“YOUR APPROACH IS SO SIMPLE YET SO POWERFUL, IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE IT WORKS. BUT IT DOES! IF YOU HAD ANY IDEA HOW MUCH MONEY I WASTED ON ACTING COACHES, TEACHERS, AND CASTING DIRECTORS.”
Gil Junger has directed 5 feature films including 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU that defined a generation – over 250 episodes of Network TV including the transformative COMING OUT episode of ELLEN. His next film, Saving #7, shoots spring of 2025. Followed by, 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT MARRIAGE, shooting 2026.
Gil formed the Breakthru Company as his love letter to the thousand of actors he’s worked with. His mission; to inspire and empower actors to disregard their self-limiting beliefs and uncover their yet to be explored creative genius.
WHAT MAKES THE BREAKTHRU COMPANY DIFFERENT?
- THE BREAKTHRU COMPANY understands that the CREATIVE BRAIN processes and CREATES very different than a neurotypical brain – it is from that unique vantage point, Breakthru enhances your creative flow
- Gil’s audition prep is ANTITHETICAL to traditional audition classes
- His approach has been called RADICAL, REVOLUTIONARY , BLASPHEMOUS, but is most often referred to as LIFE-CHANGING
As well as emerging talent, director Gil Junger has worked with groundbreaking Hollywood actors including: Heath Ledger, Megan Fox, Julia Stiles, Ellen DeGeneres, Josh Duhamel, Sandra Bullock, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway, Oprah Winfrey, Kathy Bates, Laura Dern, Jenna Elfman, Jennifer Love Hewitt and thousands more… he even directed himself, but wasn't very good.
