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

Wyatt, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

Oddly enough, the most meaningful project I ever worked on as a director for my own projects was Green Arrow: Year One. I wrote a much shorter version of my story for it years ago and then shifting into the voice acting/audio drama side of things allowed me to revisit it and improve on the original story as well as create something more meaningful for audiences to delve into. I have plans to do multiple seasons of this character – all for no profit since he does belong to DC – but I wanted to tell my own version of this man’s story as well as the stories of those in his world. I see a lot of personal struggle to be reflected in his friends, enemies, and the man himself as well as an opportunity to make our own commentary on the larger world we live in. What I’m saying is nothing new. But I hope everyone continues enjoying this series because it truly is a labor of love to create these stories for everyone.

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 have been acting my entire adult life and writing since I was a kid, obviously your work is a little silly when you’re a kid because it reflects your mindset at that time rather than just trying to tell a story. But as I continued acting, I grew to miss writing and I wanted to try my hand at it again for scripts. I started with stories for Green Arrow and Batman – two characters I felt I knew well enough to write compelling stories about and make it fun for others to enjoy. Then I challenged myself and wrote a completely original piece about the generational abuse and traumas that we suffer through. It was a stage play called Dad’s House and during the lighter end of the pandemic, I had the opportunity to put it onstage and audiences loved it. It was humbling to see that passion from the audience, I felt like I had created something that touched them and it only made me want to continue that streak. So I created CBW to not only tell more meaningful stories, but also to help create a community of like-minded creatives who are passionate for making art happen. If I do nothing else, I can at least successfully say I managed to accomplish creating that environment for people to feel free with their craft and happy to keep going.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

Having something to look back on once we’re finished. It’s a great feeling to see something you’ve created in a completed form, but even more rewarding to have an entire cooperative effort finished and completed to see everyone’s hard work out there for posterity. Whenever they all make it big and move on from wherever I’m at, I hope they’ll always be able to look at these projects as fondly as I do.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Society needs to allow artists to grow, they need to allow them the freedom to build and create. To give them the patience that comes with a creative process. Some of the most amazing works of art took years and patience, I hope we can all improve in being more nurturing to those who wish to create because art will last longer than any structure

Contact Info:

• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@cbwprofilms?si=aHLAM6Cz3pfJRPun
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/show/3P9btE9FrXsaKlR22Sm1I7?si=t-mPtWUmThOjwCncbMVjZQ

Image Credits

Many of these images were some promotional posters created by my editor Joseph E.W. and the last was a banner thumbnail for Memento Viviere created by longtime artist Evan Colin. Evan also created the original artist drawing of me that I submitted for my picture. Could not ask for a better creative team to work with