Carving out a successful acting career is really hard. You need all the help you can get. And we are committed to leveraging our decades of experience to advocate for you and your career. Our BGB Career Master Classes offers a step-by-step walkthrough for some of the most challenging aspects you will face in your career. Born from current, real-world experience working in the Industry and guiding actors to success, each class gives you the essential and practical tools to turn any Industry and career hurdle into an opportunity.
To be a successful actor, you need to be driving your career forward with clear intention, deep intelligence, and specific, focused action. The BGB Career series of Master Classes shows you exactly how to do it.
Our ON DEMAND classes are recorded from the LIVEs and available to you to watch, study, and master in your own time.
How To Level Up Your Career!
Find out more here!After decades in the Industry, guiding actors from obscurity to success (even during the pandemic), we have answers. And we're going to tell you what you need to do to jump-start your career.
Our ON DEMAND classes are recorded from the LIVEs and available to you to watch, study, and master in your own time.
How To Get (and KEEP!) An Agent
Find out more here!After decades of working with agents and managers and guiding actors to strong, lucrative relationships with their reps, we're here to tell you that it's possible. And more than that, we're going to tell you how to do it. Step-by-step.
For the past 40 years Risa has collaborated with the most groundbreaking artists in the world. She’s worked as a director, producer, casting director, and teacher. Having directed two feature films, 200 CIGARETTES and THE CON ARTIST in Canada, she has also directed for television and dozens of plays in New York & Los Angeles.
Her casting résumé includes more than 100 feature films, TV shows, & plays, including movies such as SOMETHING WILD, DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN, ANGEL HEART, FATAL ATTRACTION, JACOB’S LADDER, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, JFK, THE JOY LUCK CLUB, TRUE ROMANCE, SPEED, TALK RADIO, and FLIRTING WITH DISASTER, as well as serving as a producer on Oliver Stone’s NATURAL BORN KILLERS, and THE DOORS, which she also cast.
She’s cast numerous TV shows, including ROSEANNE, MASTERS OF SEX, THE AFFAIR, and more.
Steve Braun is an acting teacher and coach whose clients include lead and recurring actors from WHEN THEY SEE US, WESTWORLD, MR. ROBOT, FEUD, NARCOS, SNOWFALL, THE CROSSING, HOMELAND, ATYPICAL, GREENLEAF, SNEAKY PETE, THE NEWSROOM, CHICAGO LAW, TRANSPARENT, 10 DAYS IN THE VALLEY, MAD MEN, DEXTER, TRUE BLOOD, VAMPIRE DIARIES, THE BLACK LIST, CSI, CSI: NY, etc, etc.
While pursuing an acting career, Steve starred in movies such as HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE, WRONG TURN 2 and THE TRIP. He was a series regular on THE IMMORTAL and TWINS. He guest starred on CSI: MIAMI, CSI: NY, BONES, GILMORE GIRLS, THE CLOSER, NCIS, and THE MENTALIST, among others.
Steve draws on decades of acting training, Buddhist practice and martial arts training to help his clients discover and express their unique emotional truth.