If you seek a career in the performing arts I say you and your well-being matter. Take care of yourself, and honor your needs and boundaries. You can only build a sustainable career if you treat yourself as worthy of care. It is very hard: you have to give yourself that care while also working at your art, while also finding a way to pay your bills.
Read More“Trans people are not monoliths. We are our own existences and our own bodies and our own human beings. We are capable of doing whatever we want. Trans people are in this industry and deserve to have space in this industry.”
Read More“For most of my life, I’ve thought the solution was: we need the predominantly able-bodied cisgender white males in power to point us to those doors that they’ve had access to for forever and show us how the locks work, how we can get a key made, where the hitches and squeaks are, and give us tips on how to walk through it without it caving in on us.”
Read More“Make sure you’re going into the arts for the right reason. If you want to move and affect people through storytelling, you can’t go far wrong, but if you’re in it for any other reason…DON’T.”
Read More“I've found that many don't understand the role of casting. Our job is to find the best talent for a project regardless of where that person comes from.”
Read More“I think we need to open up the pool. The oft-heard ‘well we didn’t cast an actor of color, because no actors of color came in’ just doesn’t fly.”
Read More“I would like to see funding for the arts taken seriously in our country. Hopefully, the pandemic is bringing light to how the arts bring valuable and necessary culture and income to communities!”
Read More“I don’t consider actors blank slates, I don’t want them to be blank slates. I want the whole of their humanity brought to the table, what makes them giggle, what makes them enraged.”
Read More“An actor website has always been important – but more now than ever before. With auditions going virtual, it often provides casting directors with their first impression of your toolbox. So how does a working actor ensure that their website exceeds industry standards?”
Read More“Instead of saying, “the director makes the final decision” and that we are not responsible, I am optimistic that we are standing up and calling things out when they are wrong, racist, inauthentic--discovering that we have more power than we thought.”
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