Between 2019-2021, I blogged about the creative process and the business of being an artist. I did my best to cram-jam my posts filled with useful tools, tips and hacks and straight-up honesty from my own point of view.
My focus was figuring out how we can overcome our creative blocks, actually finish our projects and earn money from our art. I also shared the work of Black and Global Majority artists.
Take a look around or see the posts by categories: creative process, self-producing, artist life hacks, artist series. I hope you find something useful here.
I’ve been working on a new project about climate change (sounds awful but I think it’s going to be good 🤞). The research I’ve done, and the research I’m poised to do, is jet fuel for my creative process.
Today I wanted to share the beauty of research with you. Where it’s been a part of my work, how I conduct it, what the pitfalls are and why I recommend it so highly.
Read MoreFor years (years!) I’ve been promising to teach you what I know about commercial voice work – a career I’ve stumbled into, and which has changed my life significantly.
Read MoreBeing a voice actor has transformed my life. Here are 5 steps to help you get rolling as a voiceover actor, and open yourself up to a new, and potentially lucrative, revenue stream!
Read MoreMy unfiltered response to a Canadian friend’s questions about taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Read MoreI've been reflecting on the power of throwing our own parties.
In a sense this goes along with the philosophy that we are responsible for our own happiness AND with my belief that if you can’t get in the front door, build your own house! How did I get to thinking about this?
A couple weeks back, my debut memoir ‘The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale’ hit the shelves in book stores all across the UK. So, let’s talk about how I ended up being a person who has published a book!
The idea that incited all of this came to me while I was on the phone with my credit card company.
In 2006, in my final year of theatre school, I was cast in a lead role in one of our big shows.
I was so excited, but on our first day of rehearsal, when our director asked us to improvise the show, scene by scene, it quickly became evident that my classmates and I were grossly underprepared.
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