2021: Multi-Emmy-winning director and author Mary Lou Belli sits down with author and Emmy-honored casting director Bonnie Gillespie to chat about discernment in #CreatingTheHollywoodWeWant, avoiding resentment, and how to be ready for mentorship.
2021: Here’s the chat from our live session!
2020: Multiple-Emmy-winning director, prolific author, and showbiz mentor Mary Lou Belli jams with author and Emmy-honored casting director Bonnie Gillespie about learning from every audition, how to conquer nerves, and the recipe for making it in Hollywood (and in life).
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Mary Lou Belli, a two-time Emmy award winner, has been directing television for more than 20 years. She has done groundbreaking work on webseries and her award-winning short, America, just won The Hague Fest. Through her teaching, she supports many vibrant diversity programs including the DGA, ABC/Disney, CBS, Sony, HBO Access, AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, and Warner Bros. Directing Workshop mentoring the next generation of directors. She is the co-author of four books: The NEW Sitcom Career Book, Acting for Young Actors, PERFORM: Acting for the Screen, and Directors Tell the Story which she co-wrote with fellow DGA member Bethany Rooney. She taught directing at USC for 10 years.
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