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The Acting Podcast
by Susan
The Acting Podcast with Risa Bramon Garcia (director, casting director, producer) & Steve Braun (acting coach, communications 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 the work, pull back the curtain of the Industry, and show you how much power you really have as an artist.
Episodes
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Ep 63: SOMETHING WILD: Risa & Billy talk Casting over the past 40 years
SOMETHING WILD: Risa & Billy talk Casting over the past 40 years I love talking to Billy about what we care about in our work. We came up together; we partnered for many years as Casting Directors and Producers; we worked alongside each other as directors in the Theatre in NY. We became who we…
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Ep 62: Casting Virtual Roundtable: CDs tell it like it is
Casting Virtual Roundtable: CDs tell it like it is ~A conversation with 6 brilliant Casting Artists~ with (in alphabetical order) Juel Bestrop, Randi Hiller, Billy Hopkins, Hedi Levitt, Bernie Telsey, Mary Vernieu & Risa! I sat down on Zoom with a few of my favorite people/artists/Casting...
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Ep. 61: Clayton Farris: Funny Guy Goes Deeper
Clayton Farris is an Actor. He’s a comedian, a filmmaker, a content creator, a great guy… and… he most of all is an Actor dedicated to being the Best Actor he can possibly be. Clayton is a long-time member of the BGB Studio, and Risa has had the privilege of working with him here and watching him...
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Ep. 60: How to Be Awesome - Answers to Your Burning Career Questions: Part 1
This is our 60th episode of The Acting Podcast 🙌 which is a big deal for us here at The BGB Studio. So welcome to #60, and How to be Awesome. You ARE awesome. Say that to yourself, maybe even in the mirror; try it! I AM AWESOME. Now let it land. It’s TRUE. And while this Industry may not see you...
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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”
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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”
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The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night One: Nick Ballard
The Creek“Things left said”
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The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night One: Doug Tompos
Incomplete Knowledge“Desire spirals into obsession amidst the labyrinthine canals of Venice.”
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The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night Two: Clay Wilcox
Hand Tools “Hand tools and family trees”
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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”
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The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night Two: Paul Cassell
Cynthia Continued “A bitter green salad and the awful reality of transactional relationships”
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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”
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The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night Two: Kyle Secor
Trastevere “Impossible moments and a Maestro’s long game”
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The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night One: Benjamin Earl Turner
Murder at Heaven Avenue“A mountaintop revelation changed everything”
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The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night One: Alexandra Wright
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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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”
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The BGB Studio Presents: The Stories Project | Night One: Dominic Burgess
Saturday Boy “A tale driving you into the heart of car bonnets, old ladies and existential dread”
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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 Antonio, from Buffalo to all over Los Angeles. They offered the fundamental and practical steps necessary to nurture and rebuild your career, your...
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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 Parker, on Zoom (so you can watch!) about what it was like to act in the HORROR genre- they each have starred in a few iconic Horror Movies. We talk…
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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 Industry that doesn't have the capacity to care for your needs and in which scarcity is the norm. You will lose faith. It’s inevitable. But how…
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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, big tech, climate change, self-tapes, casting, how Tik Tok is killing our attention span, and how things are really really hard right now. They…
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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 redefining your relationship with the Industry. About how to successfully step into your power in your work, your art, and your career. What...
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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 does it take to make it today? Risa and Steve discuss the current state of Industry, what actors can expect from the Industry and the essential shifts...
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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. Some actors love the idea of script analysis so they can “solve” the scene and control it. Other actors abandon the idea of script analysis…
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Ep. 52: The Art of a Successful Lifestyle
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 world full of distractions and to stay sharp in one of the most competitive Industries around. The actor who books work consistently has found a way to...
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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 effects, etc. And the intensity revealed some powerful lessons that every actor must hear and understand if they want to be a working actor in 2024. Risa and Steve reveal the...
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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, you're going to have to change too. So listen in and let us know what speaks to you! You can meet this moment, but it won't be easy. Risa and Steve...
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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 ever seen. The ways in which Actors have thought about their careers for over a century are, in many ways, no longer relevant. So, what's an Actor...
