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https://loveyourcreativity.com From the initial spark of a creative idea to getting your projects finished & out there! Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:23:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/e82cdf867f3dcf128ce9504af3a51b96.png?s=48 https://loveyourcreativity.com Copyright © LoveYourCreativity.com 2013 marysia13@googlemail.com (Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows) marysia13@googlemail.com (Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows) Creativity 1440 http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q698/M013/LYCPodcastpic_zps3e343740.png https://loveyourcreativity.com 144 144 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. 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G+ & LinkedIn Marysia Trembecka creativity, marketing, author, musician, actor, novelist, positive, thinking, interviews, tips, advice Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows marysia13@googlemail.com no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/06/15/multi-award-winning-playwright-performer-claire-dowie-interview/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/06/15/multi-award-winning-playwright-performer-claire-dowie-interview/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:24:05 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3469 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/06/15/multi-award-winning-playwright-performer-claire-dowie-interview/feed/ 1 0:27:58 – ‘I just do it. ….when I say I don’t care, I mean I don’t care whether there is an audience, I don’t care whether there is any money,  it seems to just turn up, the money and the audience. I have never done anyt[...] – ‘I just do it. ….when I say I don’t care, I mean I don’t care whether there is an audience, I don’t care whether there is any money,  it seems to just turn up, the money and the audience. I have never done anything I don’t want to do… and why not? I think if you are true to yourself then it will be alright, if you are trying to be like somebody else, or trying to do like somebody else then it’s not going to work.’ Claire Dowie is a multi award winning playwright, actress, director, performer and oftentimes comic. Her plays have been translated into many different languages and her first novel Creating Chaos was published last year. Her two most famous plays ADULT CHILD DEAD CHILD is on the A level Drama British curriculum and WHY IS JOHN LENNON WEARING A SKIRT on the A level English Literature British curriculum. She is performing them alongside three other of her plays at the Festival of Solo Festival: Best Of The Fest festival from June 30th to July 12th. Colin Watkeys has directed her for over 30 years and is a well known solo theatre director and he interjects throughout the interview. Claire and I are doing a double header with her play ‘Why is John Lennon wearing a skirt?’ and my ‘The Singing Psychic’ show on July 3rd and the 8th at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington, London both plays directed by Colin. Thursday 2nd July  at 7.30pm  and Wednesday 8th July  at 7.30pmFor more details on the Face to face: festival of solo theatre and for bookings please go to http://www.solotheatrefestival.co.uk/ Hit the play in popup to play the podcast or go to the Love Your Creativity iTunes podcast In this podcast interview we cover how Claire feels about making the work, how she feels she is not an actress and how the characters dictate the plays to her. Inevitably given Adult Child Dead Child is about expectations and the John Lennon play about women growing up amid low expectations feminism, being a female comic or performer in still a very full on man’s world and how to create and work on a character. Highlights include How she feels she just sits down and reads the paper and her characters write the plays for her. This is however after she has spent a lot of time with the character, seeing how they react in certain situations How Claire feels when plays on feminism and women having a voice are still relevant according to the feedback she has been getting from the ‘younger generation’ How male reviewers assume automatically that men are funny and male playwrights are good and  yet when it comes to women, she has seen far too many men walk to the bar when a female comic comes on stage What it feels like to have other people perform your work How she always manages to write, make, produce and tour the shows: she feels the characters make her do so. How she doesn’t care about other people’s opinions when she is writing, that you must trust your own instincts and not listen to what you think other people want to hear, when you are writing a play The inspiration behind her Bob Dylan tarot cards Her advice to us all is just to get out and do it And a lot of laughter If you enjoyed this you may also like my podcast interview with Colin Watkeys about developing your own solo theatre show https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/ Both Claire and I are also taking shows to the Camden Fringe 2015,www.SingingPsychic.tv to book tickets for my Camden Fringe show of The Singing Psychic, Aug 17th to the 22nd 2015 at 9.15pm each night go to http://tristanbatestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-singing-psychic–camden-fringe-2015 or http://www.camdenfringe.com/detailact.php?acts_id=321 