What Kind of Artist Am I?

When you enter into an art school do not be alarmed to find a building full of people in a seemingly endless loop of existential crisis revolving around the question: What kind of artist am I? DON’T PANIC! Simply step over the people who have become trapped in their quest to categorize themselves, and make your way to the elevators and hope against hope that at least one of them is working today.

It seems ridiculous to me that a group of people who spend so much time trying to throw off the labels of the “outside world” spend just as much time trying to force themselves and other artists into a box. “I’m an actor, I’m a playwright, I’m a director–” and on and on it goes. Well, I’m here to say YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE ANY ONE OF THOSE THINGS. I’ll turn this into an I statement. I am an actor. I love acting and I love to be on stage performing a play or a musical or whatever the medium may be. No amount of work that I do in any other

I’ll turn this into an I statement. I am an actor. I love acting and I love to be on stage performing a play or a musical or whatever the medium may be. No amount of work that I do in any other

I am an actor. Some days there’s nothing I love to be on stage performing a play or a musical or whatever the medium may be. No amount of work that I do in any other field will ever sway my love for acting.

I am a playwright. Some days there’s nothing I love more than to melt away into a world of my own creation and explore the stories that my own mind can create on the page. I love to explore the nature of human (and sometimes non-human) relationships and to try to imagine how certain people would respond to a huge problem.

I am a drag queen. Some days there’s nothing I love more than to throw on a pair of pumps, a stunning gown (thank you very much) and hit the stage as Pumpkyn Spyce and make everyone wish they could be as fabulous as me.

I am an author. SURPRISE! I’ve been developing a book trilogy for a year and a half now, which often feels at odds with my theatrical pursuits.

I am not an actor, playwright, author or a drag queen. I am a storyteller. What I love doing above all is telling stories. And each story demands something different. Sometimes that story needs to be a production in which I play a single character, sometimes that story needs to be a play or book that I write and craft on my own, and still other times that story demands to be told by a boy in a dress. So don’t get lost in squeezing yourself into some box of artistic terminology. You are a creator and a storyteller no matter what form that story takes. The stories you tell are the stories you tell and you

So don’t get lost in squeezing yourself into some box of artistic terminology. You are a creator and a storyteller no matter what form that story takes. The stories you tell are the stories you tell and you should own them no matter what medium they choose to be told in.