We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Brooke Butterworth . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Brooke below.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I went to college for Acting and film – even after having an agent. I would leave class to go do film jobs. I was a double major with some acting and filmmaking. It’s hard to find work that’s flexible to sustain myself for acting but once you find that it’s pretty great to be able to leave whatever you’re doing and go pick up Acting Work! I took acting classes for the past 10 years consistently until the pandemic. During the pandemic I took a little bit of a break because I had been taking acting classes for so long! My favorite classes were in London UK at the Shakespeare globe theater in 2017!
I love throwing myself into all sorts of training and even took MMA, kickboxing, and Brazilian jujitsu classes in case I needed to play any characters who had that background. I’m actually working on a production in the future where my character is a boxer! I just love playing characters with different skills. The best part about being an actor is learning to do new things or learning a new psychology and throwing myself into that mindset or lifestyle. I don’t consider myself a method actor but I definitely love having to learn how other people live.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Right after college and after coming back to the states from studying in London I didn’t have any money for an apartment or anything like that but I knew I couldn’t stay in a small town. I understood that I had to move to a city where either my agent was or a town where they were filming things more frequently. I decided to still take acting classes and moved to the town where my agent was but I had to figure out a place to stay because I couldn’t afford to pay rent at all! I ended up working in a hostel for accommodation finding a job at Starbucks and also working at a comic book store while taking acting classes at night and picking up any acting jobs I could get. I think it was worth it but it definitely wasn’t easy living in that hostel!

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

Communities can support actors and artists by supporting organizations that aim at building up the artist community! I created a nonprofit called Acting United Inc that does just that! We work to make productions that support local artists in Atlanta Georgia and help the world by focusing on stories that artist want to tell about social justice issues. Our latest film was about human trafficking awareness based on true stories of women who were freed from trafficking. If we get enough supporters for Acting United then we can start to do what the nonprofit was truly created for which is not only creating productions that directly help the artist by giving them jobs and creating stories that artists need help to create, but, we can also give grants to artists who want to create productions on their own but need the funding to do so! You can give@ actingunited.com and support growing actors and filmmakers !

Contact Info:

• Website: Actingunited.com
• Instagram: Brookebutterworthofficial
• Youtube: Imbrookeyb
• Other: Fitness training: @mainstayfitness Acting United: @actingunited.com

Image Credits
Amanda Mazonkey