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

Hi Isaiah, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about the things you feel your parents did right and how those things have impacted your career and life.

My mother being a single black parent raising me in the South, taught me a lot about what it means to survive in this world as a black person. She taught me that not everything needs to be defined by my race, but that my race is incredibly important & is a gift to be treasured. In her passing I have learned that I am the prize of my ancestors and me surviving and living a life filled with grace, equity, determination, and fearlessness in the face of such insurmountable adversity is exactly how they would want me to live. My mother hugged me, kissed me, showed me the love that I so desperately desired and needed as a kid & in hard and troubling times, in my youth she always managed to find a way back to me, and even after her death, i continue to manage to find a way back to her.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’m a young multi-hyphenated creative artist. some of the core pillars of my artistry are poetry, content creating, filmmaking, and writing (both for the screen and for the stage)

I was raised in the South by a single black woman, my artistry strives to delve into the demons that many of us do not want to wrestle with in our everyday lives. my artistry strives to reach into the depths of people’s souls, pull their soul out of them and make them reflect at the reflection.

my artistry is raunchy, raggedy, & ghetto in the most profound and exalted way. it encourages rage and relentlessness whilst also doing it with such grace and elegance.

I am an artist not because I became one, but because my ancestors granted me with the blessing of being one.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

It is a primitive release. it is something difficult to explain, but to take all of the rage, fury, dejection, turmoil and joy that we experience in our life, and to be able to dance, sing, write, act or create something that others can relate to…that is the most profound gift of all of it.

having people see your work and in the midst of all of the double entendres, all of the dramatic action and poetry, the storytelling and theatrical arc, in the midst of ALL of that, at the bottom of it all finding the amethyst or the emerald–the gemstone in the work and being able to acknowledge that same crystal or gemstone in their life, that place where they are not happy, the place in their life where they are not fulfilled, and being able to see that in your work and be inspired to live a life that is more aligned with their desires, now that, is the greatest gift of all

Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

I give these resources to you that I now know about:

– NYC Playwrights (Website Full of Places to Submit Your Written Plays.
– Anatomy Of A Scene (YouTube Channel Dedicated To Directors Analyzing Their Films)
– New Play Exchange (Website To Publish Unproduced Plays)
– Wondershare Filmora (a very cheap and easy to use editing software for beginners)
– Backstage (Website To Submit Auditions & Apply For Films, TV, Modeling, Etc.)
and one that may seem not aligned with the prompt but nonetheless:
– the ability to set aside one’s ego to ask for help and to ask for new avenues or resources. AKA: Ask People For Help.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_isaiahboozer_/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaavV8SCYO5HMBsP7HVzqg
• Other: TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@isaiah.boozer New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/49028/isaiah-zavion-boozer