Tag Archives for: "Casting"
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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