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Podcasts by Marysia Trembecka of LoveYourCreativity.com to make you smile & motivate you to create & put your art out there whether you are an artist or an actor. Interviews & advice with creatives from directors to authors + Marysia[...]
Love Your Creativity.com. Interviews with creatives with their advice on keeping motivated & moving forward, whether you are a actor, painter or a musician. Plus Marysia's fun weekly newsletter & 13 minute task of the day to keep you creating.
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Riding on the Rollercoaster Of A Creative Life
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How to be a successful creative: create in the corners of your life
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Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:23:08 +0000
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Journal your inner critic & learn from her!
https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/10/11/journal-your-inner-critic-learn-from-her/
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Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:09:12 +0000
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18 tips on writing a Press Release & Bios
https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/10/07/16-tips-on-writing-a-press-release-bios/
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6 practical ways to super charge your creative career
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100 days of being an actress: have an elevator pitch!
https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/15/100-days-of-being-an-actress-have-an-elevator-pitch/
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Thu, 15 May 2014 11:11:25 +0000
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How to book auditions: This is who I am, would you like it? Paul Clayton on auditions & making money as an actor
https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/04/23/how-to-book-auditions-this-is-who-i-am-would-you-like-it-paul-clayton-on-auditions-making-money-as-an-actor/
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Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:30:53 +0000
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I know Paul Clayton (imdb link) not just from his many many TV and film appearances (Ali G Indahouse, Peep Show, Him and Her and he is recently deceased in Hollyoaks) but also he is the Chair of the Actors Centre and in January this year he played m[...]
I know Paul Clayton (imdb link) not just from his many many TV and film appearances (Ali G Indahouse, Peep Show, Him and Her and he is recently deceased in Hollyoaks) but also he is the Chair of the Actors Centre and in January this year he played my husband in Sunday Dinner With The Morgans
He has a lifetime of knowledge about the acting industry and at a time when he found his work was slacking of he set up his own company doing corporate work as an actor and wrote a great book about it.
Here are some of the highlights of my interview (this is not a full transcript)
The one thing I have picked up myself is that acting is a business. From Paul’s book
‘Actors often have little choice in their career, they often have to wait at the will of others for decisions to be made that will affect their future.”
I asked Paul what the best way for actors to feel they have control of their career given we can get to the last two and then not book the role, or have long periods of not working.
Paul in his very first job was told by a lovely actress Dilys Hamlet, on the first day of the rehearsal and said ‘You read that beautifully, you know that when you’re forty you will never stop’. This was when he was 21.
The 19 years in between he did some good work but she was right he got into his own weight. At 40 and 50 he has seen big surges in his career. Paul settling down in a relationship at the age of 40 and that coincided with knowing himself as a person.
As a young actor he would walk into a room feeling confident but giving it ‘what would you like me to be’ However he doesn’t think that works.
I think you have to go in saying ‘This is what I am, would you like it?’
He is the best Paul Clayton there is, some people may be breathing a sigh of relief that there is only one. Obviously there are some parts he would love to do but he is not right for, it is not that he isn’t good, just that he isn’t right for it.
He was pencilled for a very big voice-over last week and then his agent said ‘Oh they went the other way.’ They have gone the other way because of something they heard in that other person’s voice.
What wins people over is you the person, that is what we bring to acting. Some people confuse this with typecasting but what we bring is our own uniqueness and a lot of our life is about finding out who we are and when we settle into that we know what we are selling as it were.
I mention how now I know I play yummy mummies very well and crazy strong women. Occasionally they merge as with the film I did with Paul where I played a coke snorting yummy mummy. The work for me has improved since I have fallen or rather grown into these categories.
A good friend said to his partner that ‘the thing about Paul is that he has made a career from being either stern or camp’. Paul is sure he has done the two together. He always jokes he has made a career about being posh or Northern and on a really good day he plays a posh Northerner.
There is truth that the more you single it down the more people know what they are looking at. He knows that when he did Peep Show 7 years ago that that just opened up a whole new area as it was brilliant writing and the audience could identify a type and then to know what to send Paul up for in casting. From that he went up for lots of dads in sitcoms and grumpy dads. It gets you through the door and that was interesting.
I ask how much have you pro-actively opened doors?
He had a great tutor at drama school called John McGregor and he taught the best class ‘Presentation Technique’ but he said
Every day do one thing that may result in work and then get on with being who you are, because who you are will result in you getting the work’
Paul directed a lot of rep in his 30s and thus did a lot of casting; you can see the desperation in some actors. You have the job until you open the door. and then when you step in the room, most of what you do is taking you aw[...]
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‘Don’t say no to life’ seasoned advice from Lynn Ruth who started stand up at 71
https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/17/dont-say-no-to-life-seasoned-advice-from-lynn-ruth-who-started-stand-up-at-71/
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Marysia Trembecka with Lynn Ruth Miller podcast interview (press the arrow above to hear the audio or go to my iTunes channel.
UPDATE Lynn Ruth is doing her new show ’80’ at The Marlborough Theatre May 8,9,10 and 11 @ 6 p.m for the Brig[...]
