We were lucky to catch up with Eve Austin recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Eve thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

It would be difficult to choose only one project that was meaningful to me. I love to tell stories that deal with triumph over adversity. These are a few projects that come to mind.

Lola Does Manhattan is a series I created to help people navigate a balance of self-love and growth by learning to listen to their inner selves.
For years Lola sacrificed her own wants and needs for those of her family and the status quo.
Recent events bring Lola to Manhattan. Heidi, her inner self (in physical human form) helps guide Lola to a life of freedom and joy through adventures that will provide a choice in how Lola learns to listen and love herself.

In Fidelity, the new feature that I Executive produced and have a large role in, opposite some Oscar/Emmy nominated actors. It deals with the unexpected things that life hands you. Our mortality and how we deal with life and sex when death comes calling. The back story for me on this one is the loss of my husband from Covid in 2020 and how to navigate my life
since then.

Another recent project I just shot is Mother Knows Best- I play a prejudiced woman that learns how to deal with the world more kindly and gently. It really speaks to the world we live in and how to make it better.

If I can help someone see themselves and the world in a more positive light, I have done my job.

Eve, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

The main thing to know about me is that my main trajectory is always to stretch and grow as an artist and human being. I am a lifelong Metaphysics student and very curious/interested
in the world around me.

I am a trilingual (Spanish/German/English), award-winning bi-coastal Actor and Producer.
Available as a local hire in LA, Atlanta and New York.

For years, I worked primarily in Theater. My main focus now is Film and Television. IMDb.me/eveaustin

I was born in Europe to older Holocaust survivor parents. They did not take kindly to my wish to be an actress.
I had to learn how to make a living for myself, and acting did not provide that. I had some interest in the visual arts
(Drawing and Painting) ended up fulfilling their wishes by becoming an Art Teacher. Left that pretty quickly and
worked my way up in the advertising business, eventually becoming Advertising Director for Diane Von Furstenberg.

My greatest wish was to be a mother, so, I met my late husband at a very young age, married, and we had 2 children,

I never gave up my dream of becoming an actress. Finally started to take classes and completely fell back in love with everything the business had to offer. Like my parents, my husband did not want me to act. Put up a lot of barricades
to keep me at home with him.
There was so much joy in acting for me that I stayed in it and progressed very slowly, trained with some of the greatest teachers in NY/LA, and kept going at a limited pace.

I discovered producing by creating my own films and taking risks with it. Thus far, I have produced more than 10 projects
divided between features and shorts. Have won more than 30 film festivals as Best Actress and as many for best film(in the last three years )through some of these projects as well as those I was hired to do.

The main message I want people to understand about me is that I believe we can triumph over any
adversity, and my mission as an actor/producer is to influence people around me to believe the same.
Life is good, and the only control we have is how we look and think of it.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

Creativity comes from our souls. The idea that we can create amazing worlds with our imaginations and bring people along by inspiring them through our vision is a gift and one that I treasure. It is rewarding in itself to have the desire to create and express our souls so that others can see themselves through us.

One of the great rewards of being an actor and a producer is the people you meet through creation.
When we get together and create something as a community of artists, we become a family focused on a common goal.
The film and theater communities are some of the warmest, kindest, most loving, and uplifting communities that exist.
The friendships and families we form as a result of each project last forever.

A CAREER IN THE ARTS IS A JOURNEY, NOT A DESTINATION, to me. Of course, I want to get work, and of course, it is not an easy feat in a highly competitive market by sheer numbers alone. So what we have left is the only thing within our control is to keep creating and nurturing our talent, learning to love ourselves just as we are and share it with the world.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

Non Creatives as you call them, are creatives in some form or another. Everyone has a passion or talent for what they love most.

In our very young American mentality, we are, after all a country less than 300 years old, Culture and the arts get little respect. Part of that is a function of the government and how children are brought up here.

Other cultures that are thousands of years old revere the arts. They make certain that young children are equally exposed to dance, theater, visual arts, etc. In America, many of these programs are cut or don’t exist at all.

This lack of respect for the arts in our society creates how people view our creative journeys and why they struggle to understand us. How are they supposed to view it if they aren’t educated to it.
Because the arts are iffy in terms of income, artists are looked at as frivolous dilettantes. Get a REAL job our families and
friends say. One where you can earn a living, acting, dancing, painting, writing, etc, is just a hobby. They rarely make money.

Of course, this differs greatly when the creative becomes recognized for something and gets more jobs and money for it.
In one of my Unions SAG-AFTRA, only 3% make more than 100K a year yet may work harder than those people in “real” jobs yet are maligned and scoffed at because they choose an artists path and consequently are not earners contributing to society.     

Contact Info:

• Website: eveaustin.net
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