BGB PODCAST: How To Love Your Auditions
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 [...]
A Waiting Room Meditation
It goes like this: The email comes in from the agent, you get that hit of adrenaline and excitement. “I have an audition!” You read the character breakdown. “Leading man looks”, or “striking [...]
A Waiting Room Meditation
It goes like this: The email comes in from the agent, you get that hit of adrenaline and excitement. “I have an audition!” You read the character breakdown. “Leading man looks”, or “striking [...]
How to Get Casting Directors to Find You!
With Risa Bramon Garcia You wonder how casting directors are going to find you. Of course you do! Whether you have an agent or not, you’re out there ready to go to work and you want casting folks [...]
11 Things That Book the Job in the Audition Room
What books the job in the audition room? Who the hell knows? You can’t know for sure what will get you hired, and you just have to not care. Your focus cannot be on booking the job or on how to [...]
Not All Latinas Look Like J.Lo
Race and ethnicity in Hollywood are complicated things and being a dark-skinned Latina doesn’t make it any easier. Here’s the deal. I am Dominican-American. My mother and father were both born in [...]
A Simple Key to Success
There was “The Secret”—a hot subject for a while—and we all sort of figured out what that was: the law of attraction. What we put out is what we attract. Makes sense. And then [...]
5 Tips For Surviving Pilot Season
Pilot Season. It’s less of a season and more of an airborne bacterial infection, descending upon Los Angeles every year around this time. For some of us the symptoms will include five [...]
Why I’m Spending My Pilot Season Writing
I love lists. Checking things off. Feeling accomplished. I always prided myself in being a pro-active actor, I would make lists every morning, search for opportunities, send out mailings, tweet [...]
13 Things Never To Do In A Casting Room
These things have all happened, some more times than others. But it’s pretty crazy how our better judgment goes out the window when we put ourselves in the context of an audition room. We think [...]
15 Things Actors Do That Make Me Happy
1. You show up every day. You make no excuses. 2. You love the work wherever and whenever you’re doing it and you don’t complain. None of the “I’ve been a series regular for six years, and [...]
10 Things To Consider When Preparing Audition Material
Last week I participated in a casting director workshop and had two very different experiences with actors and their material. One actor chose a scene from “The Hours.” It was a [...]
13 Things to Never Say in a Casting Room
We’ve all put our foot in our mouth at least a few times but somehow, in the casting room, actors do it more often than they or we would like. Nerves, insecurity, neediness, and self-doubt set in [...]
Storytelling Your Way To The Callback
The practice of actors communicating with a live audience is the core of our art and the essence of our human connection. It is the campfire, the tribal sharing, the ancient ritual of [...]
9 Tips For Being Seen In Any Casting Room
We want to see you. We crave it. Whether in the studio classroom or in the audition room, seeing you fully, intimately, is the true definition of showing up. For us as your audience, your [...]
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