Gayla Goehl
Private Acting Coach/Acting Teacher
Gayla Goehl maintains a high profile list of private coaching students including young budding starlet Ryan Newman (Zoom, Monster House) and Kaycee Stroh (High School Musical). 

Currently she is also the Senior Associate at Gary Spatz’s “The Playground” A Young Actor’s Conservatory located in Century City.  She teaches the 2nd-year Advanced On-Camera classes for children and teens as well as eight weekly classes to beginning and advanced 1st year students.

She also had the privilege to be a teaching consultant for Hollywood’s famous acting school Theater Arts: Hollywood. She established the school’s first ever On-Camera Beginning and On-Camera Advanced Commercial classes.
Gayla also served as casting consultant and acting coach for the independent film Song of the Sea.  She also served as a casting consultant for the independent films The Pawn, A Mother’s Nightmare, Compartments and Lucid as well as on many independent shorts and student films.

Gabrielle Evans, is Executive Producer of “The Un-Invited Guests with Bill Devlin,” a new one-hour TV talk and comedy/variety show.

Evans is Founder and Owner of Wrong Way Films, LLC and serves as the company’s Executive Producer on all its projects.  The production company’s tag line is:  “Slower Traffic Keep Right.”

Wrong Way Films, LLC has three major films slated for 2007-2008 production starts; among them is Badfish: Story of a Punk which tells the story of Bradley Nowell, former lead singer and music extraordinaire.  The film focuses on a son, father, and friend – ultimately, the story of a punk.

Evans began to make a name for her when she returned to Southern California and was working on short films, Indies, and music videos.  She is well known for casting comedy, real people and beauty.  She prides herself in searching the world over—using a mixture of resources from talent agents to local contacts—to cast a TV show, film, print or commercial project.  “Working with renowned directors to the up-and-coming, no project is too big or too small and no stone goes unturned,” smiles Evans.

The former runway model has graced numerous magazines as an editorial model and for Playboy magazine; she appeared in Playboy’s Special Edition of the May/June “Sexy in the City.”

Evans was born and raised in Southern California, was graduated from San Pedro High School, and was a Dance and Marketing major at UCLA.

Anne Hulegard is an award winning actor, writer and director for Film, Television and Theatre. Inspired by her teachers Stella Adler and Uta Hagen, Anne has been a successful acting coach for over 16 years. Anne has performed in hundreds of productions including: hosting Up Close talk show, KCOX 12 News, starring in The Glass Menagerie, the L.A. premiere of Prelude to a Kiss, The Heidi Chronicles, Much Ado About Nothing, A Few Good Men (with Michael Trucco), Sight Unseen (with Matthew Arkin), The NYC revival of All My Sons (with Joy Franz), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and over 200 commercials and voiceovers.. As an acclaimed director, some of her credits include the West coast premieres of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Quiet End. Anne is the founder and former artistic director of the Hermosa Playhouse where she produced shows with celebrities like Donna Dixon, Robert Hayes, Richard Kline and David Birney and directed such hits as Lost in Yonkers, It Had to be You and the Celebrity play reading series (including Tony Danza, Len Lesser and Doris Roberts). A critically acclaimed writer; some of her plays include Greetings from South Philly and Rossetti’s Circle, her documentary Mothers in Prison was honored in Cable World magazine and her screenplay Out of Mind won a prestigious art fellowship. She is currently hosting The Good News and is in various stages of production with her TV and film projects. For more creidts and info www.hulegard.com

Anne Hulegard is an award winning actor, writer and director for Film, Television and Theatre. Inspired by her teachers Stella Adler and Uta Hagen, Anne has been a successful acting coach for over 16 years. Anne has performed in hundreds of productions including: hosting Up Close talk show, KCOX 12 News, starring in The Glass Menagerie, the L.A. premiere of Prelude to a Kiss, The Heidi Chronicles, Much Ado About Nothing, A Few Good Men (with Michael Trucco), Sight Unseen (with Matthew Arkin), The NYC revival of All My Sons (with Joy Franz), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and over 200 commercials and voiceovers.. As an acclaimed director, some of her credits include the West coast premieres of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Quiet End. Anne is the founder and former artistic director of the Hermosa Playhouse where she produced shows with celebrities like Donna Dixon, Robert Hayes, Richard Kline and David Birney and directed such hits as Lost in Yonkers, It Had to be You and the Celebrity play reading series (including Tony Danza, Len Lesser and Doris Roberts). A critically acclaimed writer; some of her plays include Greetings from South Philly and Rossetti’s Circle, her documentary Mothers in Prison was honored in Cable World magazine and her screenplay Out of Mind won a prestigious art fellowship. She is currently hosting The Good News and is in various stages of production with her TV and film projects. For more credits and info www.hulegard.com.

Dinah Kessler has over 30 years of experience in the acting profession. Early in her career, she worked with adult actors in commercials, voiceovers, radio, and modeling at the Abrams-Rubaloff Talent Agency. She later moved to a full range of other casting offices. As casting director at Barbara Claman, Dinah cast hundreds of actors for their roles in commercials, television shows, and movies. She then helped develop the agency’s children’s department. At Cunningham, Escott, Dipene, one of the nation’s largest talent agencies, she worked as a children’s agent for several years. Throughout her long and illustrious career, Dinah has represented countless child actors.

