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About Barbara Brinkley
Barbara Brinkley has been working in the film and television industry for twenty-five years. Before making her foray into casting, she was a top agent in Houston and Dallas. Twenty years ago, Barbara decided to become a casting director in an effort to better represent all Texas actors.
During Barbara’s casting and production career, she worked as the primary or location casting director on over 30 films and television movies including “Love and Mary”, “Suspect Zero”, “Varsity Blues”, “Home Fries”, and “UHF” to name a few. Her experience and impeccable work ethic have afforded her the opportunity to work with all the major networks and studios. She has conducted numerous talent searches for projects with casting directors, producers and directors from the east coast, Maryland to Florida, west through New Mexico. Barbara has spent most of her twenty-five years in the ‘business’ on the road searching out talent and casting on location.
Dallas is where this Texas girl calls home. In Dallas, Barbara worked with Chuck Norris, Leslie Grief, Leonard Katzman and numerous others casting the “Walker, Texas Ranger,” television series for the pilot and three seasons. She also cast the pilot and 30+ hours of a novella for Spanish television, the first one ever produced and filmed in the United States outside of Florida or Los Angeles. “La Ley Del Silencio” was a real casting challenge and a true reflection of Barbara’s theory, “it’s not what you say, but how you say it,” since Barbara does not speak Spanish.
Barbara also cast, produced and directed eighteen weekly shows of a project for the visually impaired, Narrative Television Network that aired on the Nostalgia channel. This project involved a 20-minuet interview/talk show with a visually impaired host followed by a feature length film narrated within the finished film for the visually impaired. Using her extensive knowledge of the voice-over business Barbara was able to find all the narrators locally. This process developed by Jim Stoval of Oklahoma, the visually impaired host on the interview portion, was awarded a science and Technology Emmy in 1990. Growing up in Dallas, Barbara attended public schools graduating from Bryan Adams and then attending the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Fine Arts, finishing with her education courses at the University of Texas at Arlington. Barbara started teaching in an experimental private school in Dallas working with children with learning disabilities. Since then she has taught many children, teens, and adults in the film and television industry in Texas, and Oklahoma.