Barbara Barna's expertise in interview skills is rooted in the mother of all interview forms: television. As a television casting guru, Barbara has a track record for recognizing new and emerging talent, casting a wide net in her searches to include genres such as television, radio, print/online media, comedy, animation, off-Broadway, food, fashion, interior design, sports, music and film. All of these genres and disciplines came together in her work casting Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. Clients include broadcast and cable networks and production companies such as Brillstein Grey, Scout, Bravo/NBC, the WB, Discovery Networks, SpikeTV, amc, WE and Lifetime.

Prior to launching her own casting firm, Barbara was the Director of Talent Development at VH1. Among the many projects she was responsible for at VH1, Barbara cast channel and show hosts, many unknown at the time, including Jeff Probst (Survivor/CBS) on Rock and Roll Jeopardy and Wayne Brady (The Wayne Brady Show/ABC) on Vinyl Justice. She also helped create The RuPaul Show and Sex, Lives and Videoclips with Candace Bushnell (while the author was still actively writing her acclaimed Sex and the City column for The New York Observer), and was an original talent executive on the VH1 Fashion Awards.