We were lucky to catch up with Producer Drema Dream recently and have shared our conversation below.

Producer Drema Dream, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

The way that I learned my craft is by trial and error. I had a desire to learn and the faith to believe and I jumped in head first. The paces that I’ve had to take were strictly limited due to me finding everything out of pocket. But I’m doing so, I had a lot of time to learn a lot of things I didn’t know. The skills that are most essential to me is being teachable, being aware.and being focused.
The only obstacle that stood in the way of me learning more was the time it took for me to save up to reinvest to prepare for my next move.

Producer Drema Dream, 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?

My name is Aldrema Conerly Williams also known as “Producer Drema Dream”. I am a hairstylist by trade and am transitioning to become a full time playwright, director and producer. I’m originally from a small town in Louisiana called Bogalusa and I moved to Dallas, Tx in 1989. In my early years of being a hairstylist, I competed in hair battles and we had ti write little 8 minute skits and it started from there. I fell in love with entertaining the crowd with my short stories and decided to go to Collin County Community College in Plano to attempt to sharpen my skills. I took a film writing class and learned a lot more than what I ever expected…I learned how to write books, commercials, movies, plays, etc. and the rest is history. I ran with all of my newly learned skills and began to write, direct and produce my original work. What I feel that sets me apart from others that I’ve met in my field is my originality, consistency, work ethics and preference and patience to work with amateurs. I’m a comical person and I like to make people laugh so when I write my plays, I write them with mentoring in my mind. I highlight the problems and offer solutions in each project. I value the lives of people . I can’t reach them all personally or individually, I can definitely reach them through entertainment.
I don’t believe in big “I’s” and little “U’s”. I’m big on respecting each other and support. I let my team know that we are in this together and I need them as much as they need me and together we can conquer anything. My company is called IMOC Productions short for I’m My Own Competition. In business, don’t aim to get in no one else’s lane because I learned a long time ago that if you stay in your own lane, there is no traffic. The sky is the limit.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

In my view, a great way to support artists and creatives is by putting their butts in the seats. I cont speak for others, but in my lane of theater, I found out that that portion of the society that I would call my guests are celebrity driven. I don’t have headliners in my shows but I have some very hard working, local talent that’s like no other but because they are not on tv or Internet famous, people won’t come out. But do know that nobody works hard to be anobody. It’s an art.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

I’m on a mission to teach the world new ways to see and things for the betterment of themselves. I write with passion and a strive to create masterpieces that will last beyond me. My overall goal is to be the biggest African American playwright in the world and build my cast to be superstars.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @Dremadreamproductions
• Facebook: Drema Dream Productions

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