Dinah has been teaching acting classes to children, teens, and adults for nearly 20 years at her own studio with an office in Orange County as well as Hollywood. In her commercial acting class, called “Shining Stars Commercial Acting Workshops,” she individually video-tapes each actor. Additionally, Dinah teaches audition techniques, improvisation, cold readings, cue cards and pertinent marketing tools.  Her unique program is geared at giving the actor all the necessary tools needed for a long and successful career.  She receives referrals from the top, reputable agents and managers from all over California and over a dozen other states. 

Photography has been part of my daily life since I was four years old.  After I received my degree in economics from UC Santa Cruz in 1996, I began working with the studio and Kathy full time. I started as the full-time assistant, office manager, and courier. I started shooting right away and have been able to absorb the process almost as if by osmosis. The process does not just include shooting the pictures, but it includes the make-up, the styling and the imaging, as well.  As a Full Service Photographer, I have shot products from custom drums to vinyl windows, and musicians from rock and roll artists to classical tenors.  And most recently, I shot the West Coast Customs crew from the MTV show “Pimp My Ride.” 

My passion is faces. I enjoy the challenges of each new person, the different bone structures and skin tones. Things become really fun when I can combine this with the clients’ need to create complete marketing packages. I have learned from working with many agents that giving agents and casting directors as many options as possible is the best way to better one’s chances of success. A client may have a unique look, but one look is not enough. His/her true strength is in being malleable and having versatility.

Now an award winning producer, Jonathan Bogner has enjoyed an extensive career in the entertainment, edu-tainment, and Internet industries. After attending the University of California at Los Angeles, he worked as a film executive at Empire Entertainment, Epic Entertainment and Weintraub Entertainment where he helped supervise films such as: “Intruder,” “Prison,” “Ghoulies II,” "My Stepmother Is An Alien" “Bad Influence” and "Fresh Horses."
In 1995, Jonathan founded The BBC, a design and production company best known for producing a series of television specials for the Disney Channel: “To Infinity and Beyond,” “The Making of Toy Story” and “Every Picture Tells A Story,”  as well as producing the "Toy Story" and "Lion King" web sites.
Next, Mr. Bogner founded BEI to acquire, produce and finance films.  BEI created, produced and distributed the award winning video series, "Musical Classics For Children," "Mommy and Me," "Daddy and Me," and "Mr. Baby Proofer." BEI also helped launch ESPN2, Carl Sagan's Emmy award winning series "Cosmos", Encyclopedia of Rock’ Roll, The Faces of Life Magazine, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Blockbuster Video Movie Guide, and motion pictures such as "The Doors" for Oliver Stone, “Flight of the Navigator” for Randal Kleiser and "Pyrates" for Kevin Bacon
Most recently, Mr. Bogner was the Executive Producer for the “Sundance Film Festival” winner “Broken Saints” for Twentieth Century Fox, is currently in post production of “Conan Red Nails” for New Line Cinema, and pre-production on “Ace of Hearts” for Readers Digest and Twentieth Century Fox.

Shawn Brogan is the Founder and Agency Director of The Brogan Agency. In 1997 Shawn co-founded Allure Model & Talent Agency, headquartered in Los Angeles, California.  At Allure Shawn’s career and superb industry reputation flourished and in early 2006 Shawn Brogan launched the much-anticipated Brogan Agency.
The Brogan Agency is fast becoming a premier talent agency in Los Angeles.  They specialize in providing personal attention to their talent and are dedicated to developing them to their full capabilities. With models and actors from all walks of life, this agency makes it easy for any casting director to find just what they are looking for. The Brogan agency represents all ages and all types of talent. They are a full service agency with a commercial, print, theatrical and literary department.
With her diversified experience, exceptional creativity, industry-wide reputation, Shawn Brogan continues to improve on her strong career in the entertainment business.

Jay Johnson is currently a Talent Manager at Management 101 & BLT Management with Frederick Levy and Bryan Leder.  Before being brought aboard, Jay spent two years as a Jr. Agent and Assistant at Buchwald Talent Group, Don Buchwald and Associates’ Youth Division.  Jay is making his mark by continually signing new clients, such as Aris Mendoza, of “The Take”, John Leguizamo and Quinceañera.

Bryan Leder is a former casting director, has clients working consistently in both New York and Los Angeles, on stage in “The Color Purple” and “Phantom”, and on the big and small screen in NCIS, Monk, and the animated series Ben 10.

Frederick Levy is also a successful producer, having produced such films as Frailty, Reindeer Games, and Imposter and the forthcoming Unknown starring Jim Caviezel and Greg Kinnear. His clients can be seen in The N’s What Goes On, Saturday Night Live, CSI, and Tenacious D In The Pick of Destiny.

The above guest speakers are scheduled for the next event but are subject to change based on unforeseen schedule conflicts.