Performer/Director/Producer Laura Caswell is on Cue To Cue today! Laura was back for a quick visit home to Toronto before she headed back to Halifax to perform in a play, Tompkinsville with Eastern Front Theatre and I am so glad we made time to get this interview in before she headed back. Laura was candid and open about her experiences and journey as an artist and talk about her tendency to wear many different hats and how she is now embracing and seeing that particular trait to hear advantage now.
Some of the topics we cover in this episode are why she wants to pursue being an artistic director of a regional theatre, what some of her biggest takeaways were from going AMDA in New York at the age of 19, what the difference between being scattered and a multipotentialite and how she has started to recognize certain cycles and patterns she has and how she is striving to balance certain behaviours.
Laura Caswell: Being A Multipotentialite
A little about Laura:
Laura Caswell was born in Ottawa, On. She studied dance growing up (RAD,ISTD) and then discovered theatre through musicals in community theatre. She went on to train in New York at AMDA and then to London, UK where she earned a Masters at Mountview Academy.
Laura has performed leads in musicals all over the country. She has recently worked a lot at Neptune theatre. She also works as a choreographer, director and assistant director and works as an arts educator through many outreach companies in the GTA. She continues to train in theatre and improv (second city), puppetry and cabaret.
Laura produces a variety night in Halifax and will be producing a holiday cabaret in Ottawa this season. She also dabbles in Stand Up comedy and is working on a new one-woman show focusing on the women of musicals and comedy including Carol Burnett.
Upcoming Events:
See Laura in Tompkinsville
http://www.easternfronttheatre.com/
Follow Laura!
Instagram: @thelauracaswell
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