http://www.clairedowie.co.uk For Claire and Martin Stewart’s show http://www.camdenfringe.com/detailact.php?acts_id=179     Directors, Inspiration, Motivation, Podcast, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/21/riding-on-the-rollercoaster-of-a-creative-life/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/21/riding-on-the-rollercoaster-of-a-creative-life/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:00:39 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3388 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/21/riding-on-the-rollercoaster-of-a-creative-life/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/06/how-to-be-a-successful-creative-create-in-the-corners-of-your-life/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/06/how-to-be-a-successful-creative-create-in-the-corners-of-your-life/#respond Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:23:08 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3370 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2015/02/06/how-to-be-a-successful-creative-create-in-the-corners-of-your-life/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/08/20/fear-and-change-maybe-the-most-dangerous-thing-creatively-is-to-be-comfortable/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/08/20/fear-and-change-maybe-the-most-dangerous-thing-creatively-is-to-be-comfortable/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:59:14 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3228 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/08/20/fear-and-change-maybe-the-most-dangerous-thing-creatively-is-to-be-comfortable/feed/ 2 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/#respond Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:33:38 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3195 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/07/04/how-to-create-a-solo-theatre-show-interview-with-colin-watkeys/feed/ 0 0:12:11 Over  the  past  30  years,  Face  to  Face  Theatre  Festival  Director  Colin  Watkeys  has   specialised  in  producing  and  directing  solo  theatre  and  writers  who  perform  their  own   work.  He  is  now  part  of  a  world  movement  tha[...] Over  the  past  30  years,  Face  to  Face  Theatre  Festival  Director  Colin  Watkeys  has   specialised  in  producing  and  directing  solo  theatre  and  writers  who  perform  their  own   work.  He  is  now  part  of  a  world  movement  that  recognises  that  solo  performance   possesses  a  unique  quality  of  vision  in  theatre.  I am performing part of my next solo theatre show The Singing Psychic at the Lost Theatre on July 8th so I took the opportunity to interview Colin Here are some of the highlights (this is not a full transcript of the podcast interview, to listen to it press the arrow above.) I asked Colin for one piece of advice to anyone who wants to write and develop a show and he said ‘Character. Character and narrative. Narrative is the character and the character is the narrative. Don’t try to manipulate anything, don’t try to put words into their mouths. Get to know the character and their narrative and it writes itself. Claire Dowie famously said she does not remember writing any of her work. From her point of view the character does write it. The guy she plays, she taps in that person’s life, she calls it getting away with telling lies’ (her wiki) Like Picasso ‘The lies we tell to tell the truth’, but if you take on someone else’s history you become a different character, it can affect the way you move. One play that Claire did she played 4 characters in, 2 male, and a middle aged woman and an older woman, all played by herself. Someone asked afterwards, as there was a short blackout ‘I was very surprised when you put lipstick on in the blackout’ but she had not actually done so. Colin did wonder how you can act lipstick but the audience had the impression that for a middle aged, middle class woman she always had lipstick on. Thats a challenge ‘act lipstick’ but the point is when you really see all the characters in your story yourself, the audience does too. When you imagine the richness of the scenes, how you felt, where you were the audience recreates that directly themselves in a far more kaleidoscopic world than in a film. He is always fascinated with solo theatre and performers. For a while he ran the Finborough for stand ups as he was interested in their relationships with the audience. He wants theatre to be like jazz so that people get up and it just happens, not with a set, not with a script. He does like scripts as well but he likes everything to be created in the audience’s imagination and no tacky sets or effects. It is what he likes, from working with stand up comedians but then it got boring as he then was coaching them for auditions for TV pilots, most of whom have got TV series now. He enjoyed most working up with Claire Dowie who used to do what she called ‘Stand Up Theatre’ and Ken Campbell, director, writer, actor including A Fish Called Wanda imdb link here) and comic who loved creating it there and then, he called it ‘real acting’ Ken Campbell used to say ‘The script’s there for a bad day when the geezer is not there, but when the geezer is actually there you just let go, you just do it’ Ken Campbell’s obituary That is what Claire, Ken and Colin have in common, he knows it is not for everyone but when he sees a play he just