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.
Abigail Sewell is a film and theatre director. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Uproot Productions, a socially driven cross-arts production company with the mission of supporting Black artists. Her work centres Black joy and is driven by the transformative power of storytelling.
Read MoreNina Bowers is an actor & theatre maker, now based in London & raised in Ottowa, Canada.
”I make plays and things mostly related to escapism rooted in afrofuturist ideas and aesthetics. I spend the day writing, researching, and procrastinating.”
Writer, director and facilitator Sidney Belony grew up and is currently based in Luton.
Her writing explores social and political themes and she also enjoys creating work with historical elements/themes. Alongside writing, Sidney regularly works as a director and facilitator, co-creating/devising with community groups, and leading creative workshops.
Read MoreKiran Benawra is a writer and freelance TV producer who grew up in Slough and is now based in London. She studied English with Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham and then did a masters degree in Playwriting and Screenwriting at City University.
Read MoreKanika Ambrose (she/her) is a Toronto-based playwright and librettist. She is the Artistic Producer of Paprika Festival and this year, she is Cahoots Theatre Company's Canada Council Playwright-in-Residence, developing her play our place. Last season, she was Obsidian Theatre Company's Ontario Arts Council Playwright-in-Residence developing her play Reception (2018).
Read MoreMalik Nashad Sharpe, otherwise known Marikiscrycrycry, is a London-based choreographer who often uses choreography in contexts other than dance or performance.
They attended Williams College in Massachusetts, the Laban Institute in London and studied with Martin Hargreaves who they continue to work with in a dramaturgical capacity.
I asked Malik a few questions…
Marcia Johnson is a playwright, librettist and actor, born in Jamaica, who emigrated to Canada when she was six, and is currently based in Toronto, where she’s been working as a theatre artist for over thirty years.
Read MoreTitilola Dawudu is a Nigerian-born British writer, producer and editor. She is a trustee for Theatre Centre and an associate Writer for Beyond Face Theatre. She holds an MA in Dramatic Writing at Central Saint Martins.
As an associate with Tamasha Theatre, she co-created and edited Hear Me Now, Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour, published by Oberon Books.
Koko Brown is a multidisciplinary artist who blends theatre, spoken word and live vocal looping. Her work is unique, electric and brimming with what the world needs to hear right now on race, mental health and gender.
Read MoreI hope you’re doing alright, adjusting to our “new normal”. I’ve been dreaming scenes of wartime efforts – I think it’s my psyche trying to tell my conscious mind why I’ve found it all so destabilising.
Today I wanted to write about a new principle I’m trying to embrace.
Read MoreWhat to do when the blush is off the rose & you no longer care for the thing you’re creating?
Today I want to discuss that moment in our creative lives when we fall out of love with a project. I think of creative projects as entities unto themselves, and as a result, we are in relationships with them.
Read MoreThis week I’m doing my first ever Workshop via ZOOM.
My long-time collaborator, Mitchell Cushman, and I are working on my solo show about my hometown, Kitchener-Waterloo.
It’s is a storytelling show created through loads of research and interviews. In the show about 8-10 stories (from 1 min - 20 min) are told to the audience, but there are 5 options for each story ’slot’.
