The importance of making your own work
Meet Emily Carewe, a LAMDA alumn who's passionate about producing and making your own work.
Emily trained at LAMDA as an actor and graduated in 2017. She is Founder & Director of the LAMDA MishMash Festival which platforms and celebrates self-created work. She has 10 years of experience as a producer including working for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Sony. She is currently Creative Executive Producer at 45North where she produces and develops productions with artists, from commissioning through to full scale performance.
Emily is leading the Make your own show short course alongside Rosa Hesmondhalgh, we asked her to share what participants will learn on the course and the importance of creativity and producing work as a whole.
Why is this course important to you?
Making your own work has been the defining element of my career and the opportunity to provide others with the practical skills and confidence to do the same through the Make Your Own Show course, is a brilliant thing.
Why is making your own work so important for professionals, graduates and students at this current time?
Opportunities always fluctuate and it can be a real hit to your confidence and identity when you don’t feel in control of your career. By making your own work, you give yourself a platform to make a mark, create the stories you want to tell, and empower yourself as an artist.
What can attendees hope to get out of this course?
We’ll give them tangible and practical skills for all stages of making work – from the creative and story development, through to budgets, fundraising and approaching venues.
We will tailor the course to people with all levels of experience with writing and making work, as well as with self-producing. Using our own experiences we will take you through, step by step, in as practical and involved a way as possible. If you’ve never produced anything before, or if you have but want to refresh your skills – there will be something for you!
Join Emily and Rosa on the course this February.
