Risa Bramon Garcia has a career spanning over 35 years, working as a writer, director, producer, and casting director. She’s worked in theatre, television, and film and has directed two feature films, 200 cigarettes, and The Con Artist. Garcia’s directed for HBO, Lifetime, The Twilight Zone, and Comedy Central. Theartically she’s directed numerous shows in Los Angeles and New York and has been an integral member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre for 30 years. She began her casting career with her partner Billy Hopkins with the incredibly success feature film Desperately Seeking Susan, and since then her casting career includes more than 65 feature films, including The Doors, The Joy Luck Club, Speed, JFK, Wall Street, Angel Heart, Fatal Attraction, Twister, and True Romance. In television she’s cast beloved shows such as Roseanne, Masters of Sex, The Cape, and A Gifted Man. Risa is a teacher and coach at The BGB Studio (BramonGarciaBraun) with her partner Steve Braun in Los Angeles, California.
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- Risa Bramon Garcia’s IMDB
- Risa’s Backstage Articles
- The BGB Studio
- Conversation between Risa Bramon Garcia and Steve Braun
- Casting Directors Are People Too
- Casting By Documentary
QUOTES:
“Be vulnerable, but fight like hell out of that vulnerability.”
“I was frustrated with actors in the room, and I thought, I have to be able to help them through this, and that’s what inspired my teaching.”
“You are populating the landscape of the film with actors, with humanity, and you’re doing it from your knowledge and your instincts and your experience and your talent.”
“Your job as an actor is to affect people on some emotional level.”
“I don’t want to have the opinion, but I want to collaborate. I want my point of view to matter. You hired me for a reason.”
“Live the life of an actor so that an audition doesn’t define you, or wreck you.”
“There is no right and I just wish actors would really know that.”