wants to hone down to the one performer who has an interesting relationship with the audience, he thinks they could just do all of it. That’s what he loves. I asked about retelling Shakespeare from a solo performer perspective and I mention Patrick Stewart’s one man ‘A Christmas Carol’ where he told the whole story himself and Colin mentioned the Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’ with the different perspectives of Hamlet and each other. I ask what Colin thinks he brings to our work as a performer. He has no idea what he brings, he just knows that it will not be better with more people, nor with a set, he is interested in the relationship between the performer and the audience. People have said what he is talking about is ju[...] Actors, Directors, Inspiration, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/24/if-only-we-could-know-100-days-of-being-an-actress/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/24/if-only-we-could-know-100-days-of-being-an-actress/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:16:52 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3180 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/24/if-only-we-could-know-100-days-of-being-an-actress/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/13/fear-100-days-of-being-an-actress/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/13/fear-100-days-of-being-an-actress/#respond Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:13:00 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3146 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/13/fear-100-days-of-being-an-actress/feed/ 0 0:20:59 It is called a leap of faith for a reason: it’s not a small step or a sideways shuffle, not a little hop skip and then stop to look where you are going. It is a full bound leap over the side with arms flung to the air, not knowing whether you will e[...] It is called a leap of faith for a reason: it’s not a small step or a sideways shuffle, not a little hop skip and then stop to look where you are going. It is a full bound leap over the side with arms flung to the air, not knowing whether you will end up swimming in a river of crocodiles or resting on Harvey Weinstein’s yacht with a glass of Krug. Every creative project always has a moment when you have to leap off and trust that the end result will be better for having leapt, be it a success or  a ‘failure’ than some once half dreamed project that you never really got moving on or properly finished piece of work that never actually sees the light of day. (You can listen to the podcast version by just pressing the arrow or here are the main points below) There is also the fear of your life choices: I am happy with the choices I have made to be a professional creative. Occasionally though the instability, the insecurity of the next job, the fact as a freelance actress and performer my career and income is always uncertain, the fear may creep in. My father may never get over the fact that if I had not left my bond dealer career at 26 (I used to work in the City – the London equivalent of Wall Street) along with my Manolo’s and large pay packet I would be very wealthy now and probably have a serious London apartment paid for.  However I may have to move out of the wonderful place I live in  two months time and the mere thought of London flat hunting with it’s ever rising rents and the fact I don’t want to get a ‘proper job’ with a guaranteed income means there is more uncertainty than ever. In rational moments I know I have made the right choices, that this is where I need to be for my career and my heart space  but late at night fear creeps in! The fear gets worse also as I contemplate my next projects, especially the film I want to make based on my new solo theatre show that I am workshopping next month at the Lost Theatre in London.  It may be terrible: terribly filmed, acted, conceived, written.. I could go on with all the negatives.   However as outlined in Five Regrets of The Dying, a book from a nurse in palliative care, the number one regret of those at the end of their life is I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.   I am ‘lucky’ that  my life tends to support itself, the projects  I have done and the network of people around me always gives me fresh hope and impetus to go on. This happened again today as I have had two screenings of films I am in over the last 24 hours: Pearl which premiered in Forest Hill which was a lovely short I did last year directed and written by Nick Barrett. Trailer below. (It is to have its big screen premiere in a couple months at Crouch End Arts Cinema) Pearl trailer from CORPOREAL Films on Vimeo. Closer To Home (kickstarter details here)  should have premiered at the BFI directed by Bhavithrah Satkunarasa & produced by James Lyndon today along with the other graduation projects of UAL, however the sound was not ready so the film had to be pulled at the last minute. I had already organized to go to the BFI and was meeting a friend who wanted some creative coaching and inspiration advice beforehand so I went to watch the other films despite not getting to watch the film I was in. It was wonderful to see so many young female directors, producers and writers all graduating. After the  BFI screening I got chatting to Thomas Stoppel who was brilliant  in one of the films ‘Things I Do For You’ However not only is he an actor, he also has produced, written and directed short films and feature films.  