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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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 [...]
AWRS (August Wilson Reading Series) at BGB 2017
“The Commonalities of all culture within the life I know best – which is black life, that’s who I am – I’m gonna express that. That’s what I am – I’m gonna express that. That’s what I want my [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Why Isn’t the Industry Chasing You?
What does it take to declare artistic independence? To decide that you don’t have to wait for the industry, for anyone, to allow you to be an artist? To take command of your career and express [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pilot Season, The Oscars, and You
Pilot Season descends upon the town like a dense fog, lighting at first a flame of hope and excitement in every actor’s heart that is then diminished a month or so later by the reality of it all [...]
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, Your Agent, and You
Agents and managers. Whether you have one or not, most actors have a complicated relationship with agents and/or managers. You want them, you think you need them, once you get one you wonder if [...]
The Pilot Season Checklist
Get ready for Pilot Season! Being ready for whatever Pilot Season throws at you isn’t easy. “Can you be in Burbank in 20 minutes to read for the director?”, is the kind of phrase that gets [...]
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 [...]
Ben Lear – Actor / Writer / Filmmaker
Actor of BGB: Ben Lear has stepped behind the camera and made a powerful documentary, THEY CALL US MONSTERS. This has been a passion project he worked on for several years which evolved into this [...]
BGB PODCAST: Financial Independence
It’s time to declare your independence from the fear of money. It’s time to take command of your finances. Actor/Tax Preparer Chris Dotson offers tips on how to handle your money. [...]
Actors Needed
In times of tragedy, when a long-oppressed people are targeted by a warped mind determined to silence the beautiful expression of Pride for a community that requires it to survive in a [...]
Our LGBTQ Actor Roundtable
Risa & Steve sat down with Cassandra Clark, Felipe Figueroa, Frankie Kraft, Deborah Puette & Puppett, 5 LGBT+ actors from our community, to hear their thoughts on the work, the business [...]
BGB PODCAST: It’s Time To Stop Sabotaging Your Career
SABOTAGE! We all do it. Your resistance is sneaky, and left unchecked can find new and interesting ways to keep you from creative and professional success. Are you getting in your own way? [...]
A BGB Sit Down with Michael Sheen
There is a great deal to be said for the community of artists. The coming together of creative beings with a shared need to create. This coming together is what allows us to realize the [...]
What Does Specificity Really Mean?
The other night I was out with a few friends, and a young woman walked in with a female friend of hers wearing an odd shaped white hat on her head. It made for conversation for a few minutes as [...]
BGB PODCAST: How To Get Your Money
The business is changing and you have to find a way to pay your bills in this new economy. You may have to shift your focus, look deeper and think about money differently. It’s time to look [...]
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 [...]
BGB PODCAST: Want Acting Success? It’s Time to Change
You’re in a business that is constantly changing. In fact change is the only constant. And if you’re not seeing the business for what it is, and adjusting as it changes, you may be [...]
Coming to America: 5 Tips for International Actors Moving to L.A.
You live outside the U.S.—in Rome, Sydney, Hong Kong, or Berlin—and you are an actor. It’s not just that you dream of red carpets and mansions in the Hollywood Hills. No, you hear the calling; [...]
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