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Ep. 48: John Frank Levey, Casting Director: Finding His Role
John Frank Levey’s IMDbListen to other related episodes: What Casting Wants: 3 Top Casting Directors Tell It Like It Is Episode 12: - Bernie Telsey: The King of Casting Episode 20: - Sarah Finn: Superhero of Casting Episode 23: - Mary Queen of Casting: A Candid Conversation w/ Mary Vernieu…
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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 not the actor on their favorite TV show or movie is human or A.I., the Industry will choose A.I. generated actors over human actors. A.I. actors…
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Ep. 46: What to do when The Industry Stops
We whole-heartedly support the writers as they fight for what they rightly deserve. And also, a strike means that the industry is slowing/shutting down. For actors, that can mean fewer auditions and less hope of booking jobs. It can bring up fear and disappointment, especially after three years…
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Ep. 45: The Healing Required to Be an Actor
Your nervous system is your tool and your product. It’s also a sacred element of your being, through which you receive and process the world around you. Your past experiences and dormant emotions can fuel your work, but they can also make you miserable. You need to be sensitive to do great acting...
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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 it’s bad for an actor’s business. Casting directors are human beings who, like you, often struggle to do good work in an emotionally violent...
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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, just being an actor, an artist in a violent world, is hard. You can feel unseen, discouraged and lost. There are challenges at every turn. And yet,...
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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, less-talked about elements of success. After many decades in the business and a decade of guiding some of the best and most successful actors on…
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Ep. 41: The Importance of 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 isolation and inhumanity of the Industry with the collaboration, connection, and care that you only find from community. The right artistic community...
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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 whom Risa gave her first job decades ago!) and Renita Gale (see bios below) are both long standing CDs who are passionate and talented artists and...
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Ep. 39: The Self-Tape Crisis
Self-tapes are here to stay. But at this point in their evolution, they have the potential to consume you; to pull the entire focus of time and attention as you navigate the technical elements, the lack of collaboration, and the limitations of the process. We see a crisis in our Industry. The...
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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’re excited to have you listen to our conversation with Richard, and we hope that it humanizes casting directors even more, which is one of our...
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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, charming, thoughtful, and an artist - a fantastic writer, director, actor, and collaborator. Risa got to know Jason in class every week where the work...
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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, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, etc. When they started BGB, Risa and Steve brought their love of the process of creating from…
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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 the mirror and wonder if it's time to step away from your passion, your pursuit. Is it time to give up acting? Risa and Steve discuss this…
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April Webster: Galactic Casting Director
Often we think of successful Industry folks as out of reach and fancy and hard to connect with, especially after decades of huge success. And here at BGB and on the Acting Podcast we try to dispel that belief and remind ourselves that we are ALL human in this, we are all challenged, we are all...
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Why Acting Teachers Suck
At their best, acting teachers have the ability to create a healthy space in which actors can engage in the consistent practice of their art, deepening their awareness and understanding of themselves and the world. And also, acting teachers have a legacy of falling short. There are amazing…
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Owning the BROKE in One Broke Actress: A Conversation with Sam Valentine
Risa and Steve sit down in-person with Sam Valentine aka One Broke Actress. Sam is a working actor, a content creator, a coach, a podcaster, an actor’s advocate, the poster actor for the side hustle, with a significant social media presence and a foray into youtube, and the creator of One Broke...
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How to Have a Post-Covid Acting Career
In this first episode of Season 3, Risa and Steve talk about how to navigate this new and challenging time in order to find your way in an Industry that’s also redefining itself. We’ve all changed in the past 2 years, and now, Risa and Steve invite you to start with the following: Stop, look...
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Self-Tapes Don't Have to Hurt
In this conversation about that big topic: Self-Tapes- taking up most of the audition real estate- Risa and Steve offer ways in which you can move past all the (real, tangible) challenges of self-taping, even the trauma around it, and discover the freedom, joy, and deep curiosity you need to get...
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Not Just An Actor: Making Your Own Box
Risa and Steve sit down with an incredible group of successful multi-hyphenates- Milena Govich, Will McCormack, Grasie Mercedes, and Brea Grant- all of whom started their journeys as actors and have since grown into other roles in the Industry, making names for themselves as writers, directors,...
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Doing It All: Career, Art & Parenthood
Risa and Steve sit down with a dynamic group of actor-parents- Heather Brooker, Eddie Cahill, Anna Silk, and Cate Cohen- all with extensive and varied careers – to talk about what it means to be a parent while navigating their artistic careers & the Industry. They discuss their journeys, their...
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Getting Intimate w/ Mia Schachter: Sex, Consent, & Nudity On Set
In this episode, Risa and Steve talk with Mia Schachter- one of Hollywood’s top intimacy coordinators- about their role in the Industry + how actors can advocate for themselves in any situation with regards to intimacy, sex, nudity, and consent of all kinds. Whether choreographing sex scenes,...
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The Acting Podcast with Risa Bramon Garcia (director, casting director, producer) & Steve Braun (acting coach, communications 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 the work, pull back the curtain of the Industry, and show you how much power you really have as an artist.
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