We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Vincent Richmond. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Vincent below.
Vincent, appreciate you joining us today. How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have done to speed up your learning process? What skills do you think were most essential? What obstacles stood in the way of learning more?
My time learning about the craft of acting started when I went to college at CSU Dominguez Hills. Even though I was already committed to being a Theatre Arts major I took Acting 101 my first semester to make sure that I was getting a good handle on the basics and improve from there. From the learning experience I’ve had throughout school I do wish that I had gone into my major classes and auditioned earlier than I had to be able to have so much more time to hone and build on my toolkit sooner. The most essential skills I feel helped me are breath work, character building and just overall performing onstage. The obstacles that I feel came in my way were navigating school, life, work and the craft but in a way it did also help build me up as well.
Vincent, 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?
I am an actor and model from San Diego, California. I have been acting since 2014 since I’ve been to college at CSU Dominguez Hills getting my degree in Theatre Arts. In 2017 when I graduated I started getting more into commercial, film, and voice-over work while getting into modeling as well more recently. There’s so much work that I have done that I’m proud of but I feel my favorite work has been acting in a commercial for Dr. Squatch soap company due to the fun nature of the product and the crew I had worked with and the reach the commercial had seen in a quick time.
For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?
The most rewarding aspect of being a creative in my book is seeing the effect (whether it’s overall perception or relation to the material) the audience has on work I’m involved with. From a viewer standpoint I always enjoy being able to really enjoy a character’s journey and a great story being told so I always take that with me whenever I’m helping build a character that I’m going to portray.
Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?
I think the biggest misconception there is that non-creatives have is the aspect that the work is “easy”. There’s so many times that the work behind-the-scenes is not seen and it might not be appreciated how the efforts the cast and crew puts in in order to have a well-told and engaging piece or performance is put together for the audiences to enjoy. There’s alot quite a bit of emotion toll that the cast and direction puts in to their work (whether it’s even a comedy being worked on) because there’s always a bit of them put in the characters or the story.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/Vincentjrichmond
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/vincentjrichmond
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vince.richmond9
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-richmond-21460211a/
- Other: imdb.me/vincentjrichmond
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