Marysia Trembecka with Lynn Ruth Miller podcast interview (press the arrow above to hear the audio or go to my iTunes channel.
UPDATE Lynn Ruth is doing her new show ’80’ at The Marlborough Theatre May 8,9,10 and 11 @ 6 p.m for the Brighton Fringe Festival 2014 details here
Here are some of the highlights (this is not a full transcript)
‘My mantra is that I am no different than anyone else, I just don’t say no to life. I don’t have a special talent, Any talent that I have developed. it didn’t start off as a talent, it started out as an interest, and I just kept doing it until it became an ability’
The reason she pursued this career in cabaret and stand up comedy at 71 is because she took a class in stand up and she was cheered by the audience, she had never seen love like that in her entire life, she thought that this is the most beautiful kind of love there is, (She was 71)
You don’t have to cook them dinner, you don’t have to change the sheets
Lynn Ruth started doing stand up at 71 and cabaret at 73. She is now 80 years of age and last year won the TOAST (Time Out And Soho Theatre) award at Edinburgh, the prize being that a two week stint at the gorgeous cabaret lounge downstairs at the Soho Theatre, March 11th to March 22nd 2014. Details here
I first met Lynn Ruth in 2007 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where I was doing my own cabaret/comedy show as well as hosting and producing the Midnight Carousel cabaret each night for C Venues. I would sing cabaret, chat and have six guests on a night and Lynn Ruth was my very favorite guest, she called her show then granny cabaret. I also saw her in Brighton Festival 2010 where Lynn Ruth was doing her show ‘Alzheimers, Alzheimers’ and I was with my great friend and colleague Elizabeth Mee as we were doing our show ‘Cooking And Cabaret’.
She is based in San Francisco and comes every summer for the last 7 years. She also did Britain’s Got Talent, an agent found her that way.
Simon Cowell’s criticism was absolutely spot on as her humour is about being old and you can predict where it is going. She picked the most predictable stuff and it is a big audience so she chose material that didnt make the audience think too much.
‘I am 80 and I am on my third car because I can’t remember where I parked the other two”
Lynn Ruth was a teacher and has several degrees in teaching, she believes you can spot very creative children as they don’t really get the rules, they are not so much naughty as they don’t understand the rules. Lynn Ruth has always seen a different answer, creative people seem to have a different version of reality. Her parents were Jewish and their goal in life was to blend in to society when they came to America. She never blended very well. Her heritage has no interest for her, she is always interested where life can take her.
She has always written and when you write you redefine the world in your own terms. She started writing at six and had a poem published at nine years of age. She was always surprised when people thought her writing was special. Her creativity was always words, not science. Always through school she came up with a different conclusion, not the accepted one which was viewed as a bad thing for her family and her society. She never had a conformist mind and yet thought she was normal but then years later her sister, who was very good at confirming, called and asked her to come to a party if ‘you don’t do what you do’ Lynn Ruth didn’t know what that was. (I can relate to this!)
Lynn Ruth has such freedom in her, and I love seeing that as a creative. Lynn Ruth always questions the right or wrong of art for example the role of directing. She is terrible at collaborative work but her current show is written with her pianist Robert Pettigrew as they have the same goal. She is loving having a real live pianist who follows her and makes her a better performer.
Lynn Ruth believes in the importance of the arts, that that is where the t[...]
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The Seagull podcast: the cast discusses snoring, comedy in Chekhov & finding a stuffed seagull
https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/25/the-seagull-podcast-the-cast-discusses-snoring-comedy-in-chekhov-finding-a-stuffed-seagull/
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Podcast of our forthcoming production of The Seagull with the cast members. James Mackenzie-Thorpe the director talks through the process of choosing to put on The Seagull whilst the frantic search up and down the country for a stuffed seagull cont[...]
Podcast of our forthcoming production of The Seagull with the cast members. James Mackenzie-Thorpe the director talks through the process of choosing to put on The Seagull whilst the frantic search up and down the country for a stuffed seagull continues with James insisting he does not plan to stuff one.
The cast : Jen Cooper, Lucy Danser, Michael Eriera, Grace Hudson, Ben Kernow, James Mackenzie-Thorpe, Nick Maxwell, Patrick Osborne, James Rose, oh and me, Marysia Trembecka
James Rose and I then discuss Trigorin and Arkadina’s dramatic scene in Act III and his transformation from the beginning of the play and Act IV. I follow with a chat with Jen Cooper whose advice ‘when in doubt use gaffer’ worries me as we are still discussing the stuffed Seagull.
The podcast covers:
Michael Ereira on the physical restrictions of spending lots of time snoring.
Grace Hudson insisting her Nina does come from Argentina.
Lucy Danser’s vital character research on alcohol at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Nick Maxwell on being a lecherous doctor
Ben Kernow on playing Medvedenko as Richard III.
Want to see what all the fuss is about? Then check out our viral teaser for the show: thanks Matt Aucott!
