Class Details

Teachers:

Risa Bramon Garcia & Sydney Walsh

Class Dates:

Saturdays, October 2025. 6 Weeks.

Time:

9am - 12:30pm Pacific Time

Ideal for:

Actors looking to master every single audition!

Cost:

$545 USD for 6 weeks. $310 due as a deposit to secure your spot, $235 due after class 2.
**There are no makeups, refunds, substitutes, transfers, audits or deferments for any classes. (Cancellation Policy)

Location:

Online via Zoom

Sign-Up Now

Auditioning & Self-Taping keep changing. Here’s how to meet the moment with success!

If you...
•   feel you don't have a strong script analysis technique for auditions...
•   dread getting ready for a self-tape the minute it hits your inbox...
•   are constantly getting in your own way because you're trying to "impress Casting" or "be perfect..."
•   spend way too much time taping...
•   want to know what Casting really thinks about your tapes...
•   feel intimidated going into a Zoom Audition/Callback or an EcoCast Live (no do-overs, no watching it back )...
•   get completely triggered by the overthinking that goes into self-taping in general...
‍
The Online Audition MasterClass, led by Casting Director/BGB founder Risa Bramon Garcia & BGB Master Teacher/Actor Sydney Walsh, is a 6-week intensive practice that ensures you’re ready for whatever any audition throws at you by creating compelling, undeniable Self-Tapes and Zoom auditions. Risa brings her decades of experience as a CD to the process to help you let go of fear and navigate the casting process with presence, ease, and specificity, fully dropped into the story, all cylinders firing. Sydney shares her extensive, real-world experience as a working actor, director, teacher, and coach to show you a new, more authentic, more joyful, and more alive way of showing up on camera. And this MasterClass intensive guides you to create habits that serve you in building a lasting career.

The work...

In 2025, being an actor can be isolating. That's why we built The Online Audition MasterClass.

This 6-week online Zoom MasterClass with Risa and Syd offers instant connection, practice, and actionable steps that free and elevate your on-camera work. Plus every minute working in our Zoom space addresses every issue that confronts us in our self-tapes and zoom auditions. In ALL audition scenarios.
‍
Here you’ll work with Risa and Syd to:

Sharpen Script Analysis
Record your self-tapes for professional review and re-working
Get personal feedback and guidance
Practice a Mock audition and Callbacks
Prepare different genres
Work with physical action
Own entering and handling yourself in the Zoom room
Get real world advice and demystify the casting process

The material we work on includes a variety of scenes chosen by you, from provided folders and/or via your teachers, including material that is challenging and essential for 2025. The work is recorded so that you can continue to hone your auditions until they’re undeniable. Your recorded work will be sent to you for your PRIVATE review.

Casting Directors see more self-tapes today than ever before and they need an actor who brings in a wonderful breath of fresh air. Learn how to do this in your auditions by sharing characters who are living, breathing, three-dimensional human beings. Every time.

The Online Audition MasterClass helps you evolve your practice to include your most authentic self, work that is alive and multi-dimensional. And you get to do this work with like-minded, creative, supportive actors who work with you as readers and as colleagues.

Every Casting Director wants you to be who YOU ARE and is rooting for you. We are here to introduce you to a more effective and empowered practice so that you show up in your self-Tapes and Zoom auditions with confidence and creative power. Here’s the best part: After the 6-week Online MasterClass with Risa and Sydney, you're ready for the new Industry in 2025 and beyond.

"Risa loves actors. What a relief to enter a room with a casting director that wants to put you in the best possible place and head space to do your job. She doesn’t want to hear apologies or excuses, she wants to help you get to a place where together you create a moment or series of moments that are fearless, honest, and personal to you. She knows how to maintain that elevated edge the actor needs to step up to, and hopefully jump off of. Risa will not be there to catch them but she will be the most receptive witness of the actors' plunge. And she creates an electric room for those plunges to happen.”

- Mitch Eakins, TURN: WASHINGTON’S SPIES

"My experience with Risa is one of the most profound I have ever had as an actor. She helped me understand the basic principles of being true to a character in terms of finding the crisis. Her insights have changed how I audition, how I tackle this Industry, and not only how I see myself but more importantly how I believe in myself. I am indebted to her for making such a powerful change in my approach to acting.”

"Sydney meets you where you’re at. From beginner to advanced, everyone is challenged at their level. What I liked most is that she comes from an actor’s point of view. She has a deep love of artists and it shows. This class gave me my power back and helped me push through some self doubt blockages. After taking Sydney’s class, I feel motivated to continue my practice and keep growing as an artist."

This class is not an audition or employment opportunity and there is no suggestion or guarantee of an audition or employment as a result of taking this class.

The Online Audition MasterClass

Master Every Audition!

Class Details

Auditioning & Self-Taping keep changing. Here’s how to meet the moment with success!

The work...

Your Teachers

Looking for something else? Check out the other Audition & On-Camera Classes

Contact BGB