We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Gabby Moore. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Gabby below.
Hi Gabby , thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.
All of being creative involves risk but the risk doesn’t necessarily need to be dangerous or irresponsible. Just the action of sharing your work or creating work in general involves risk. Taking a chance on yourself and your work involves risk. There are a lot of uncertainties of whether or not you’ll succeed but not trying will always lead to a guaranteed failure.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
I am a comedian, actress and writer. I became involved in the arts while in college to become a doctor and I took a theater class and fell in love with the craft. I am most proud of finding people that share the same passions and being blessed enough to work on projects with many different artists and learning different areas of film, television and comedy. It’s a blessing to be working in the industry at all and to be able to work regular is even more amazing so that’s what I’m most proud of is being able to work but also being able to work on projects that bring joy and touch the lives of those who see it.
In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?
I think what is most important is to lead with possibilities and support rather than always pointing out the negative possibilities. I also believe that not categorizing the arts or entrepreneurship as something “less than” until you succeed. Especially with acting and comedy, if you are working at all it’s a success but often times people are categorized as “aspiring” simply because they haven’t been on a big movie yet. It’s one of the hardest things to go into business for yourself and/or follow your dreams as a creative so the biggest things I feel society can do is lead with support. People already have fears and doubts, they don’t need everyone else’s as well.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
I had to unlearn the idea that there is a perfect time to do something and that everyone whose successful knows exactly what they’re doing.
I would always wait to write stories or do auditions or create things until the time was “perfect” and until everything was in alignment and that time just doesn’t exist and you may be waiting awhile. I created my own work and just kept creating and as you do, opportunities become available as you find them. I learned this when I went to a Sundance workshop and there were those there who’d seen tremendous success in their work and I asked many questions about how they knew when the time was right and how’d they “know” what to do. The common thread with each of them was that they just did the work and prepared and kept doing it and had no idea if things would workout or how. Realizing that the path wasn’t perfect for anyone helped me realize that often times we have to create regardless of if we see the path clearly in front of us. It also helped me realize that none of us really know what we’re doing and we are all learning as we go and hoping for the best. 
Contact Info:
- Website: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm13907112/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/iamgabbymoore?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/gmoorecomedian
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