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

Lauren, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. If you could go back in time do you wish you had started your creative career sooner or later?

My parents were adamant that I would not earn money related to acting until I was an adult. They wisely steered me clear of any proclivity to becoming a little diva. However, in their wisdom, they also took my passion for acting seriously and had me in classes and performing for the public from age 8. Although it is taking longer to gain traction professionally as a result, I am grateful that my passion and respect for the craft of acting was and is my foundation instead of it being experienced and perceived as a revenue stream before the craft itself.

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 am an Actor and Filmmaker. I’ve been working on and in my craft, since I was very young. Although my focus for many years was on Theatre and I am Classically trained as a George Brown Theatre School graduate, my passion for film and television is my focus at present. Though many Actors are motivated by fame and fortune, my motivation has always been the supreme joy I derive from creating as well as how wise a teacher, one’s Spirit can be through Art, and its inception. This is a personal point of view and experience which I don’t intend to sound didactic. I am just sharing why it continues to be a driving force in my life.

Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?

I really like A Course in Miracles. Someone who studies Muay Thai asked me recently what it’s about and I replied: it’s like training the Mind how to do Muay Thai in response to the Ego’s full arsenal of illusory weaponry. They replied “Damn. That’s Cool.” We both laughed. But to clarify why I really like it…Those who study A Course in Miracles often land on the metaphor that it’s also teaching the Mind how to watch one’s self as though they’re an Actor on a stage 24/7 and their true Self is sitting in the audience 24/7. That makes a lot of sense to me experientially since it’s that bifurcation in one’s identity of truth vs fiction which I consciously create, experience, and witness simultaneously, as an Actor. I can be fully immersed in my character’s emotions and raging away in accordance with the script but the real me is so happy and relaxed inside watching it all happen. Translating that to daily, non-scripted life is the bigger challenge for me. Understanding this as an Actor and just a regular person going about my day has a symbiotic effect on my inner life. It’s a breeding ground for greater awareness and awareness breeds real joy. It’s not a book for everyone’s taste. It utterly decimates the ego thought system. But those I know who like it, really do.

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

I mean, I feel preposterous talking about resilience as a white woman in a first-world country who has never been incarcerated. I’d rather use this paragraph to encourage people to read about the work that https://criticalresistance.org is doing to abolish the prison industrial complex. That work and its beneficiaries are the emblems of resilience for me. I’m just a white lady who knows how to create some art and is setting her white fragility on fire as best as she can, day by day.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1543207/
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headshots by Sela Shiloni.