We recently connected with Ron Weisberg and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Ron, thanks for joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

Our short film, Bozo, has made a fun festival run, winning several awards. It stars Rod Grier, so his iconic sister Pam watched it and recommended how we make the feature film even better of a concept. How cool is that! Then there is another project I know will win awards because there is simply nothing like it, Maktoub, a story about a magical girl that after discovering she was adopted, journeys to mystical Morocco following visions of her biological father’s line. There are so many more, I help actors become filmmakers by making movies with them.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I got into acting because my granny was a spark of wild talent I saw on stages growing up. Once I realized I could go to school for acting there was no turning back. I went to UT at Austin and found my improv comedy vibe and tribe in the process. I kept training and doing plays and short films till I had too many projects to fit on my resume. In 2010 I moved to Santa Fe, NM to help take care of granny after grampa passed away, and the film industry was just growing. I found that no one was training actors, they were just taking their money!

Turns out this happens 99% of the time, so I started training actors and really honed my skill directing and breaking down scenes with actors for 6 years. I moved to LA in 2016 and studied at Groundlings, UCB, and other acting studios, as well as learned a powerful eccentric stretching modality that kept me going mentally and physically. After doing a couple projects out there I got the opportunity to take over an acting studio back in Albuquerque, NM and have been going back and forth ever since.

Running Story Quest Studios has been life changing, I get to provide actors ground breaking and original acting training as well as put them into action by shooting award winning short films in the advanced acting classes. I am an actor so I know what actors need. I created my own technique for actors out of the need to train people faster and with less confusion and emotional pain. I have the intro book to my technique coming out at the end of 2023, “The Discovery Technique for Actors: The Art of Living with No Limits.”

I brought on my dear friend Elizabeth Reeder Neubauer to teach the Voiceover programs as she has been killing it for over 40 years in that field, and anyone around the country can work with her on zoom, live, as well as join me in the studio in hybrid class, learning professional acting craft as well as gaining knowledge and tools for the business of entertainment, something I never got in school.

Now I am teaching, creating short films with actors, as well as building community producing other projects outside of the school, especially now that my agent reps me as a Director/Writer/Actor/Producer. My focus is on creating stories that mean something towards peace in this twisted world. Sometimes we need a laugh, sometimes we need a cry, but we always need great storytelling.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

My mission is to help foster a creative journey in every storyteller that leads them on a path of transformation, one discovery step at a time. I want every actor to know that they are the authors of their own character’s life, and they are the only ones that can discover this life, one moment at a time, in all its glory, in all its horror. I was put on this planet to bridge cultures through stories of unexpected connection and have been tasked by myself to master the art of communication. In the West, our focus has been on results and we forgot about the sacred path more powerful than wherever it leads. I’m here to show people how limitless they are as storytellers, and how we don’t need the fat cats at the top to make movies.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

There is no template for being creative, however I have discovered a few principles that allow natural space for creativity to flourish. The issue most people face in an out of the creative industries is the crippling fear of being wrong. As a creative, we learn to understand life as a work in progress, an evolution of a story that is constantly being re-written anyway, so there is no reason to get hung up on the current version. The the corporate world, people are often punished for taking risks or thinking out of the prescribed box. But in the entertainment and creative field, we make stories into experiments that must be tested and edited. I truly think we must learn to be wrong in order to change. We are berated and told we’re worthless when we fail, but in the East, they learn to absorb failure and adapt to mistakes. To me, as long as our actions align with our discoveries, we can never fail. So, take responsibility in every aspect of your personal and work life, people love collaborating with those that can easily admit they are wrong and change when they discover something new. Let’s face it, we all need to work on our neuro-plasticity.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.StoryQuestStudios.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storyqueststudios/