The Acting Podcast from The BGB Studio
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The Acting Podcast from The BGB Studio
The Acting Podcast with Risa Bramon Garcia (director, casting director, producer) & Steve Braun (acting coach, communication consultant), founders of The BGB Studio, takes you inside the craft, the casting room, and the business- and bringing other Industry experts into the conversation- we dig into...
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Ep. 61: Clayton Farris: Funny Guy Goes Deeper
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Ep. 60: How to Be Awesome - Answers to Your Burning Career Questions: Part 1
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Ep. 59: Rebuilding your Career, your Community, & YOU as an Actor
At our most recent BGB Actors Summit, Risa and Steve gathered with actors from all over the world- from Rio de Janeiro to Mumbai, from Glasgow to San...
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Hunting Season
“A story, in three parts, about Catfish Queens, Virgin Marys, and Losing your Damn Mind in the Mississippi Delta”
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Saturday Boy
“A tale driving you into the heart of car bonnets, old ladies and existential dread”
The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night One: Sydney Walsh
Losing My Religion
“It’s 1992… painting houses, a break up, a presidential election, and poetry”
The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night One: Benjamin Earl Turner
Murder at Heaven Avenue
“A mountaintop revelation changed everything”
The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night One: Bernard White
Muqtada’s Room
“An invitation to stay in bed gets him out of bed and into the dream”
The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night One: Nick Ballard
The Creek
“Things left said”
The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night One: Doug Tompos
Incomplete Knowledge
“Desire spirals into obsession amidst the labyrinthine canals of Venice.”
The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night Two: Paul Cassell
Cynthia Continued
“A bitter green salad and the awful reality of transactional relationships”
The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night Two: Kyle Secor
Trastevere
“Impossible moments and a Maestro’s long game”
The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night Two: Katie Savoy
Found Words
“A trip to Wales to find connection led to more than she could have ever imagined”
The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night Two: Clay Wilcox
Hand Tools
“Hand tools and family trees”
The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night Two: Leslie Murphy
You’ve Been Lurking Here
“A hazy memory of treasure and ruin in New Mexico”
The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night Two: Daniel Rubiano
Sidenotes
“Hope = the fire in the rear view is smaller, the further we get”
Ep. 58: Horror, Genres, & the Romance of Acting in the 80s! w/ Risa, Syd & Corey
It’s Horror month. Halloween… and all. 🎃
In the spirit of spooky movies, I talk with 2 of our amazing BGB Master Teachers, Sydney Walsh & Corey...
Ep. 57: Stepping into Abundance
An actor's mindset can make or break a career. Your job is to open your heart, remain sensitive and open. And you’re asked to do that job in an Indust...
Ep. 56: Risa & Anthony Meindl in Process
Risa talked on Zoom with with Anthony Meindl of fellow acting studio, AMAW (which is Anthony Meindl's Acting Workshop) about EVERYTHING… about art, bi...
Ep. 55: What are You Waiting For? You Are The Industry.
Risa sat down with some of our amazing BGB teachers (Cate Cohen, Sydney Walsh, Corey Parker, and David DeSantos) for an inspiring conversation about r...
Ep. 54: What Does It Take to Make it Now?
Change is the only constant and the changes have come fast and hard. So what is the Industry now? What does it mean to be an Actor right now? What doe...
Ep. 53: Finding Freedom & Power in Script Analysis
“Script Analysis” is an often misunderstood term that can result in an actor robbing a scene of its art by reducing it to mathematical calculations. S...
Ep. 52: How to Stand Out from Hundreds of Other Actors
An actor who books work consistently is an actor who has the capacity to remain vulnerable in the face of intense rejection, to stay focused in a worl...
Ep. 51: 3 Powerful Lessons of 2023
2023 was a really intense year. Two strikes, wars, a contracting Industry, inflation, lingering effects of the pandemic, etc. And that intensity revea...
Ep. 50: The Strike is Over. Here’s What to Do Now.
Ok, so the Industry is back. But it won't be business as usual. It can't be. Too much has changed. And if you want to book work in this new reality, y...
Ep. 49: How to Redefine Your Career For This Moment
This is a new world for actors. And the Industry that emerges on the other side of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes will be different than anything we've...
Ep. 48: John Frank Levey, Casting Director: Finding His Role
John Levey loves his job. He loves actors. He loves storytelling. He loves diving into the worlds each character inhabits. He’s been loving it for 40...
Ep. 47: A.I. is coming for your jobs. Here's what to do.
Generative A.I. is not the future. It is here. Now. And as the technology gets better and better, and audiences become less able to discern whether or...
Ep. 46: What to do when The Industry Stops
We wholeheartedly support the writers as they fight for what they rightly deserve. And also, a strike means that the Industry is slowing/shutting down...
Ep. 45: The Healing Required to Be an Actor
As an actor, your vulnerability and emotional sensitivity are not only tools of your art. They are your products. But being a sensitive person in an...
Ep. 44: A Recovering Casting Director: Why CD Michelle Allen Walked Away From Casting
Actors can often see CDs as faceless, soulless gate-keepers with the potential to grant wishes or kill dreams. This perception is not only wrong, but...
Ep. 43: How To Be A Happy Actor
In a business this competitive, navigating the slings and arrows to find happiness is a revolutionary act. Pursuing an acting career is hard. Heck, ju...
Ep. 42: That Next Level Shit
Beyond the BS- mastering the latest audition/self-tape “trends,” getting the hottest agent or hiring the best personal trainer- there exist the real,...
Ep. 41: Fighting Isolation: Why You Need an Artistic Community
An artistic community is an essential part of your success. In order to do amazing audition/self-tape work consistently, you'll have to combat the iso...
Ep. 40: Opening the Door to Commercial Casting: with Danielle Eskinazi & Renita Gale
Risa sat down to talk about the Commercial Casting world with not one- but two incredibly talented commercial casting directors. Danielle Eskinazi (to...
Ep. 39: The Self-Tape Crisis
Risa and Steve sat down to talk about the Self-Tape crisis- an actual creative and professional crisis that actors, casting directors, agents, manage...
Richard Hicks, CD: We’re All In This Together
Richard Hicks is a Casting Director for film, television and theatre (see bio below). He’s done it all, he loves it all, and his work is beautiful. We...
Jason Clodfelter: A Journey from Actor to Writer to Co-Prez Sony Pictures Television
Jason Clodfelter is hardly whom you might think of when you imagine a big Hollywood Studio TV (Co) President. He’s sensitive, caring, personable, char...
The Pursuit of Happiness - with Caroline Lindy, Dominic Burgess, Ellyn Jameson & Johnathan McClain
Nothing makes Risa and Steve happier than creating space and facilitating a path for actors to find their voices as creators: filmmakers, writers, dir...
Ep. 35: Is It Time To Give Up Acting?
Every actor will inevitably find themselves in the desert, struggling to make it all work. At many points along the way, you will look at yourself in...