I asked him how he got into making films given he really is such a great actor and has a great look as well, enough of a combination that many in such a position would rest on their laurels and wait for work to come to them. His website link here ‘I made my own TV Cookery series when  I was 18[...] Actors, Directors, Filmmakers, Inspiration, Motivation, Musicians, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/06/100-days-of-being-an-actress-singing-live-on-radio-2mrw-community-builder/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/06/100-days-of-being-an-actress-singing-live-on-radio-2mrw-community-builder/#respond Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:22:06 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3125 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/06/06/100-days-of-being-an-actress-singing-live-on-radio-2mrw-community-builder/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/20/100-days-of-being-an-actress-red-carpet-cannes-premiere-of-the-new-david-cronenberg-film/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/20/100-days-of-being-an-actress-red-carpet-cannes-premiere-of-the-new-david-cronenberg-film/#comments Tue, 20 May 2014 10:09:45 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3044 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/20/100-days-of-being-an-actress-red-carpet-cannes-premiere-of-the-new-david-cronenberg-film/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/15/100-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/#comments Thu, 15 May 2014 11:11:25 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3033 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/15/100-days-of-being-an-actress-have-an-elevator-pitch/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/14/3028/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/14/3028/#respond Wed, 14 May 2014 12:11:28 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3028 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/14/3028/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/11/100-days-of-being-an-actress-day-7-being-kind-to-yourself-keep-going/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/11/100-days-of-being-an-actress-day-7-being-kind-to-yourself-keep-going/#respond Sun, 11 May 2014 14:14:20 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=3014 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/05/11/100-days-of-being-an-actress-day-7-being-kind-to-yourself-keep-going/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/06/how-to-be-happy-cherish-moments-of-beauty-where-you-can/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/06/how-to-be-happy-cherish-moments-of-beauty-where-you-can/#respond Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:00:39 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2736 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/03/06/how-to-be-happy-cherish-moments-of-beauty-where-you-can/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/26/the-wonder-of-costume/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/26/the-wonder-of-costume/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2014 14:00:27 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2702 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2014/02/26/the-wonder-of-costume/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/18/the-space-between-where-you-want-to-go-where-you-are-now-bridge-it-through-action/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/18/the-space-between-where-you-want-to-go-where-you-are-now-bridge-it-through-action/#respond Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:19:37 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2380 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/18/the-space-between-where-you-want-to-go-where-you-are-now-bridge-it-through-action/feed/ 0 0:34:53 Marysia with Ryan James Lock Coaching Audio Session 0010 ‘See the space between where you want to go and where you are now.  The distance between there and here is through action. Your action that you chose to take. .’  In this 10th coaching session[...] Marysia with Ryan James Lock Coaching Audio Session 0010 ‘See the space between where you want to go and where you are now.  The distance between there and here is through action. Your action that you chose to take. .’  In this 10th coaching session podcast Ryan continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goals, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. Ryan coached me over coffee in London a few weeks ago and by the end of the second coffee I had decided to do my first online workshop and webinar and write an ebook!  My first webinar was ‘5 ways to blast through creative blocks and get your project done” You can listen to the replay and this week’s free workshop here This podcast covered Moving forward and making big drastic steps, really stepping up. Most people know what they need to step up to the next level but there are often mental blocks to the doing. You know what to do but you are not doing it. ‘The strategies you have used to get you to where you are now, are not the same strategies that you need to take you to the next level.’ I did my normal last minute.com chaos to do my book and webinar recently.  ‘Little and often’ does not really work unless I have had to implement it eg voice and singing practice every day. My ebook and webinar I kept putting off actually doing until the deadline got too near to ignore. Four days from the deadline I had to work out the technology of a webinar or a ebook shop plus assemble the ebook and write the webinar. In my setting a date then I again HAVE to produce so I was up til 3 am most mornings and go to that uber focused place. Ryan says you must congratulate yourself in getting on and stepping up to the next stage of your life. Ryan’s procrastination list exercise Write out a list of everything you are putting off doing that you know you should be. Where are you playing too small? What steps could you take for your business or creativity? Then write against each one a step you can take. In writing my ebook  I then knew I wanted a dip in/dip out book rather than a progression from start to finish. It was only on starting to compile this I realised that was what this book needed. ‘The worse thing you can do is nothing’ I am struggling though with doing my showreel, editing it and getting it out there. As actors or creatives we are always waiting for clips or production stills to then send out. We have to collate pieces of showreel for work and yet I have been refusing to watch myself. How else can people know I can act on screen if they can’t see my work? I need showreel to move forward to do film and TV work. I really focused on getting the webinar and ebook out the door last week and not on the actual marketing of myself. Do you have a portfolio of work that you are happy to show people? I also have not been marketing my Londontown, track you hear at the beginning and end of the podcasts. The universe is reflecting back my hesitation. The universe seems to have stopped just as I have stopped myself from moving forward by refusing to do the work I need to do next; producing and putting my showreel and also getting my Londontown single out there. I am refusing to watch myself on screen, then put in an edit and let the world see it, what happens if the world thinks I am a bad actress? If the work is not out there the world can’t think I am bad or it is terrible. If I don’t do that then noone can see me and judge it. Ryan says ‘If you don’t move forward nothing can.’ Ryan says that I have raised the bar for myself, the space between where you are and where you could be, that space manifests itself as anxiety, worry, hesitation. Ryan encourages me to look at the fact I have done well. Look at where I am now and how I have moved forward. I am more self aware and developed a progressive mentality. I mention my F*** Guilt blog post Have developed my blogging and podcasts and I lo[...] Actors, Auditions, Fun, Gratitude, Marketing, Networking, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/free-workshop-on-surviving-xmas-detroit-creativity/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/free-workshop-on-surviving-xmas-detroit-creativity/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:00:07 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2328 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/free-workshop-on-surviving-xmas-detroit-creativity/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/music-theatre-art-really-can-change-the-world/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/music-theatre-art-really-can-change-the-world/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:13:42 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2304 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/17/music-theatre-art-really-can-change-the-world/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/12/swimming-towards-the-new-year-with-joy/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/12/swimming-towards-the-new-year-with-joy/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:34:17 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2276 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/12/swimming-towards-the-new-year-with-joy/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/11/60-ways-to-get-your-art-in-gear-the-ebook/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/11/60-ways-to-get-your-art-in-gear-the-ebook/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:21:27 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2212 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/11/60-ways-to-get-your-art-in-gear-the-ebook/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/10/david-monteith-a-bad-day-acting-is-better-than-a-good-day-doing-anything-else/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/10/david-monteith-a-bad-day-acting-is-better-than-a-good-day-doing-anything-else/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:00:03 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2149 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/10/david-monteith-a-bad-day-acting-is-better-than-a-good-day-doing-anything-else/feed/ 0 0:32:38 Podcast 30:David Monteith, award winning podcaster, actor, director and tutor. I did a class with David years ago on podcasting and also used to be in a singing class with his now wife Siobhan. David is an award winning podcaster ‘Geek Syndicate’ wh[...] Podcast 30:David Monteith, award winning podcaster, actor, director and tutor. I did a class with David years ago on podcasting and also used to be in a singing class with his now wife Siobhan. David is an award winning podcaster ‘Geek Syndicate’ who also acts, directs and teaches. He has just been an understudy in the West End play ‘Fences’ and directed Monteverdi Orfeo for Isleworth Baroque to great acclaim (‘best production they’ve done in 10 years’ was his favourite review).. He was on the committee for the British Comic Awards (as in comic books) and hosted the award ceremony. He also interviewed the ex Dr’s Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Peter Davison and current writer/producer Steven Moffat at the Dr Who 50th celebration last weekend. ‘Best way to network is to be really good and be really easy to work with’. ‘If you make space and open it up to the universe, then take that step of faith, If you don’t make the space, what is going to come along to fill it as it is already filled with whatever nonsense is there to buy food.’ Before we get into our conversation I am doing a free workshop on ‘Five Ways To Blast Through Creative Blocks And Get Your Project Done’ this Thursday, details here. David started podcasting 8 years  ago, him and his friend recorded the first one whilst drunk on very expensive whiskey, within 3 to 4 years they has 2000 downloads a week. It has taken him places he would have never have been otherwise. There is a podcast network of ten to eleven under the umbrella of Geek Syndicate, back in the early days first people would ask about the name and then they would ask ‘what is a podcast?’, that was where they were when it started, noone then knew. They got nominated many times for the podcast awards but kept being competed against a Harry Potter podcast. They did win eventually in a different category David has been understudying in Fences, a West End play which Lenny Henry stars. He teaches twitter, podcast and acting classes of various levels.. He was in Jamaica for a year in 1999 and was thinking he wanted to be an actor. He returned to London and was drinking with a friend in Soho, saying ‘I want to act but I think I’ve left it too late’ This drunk guy who was standing next to them went ‘F*** Off, I am 40 years old and I am doing a part time acting evening course at the City Lit’, so David went off to that and now he teaches that very course 13 years later. 5 years later after the evening class he left to act, ‘the scariest thing I had ever done, I had a job and no idea what would happen after’ ‘Stuff is waiting to happen but you can’t see it if you are too busy getting in with normal life,’ I said as as an actor you can create drama in life as opposed to be on stage, be unnecessarily dramatic in relationships, when you clear the rubbish out, then drama gets back to where it belongs on the stage. David thinks he is there again, he is teaching so much that he needs to make space for his acting again. ‘Feed yourself as well as others.’ Siobhan, his wife is a fantastic classical singer so she and a friend asked David to oversee/direct a project. He was very ignorant on the world of opera and he thought they were all fuddy duddies but realised he was wrong having met Siobhan. They asked him to direct them and he wasn’t sure he liked opera anyway. However they asked ‘can you bring a sense of theatre to it?’, and off they went. He now teaches bringing a sense of acting to the performance, He often finds people are singing words they do not understand without any idea of what they mean. If you ask a writer for advice ‘just write something, the act of writing invokes something else, and gives ideas. Sometimes you just have to do stuff’ I talk about my jazz album from years ago and now one of the songs Londontown has a dance remix, and we are planning to release a dance single. Weird how creativity can evolve. Talking about Fences by a black Amer[...] Actors, Directors, Fun, Gratitude, Marketing, Networking, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/09/if-i-have-a-god-it-is-bacchus-he-branded-me/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/09/if-i-have-a-god-it-is-bacchus-he-branded-me/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:17:26 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2189 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/09/if-i-have-a-god-it-is-bacchus-he-branded-me/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/03/without-passion-without-skill-combining-the-two-is-the-essence-of-the-creative-life/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/03/without-passion-without-skill-combining-the-two-is-the-essence-of-the-creative-life/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:31:01 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=900 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/12/03/without-passion-without-skill-combining-the-two-is-the-essence-of-the-creative-life/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/19/the-words-we-use-completely-depicts-our-mindset-and-influences-how-we-feel-cs009/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/19/the-words-we-use-completely-depicts-our-mindset-and-influences-how-we-feel-cs009/#respond Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:15:01 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=2027 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/11/19/the-words-we-use-completely-depicts-our-mindset-and-influences-how-we-feel-cs009/feed/ 0 0:38:09 In this 9th coaching session podcast Ryan continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goals, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. Here are some of the highlights of his ad[...] In this 9th coaching session podcast Ryan continues to coach me on how to market myself and my work, achieving my big goals, looking at my mindset and tackle my limiting beliefs and overcome procrastination. Here are some of the highlights of his advice for moving forward this week (this is not a full transcript) I am talking about after each process or show I crawl into a hole, collapse on the sofa and read, despite knowing that I do all or nothing in my life, I feel I put too much pressure on myself regarding expectations. After I have given a lot of energy to a project there is a lot of sugar, biscuits, cakes and chocolates, not talking to people, hiding and sitting on the couch eating.  