Creation Comes From Passion

When the entertainment community is looking for a director, casting director, playwright, screenwriter or teacher, they need to look no further than Dara Bragg.  Bragg is giving performing artists in the five boroughs a one stop shop to further their careers and learn about the entertainment business.

 

A native New Yorker, Bragg is a multi-faceted, community minded investor.  Bragg’s commitment to sustaining creative arts starts with her. Her companies touch theater, film, media and fashion. She has written, directed or produced over 40 plays, co-founded BAB’s Filmworks and Theatrical Productions, Youth Making Moves and Females Making Moves and the founder of Deekyshaeel Entertainment & Just Blessed Productions and a contributing writer for SGIB Magazine, IFashion Magazine and Street Info Magazine.

 

In 2012 Bragg co-wrote, directed and produced the stage play, “A Christmas without Him”.  The play was such a hit with audiences who identified with the messages of war uncertainty and family angst that in 2013 she restaged it and is currently writing the prequel, The Jennings Family Reunion with co-writer and producer Charles Keene.

 

In 2013 Bragg threw her creative hat into the ring as producer of the feature film “Getting Even”.  And is currently making her hit stage play “Skeletons” into a film short as co-writer & director and a Web series; “Playas in the Pew” as supervising producer, producing The Jeans/Denim and Tees Fashion Show and is in pre-production for “An evening of Classic Broadway Theater”, which will reenact scenes from plays such as A Raisin in the Sun, A Soldier's Play, and Dreamgirls.

 

It is also important for Bragg to give back to the community.  In 2011 she founded “Success in the Arts” Seminars (SITA).  SITA brings established local entertainers together with aspiring artists to lead a series of panels and workshops on the ins and outs of the entertainment business to give a focused overview and impart secrets and skills on how to successfully start and enjoy longevity in the industry. 

 

Over three (3) years attendees experienced the “real” from many of New York’s industry alumni including author and actor, Kim Wayans, actor Julito McCullum (The Wire, Akeelah and the Bee), Kiki Haynes (co-star or Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse) and casting director, Wendy McKenzie (casting director for “Notorious B.I.G., Secret Lives of Bees, The Blind Side) and Conrad Dimanche (then A&R President of BAD BOY Entertainment, currently Founder, PMP Worldwide).  This year she will incorporate her companies into a 501c3.

 

Sharing her creativity, talent and expertise for over 20 years, Bragg continues to find new and innovative opportunities to advance the world of dance, theater, music, acting, producing, directing and modeling with anyone who shares in her vision of self-expression in positive and meaningful ways.  And although the first 20 years have been electrifying for Bragg…the next twenty will tell even more stories for the betterment and empowerment and of others, and she plans on taking up and coming artists with her.