Your Creative Journey
Paul Carganilla and Kevin Gregg talk about the challenges and steps you can take to help you create your art. Whether you want to act, write, dance, draw, make music or make a movie, Paul and Kevin will talk about their experiences as working creatives to help you get one step closer to making your creative dream a reality.
Your Creative Journey
Heather Provost
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Paul Carganilla and Kevin Gregg
This week Kevin and Paul talk with producer, writer, and director Heather Provost
Heather is a Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League Award-nominated producer.
Critically acclaimed hits on Broadway include Reasons To Be Pretty by Neil LaBute (three Tony nominations including Best Play) and the musical [title of show] (Tony Nomination for Best Book of a Musical).
Heather also produced and co-directed the feature film Racing Colt.
She and writing partner Scott Damian most recently wrote A Joyous Christmas and Season for Love for Hallmark Channel.
She is the current Producing Artistic Director at The Colony Theatre in Burbank.
Highlights from this episode:
- Heather talks about her career starting as an actor and how her Mom helped to instill a spirit of courage and fearlessness
- Faking her way into a New York waitress job
- Making the move to L.A. and discovering her passion and talent for producing
- Taking the leap back to New York as a Broadway producer and landing a Tony nomination for her work
- Navigating a very difficult and challenging year in New York
- Tips as a writer. Serving the story. Focusing on what is going to make a script the best that it can be, and make it sellable.
- Organization is key for the writer (and artist)
- “The key to having it all is knowing that you already do.”
Additional show highlights:
- We’re now live streaming episodes on YouTube on Tuesday nights at 8pm.
- Vaudacity Network has crossed the 1K subscribers
- We read viewers comments from YouTube live stream, which includes unpacking some funny family dynamics in Kevin’s home
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