I am doing NaNoWriMo this year (write a 50, 000 word novel in the month of November) but have also fell behind the word count during these few days of hiding. Ryan says this is common and it is important to understand that when you exert yourself in one area it is important and natural.  I have this voice in my head saying ‘Come on, get on, moving and change the world’. Ryan feels this could be a reaction, so I need to rebel against the fact that I have done so much and feels I need to give my permission to recover, however the way I am choosing to recover is not working for me. I know that eating loads of Haribo is not good, I need to find better downtime coping ways that are healthy and really work for me. I feel a bit heartbroken. I know I can get into massively catastrophic thought drama and can hurt myself in terms of self care and moving forward in my life. Ryan thinks in putting my all into things try and remember  the following advice from ‘Creative mind and success’ by Ernest Holmes, ‘A seed does not become a tree overnight no matter how much water you pour on it.” If I looked at the bigger picture I can see the little things should take me there eventually. He uses the analogy of a Sat Nav, the route and destination mapped out, and using our inner wisdom to get us there. He sees in me a real sense of impatience. (This is true ‘I want it all, I want it now’!) Ikeda ‘Please steadily advance on the path of faith that manifests in daily life, living in the way that works best for you’ So trust myself that I will come back stronger, better I have started re-doing Morning Pages, free hand 3 pages of A4, stream of consciousness. I really got that maybe my drive, which is a very typical creative drive, that you want to keep moving forward. What happens is that my head gets in the way. I believe that we are given these dreams of creative work from singing to painting, I believe they come from a soul place and given the talents to go with these dreams, Yes we have to train and hone but we are given these building blocks. I always have felt I have a different mission to do in this world. Ryan says lots of creatives have this darkness and agrees our gifts are divinely given. Such a sense of calling is vital. Calling is an amazing word which is far less drama than me calling it a ‘mission’, a very high impact energy word and we all do better work when we are recharged.  Ignoring the rest days in the gym just make your injury, you grow more when you rest. The sense of depression and come down, this is partly a sense of loss, part a space thats open and also a time to regroup and recharge. I feel I have been regrouping now for weeks and am still scrabbling around. Pressure and High energy get me to work. Ryan  asked me a coaching question, say the first thing that comes to my mind ‘What would it be like if you made it OK to have the downtime on the sofa’ I said ‘I’d be bored stiff’ Two days of coming off the sofa I feel so much better with a clean kitchen. The ways I chose to downtime don’t make me happy or relaxed. Ryan says my downtime process should leave me replenished, I need to find a better way to recharge. Sugar and sweets don’t help. What would it be like if I gave myself permission to have downtime? I get nervous that I can lose m[...] Podcast, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/14/why-you-must-define-who-you-are-then-find-people-to-challenge-you-respectfully-dan-horrigan-playwright-director/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/14/why-you-must-define-who-you-are-then-find-people-to-challenge-you-respectfully-dan-horrigan-playwright-director/#respond Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:00:54 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1858 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/10/14/why-you-must-define-who-you-are-then-find-people-to-challenge-you-respectfully-dan-horrigan-playwright-director/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/25/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/#respond Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:16:06 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1634 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/08/25/the-seagull-podcast-the-cast-discusses-snoring-comedy-in-chekhov-finding-a-stuffed-seagull/feed/ 0 0:23:58 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 Green Girl Productions @GreenGirlProd www.facebook.com/GreenGirlProductions Green Girl Productions are : James Mackenzie Thorpe, Nicky Fox and Jen Cooper   My Vine on the Sunday morning of the making of the viral. 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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