Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Noelle Cope. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Noelle , appreciate you joining us today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

It started with a feeling… I think that the best lives are ones where we are taking little risks everyday. Something I think we are just now talking openly about is how risky it feels to feel. To embrace that side of our daily lives.
Which is why I fundamentally believe that every creative project is a risk.
All creativity is about vulnerability. We are always exposing our truest selves when we sit down to create. The second and even larger risk in my opinion is being willing to share that work with the world and taking the risk of being misunderstood.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve longed to find perfect communication. I desire to take what lives in me, and share it with others as fully as possible. I think it’s from that core desire to both share and be seen, that I started at the young age to explore creative expression – even though it would take me much of my adult life to feel comfortable sharing what I’ve made.
Through, baby steps and random leaps, I’ve learned to feel confident sharing what I paint, act in, the scripts that I write and most vulnerable of all my personal poetry.
That’s not to say that any of these are a hobby or mer form of self expression. Each one is its own pathway for me to crack myself open, and release anything that has been burning holes inside of me.

I truly think that betting on myself, believing in myself, the value of what I feel and what those feelings create, has been the most rewarding part of my life. Because life is gonna be messy and knock everyone on their ass but that doesn’t mean I have to just let those things fester and build up in me. I can do something about it. And there is always the hope that something I make will inspire another or help someone else feel something beyond the mundane and in that feel the encouragement to take a risk even if that risk starts off by giving themselves permission to feel something new.

I can also share that in my personal experience every single time without fail sharing my work has been the biggest reward. It teaches me things about life and people I would have no other way of learning.

Noelle , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Most people know me from one of my three main creative/career fields – Acting, Screenwriting, and Poetry.

As an actress I’ve been fortunate enough to lend my voice to a handful of popular shows on streaming services and star in some shorts that have been on the festival beat as well as live performances.

Many folks familiar with my work as a screenwriter due to my upcoming holiday film Snow Angels ( cowritten with Taylor Blackwell) and various other scripts of mine that are floating around, ah Hollywood.

In 2022, I decided to utilize social media to publicly share my poetry ( which has been a passion of mine since high school). In 2023 I created a substack news letter ( 26 letters by Noelle ) to share my original work and have been fortunate enough to read my pieces at events in and around Los Angeles.
Which all is leading up to my forthcoming first solo poetry collection “Notes From The In-between” which will be released in February of 2024.

Additionally some folks have started to find me on social media through my work as a painter. I have synesthesia which for me means that I hear sound. I started painting what I see when I hear music and now take on commissions of painting people’s voices.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Community. The creative community is so beautiful. Though I feel like it’s often sorted into two groups.
The internet community which spreads all over the world and local IRL community.

the beauty of both communities is I no longer create in a self centered vortex because the people around me take time to read it, watch it, listen, or look at it.
They open up their minds and hearts to feel something. Sharing with me in a feeling or experience. That is incredible. It’s what allows us to find healing, joy, love, and start to create on a person to person level the change in the world that is so deeply needed.
It generates compassion. Life without compassion would lack in all beauty and purpose because we would lack any of the skills needed to appreciate all the ways in which we are different yet similar.

So while I am a full time creative, I don’t believe that folks need to be a full time artist or creative to be a part of the creativity community. Being a creative is about so much more than earning a living. It’s very much a mindset and a lifestyle that is open to all who are willing to open themselves to it.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

I think that from an outside perspective it can be easy to wish that creativities would pick a lane or single career. Focus on a brand, a style, an aesthetic, a posting schedule or a single medium. It makes sense why. Its’ tidier, easier to curate a feed or inbox but it is also very limiting for everyone.

I would encourage folks who are not creatives to approach folks who have multiple creative careers such as myself with curiosity.

There is such joy for folks like me in discovering which way to best bring an idea to life having folks greet it with the same level of wonder – asking “why paint this instead of filming it?” or ” why write it instead of painting it?” allows for everyone to gain even more from the experience.
You don’t have to like all mediums someone is creating in but supporting an artist/ creative’s exploration could lead them to creating something that changes your life – even if only for a moment.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://noellecope.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noellacope/
• Other: Etsy Shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/26Lettersbynoelle?ref=profile_header

Image Credits
Wicked Fruit Poetry Reading photo by C.C. Cope ” Just A Girl” editorial photos by Bianca Castañon Red Carpet photos by Jessica Nixon Art Studio photos by C.C. Cope