Tending Creativity

002 | Being an Actor in New York, Attending and Leaving the University of Minnesota Guthrie Theater, and Authentically Expressing Yourself ft. Brielle Webb

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Welcome to the Tending Creativity Podcast!

This podcast focuses on creativity for and of women and non-binary folks.

In this episode I interview Brielle Webb about her experiences as an actor and content creator living in Brooklyn, NY. I hope you enjoy the episode!

In this episode we talk about:

  • Brielle’s interest in acting and creativity from childhood on
  • Shifting her mindset on motivations for acting in high school and taking acting seriously
  • Attending a performing arts high school in New York
  • Family support of creative pursuits and acting
  • Her creative process and process as an actor
  • Personal impact of acting
  • Gaining confidence through performance
  • Different types of acting and performance
  • Brielle’s journey and experience with school
  • Graduating high school
  • Taking a gap year after high school
  • Attending community college
  • Getting accepted at and attending University of Minnesota and the Guthrie Theater
  • Societal messaging around school, success, failure, and overcoming those
  • School loans and debt in your early 20s
  • Leaving the University of Minnesota due to being unable to afford it
  • The oppression of higher education
  • Universal free higher education
  • The impact of growing up and living in Brooklyn/New York on creativity
  • Her experience living in New York during quarantine & COVID-19
  • When  and how Brielle began content creation
  • Her first brand collaboration with Mejuri
  • Thoughts on skincare
  • Self-care as protest
  • Exploitation of “self-care”
  • Deciding what brands to work with
  • Interconnectedness of beauty, fashion and racism and social justice
  • Sharing a spectrum of interests on social media
  • Finding creative motivation and inspiration and going through creative seasons
  • Other creative mediums
  • Photography, street photography and photography in New York
  • Writing
  • The importance of everyone’s story and work

    • Brielle's Instagram: whoisbriellewebb

    Mud Flower Film Instagram: mudflowerfilm

    Mud Flower Film gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/mud-flower-film

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