The show opens on Monday 2nd September and runs until Sunday 8th September. Performances commence at 7.45pm Mon-Sat and 6.45pm on Sunday. Booking in advance is advised (particularly for later in the week as we had to turn away people for some performances of The Tempest).
You can book by emailing londontheatre@gmail.com or by telephoning the box office on 020 8932 4747
Barons Court Theatre, The Curtains Up 28a Comeragh Rd, London W14 9HP
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Green Girl Productions are : James Mackenzie Thorpe, Nicky Fox and Jen Cooper
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Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it.
About Marysia and Love Your Creativity
I blog at least three times a week on creativity and techniques to get your art on.
Whether you are a musician, an actor or a choreographer I endeavour to make https://loveyourcreativity.com is a place to come for inspiration and motivation.
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Your dreams need YOU to be on their side to make them come true
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Link & info on my Resonance 104.4 FM show Thursday 18th July 8pm
https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/15/my-resonance-104-4-fm-show-thursday-18th-july-8pm/
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How to use ticket prices and prizes to improve your sales
https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/12/how-to-use-ticket-prices-and-prizes-to-improve-your-sales/
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Earl Okin: how to charm your audience & to succeed in Edinburgh Pt1
https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/07/09/podcast-pt-1-earl-okin-legendary-entertainer-on-audience-charm-18-edinburghs/
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Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:31:47 +0000
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Love Your Creativity is all about keeping myself and you focused on creativity whether you are an artist, actor, musician, playwright or film director
This is Part One of a Two Part interview with Earl Okin, and some brief highlights of the podcast [...]
Love Your Creativity is all about keeping myself and you focused on creativity whether you are an artist, actor, musician, playwright or film director
This is Part One of a Two Part interview with Earl Okin, and some brief highlights of the podcast are noted below. To listen to the podcast just press the arrow above.
I have posted this in two parts: he has so much great advice that I couldn’t bear to cut any, the first part largely covers his comedy, knowing who he is as an artist and the second his music making and touring.
Earl Okin, singer, songwriter, pianist, comedian
He was on stage at three years of age, has opened for Paul McCartney and Wings on their 1980s world tour, he is an incredibly funny and talented performer who has spent his last 60 years entertaining. Due to his family’s history he has echoes of the music hall but has “Entertainer” on his passport, a one man variety show.
He stopped in 2000 at Edinburgh having done 18 years straight, a record at the time of being most performed there.
His advice on doing Edinburgh – don’t spend any money you don’t have to, don’t take ads especially now the Edinburgh brochure has split up’, have the minimal number of posters down and not in technicolour as they cost more.
Info on your posters on big black letters, have a silly title ‘Whoops Vicky you’ve split the packet’, the fewer words the better as then you can print them in bigger font.
Stay somewhere very cheap, he was at the same place for 15 years.
Always drive, a car is invaluable in Edinburgh.
He has a wealth of knowledge on performing and music, he has a huge range of musical interests.
He has an incredible connection with an audience, you need to build up enough confidence to not give a damn. Be relaxed with audiences, he has died on stage but it is rare, he expects the audience to like him and that gives him an air of confidence as he walks on stage that makes the audience relax.
He always wanted to be the first Earl Okin, he is not an impressionist and does not want to be compared to anyone else.
He does not think of himself as a musical comedian as they few and far between
Dick James signed him in the 60s with the Beatles but his heroes were Puccini and Caruso and dresses like them.
One of his last Edinburgh shows ‘Musical genius and sex symbol’
Audience charm, you have to develop your own audience charm – that can have aggression in but there needs to be that connection, that twinkle. They have to like you and then they will forgive you your bad jokes.
He developed in folk clubs first, comedy clubs then having to make the jokes as lean as possible and then deliver it as if you had just thought of it. He tries the jokes different ways round, as do many comics. He sometimes stumbles over the words on purpose.
The comedy is about him rather than his material.
Writing comedy song is only judged about the words, the music does not matter. When writing a comedy song think one idea or taking off point. He gives a great example of this.
With a melody for a straight piece the music is the main thing, the words are largely irrelevant, you can hear the harmony under the melody and that carries the tune.
We finished with a jam, Earl on piano, singing and doing a ‘faux’ trumpet and me singing
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Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it.
About Marysia and Love Your Creativity
I blog at least three times a week on creativity and techniques to get your art on.
Whether you are a musician, an actor or a choreographer I endeavour to make https://loveyourcreativity.com is a place to come for inspiration and motivation.
I also podcast interviews and this weekly newsletter via podcast with a 13 minute task.
The dance music I use Londontown, is a track I wrote years ago and Andrew Hyde and I are currently working on 3 remixes of it. We will be releasing it very soon as a dance track, dub step mix and bar mix.[...]
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Trust the vision (board) Luke, let it guide your next step.
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How do I find casting opportunities? Some thoughts
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How to be the boss of you: The Superpowers of deadlines. Post 7
https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/10/how-to-be-the-boss-of-you-the-superpowers-of-deadlines-post-7/
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Fri, 10 May 2013 19:30:39 +0000
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“Some Small Love Story” – simple beautiful storytelling
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