Blog ARCHIVES

Between 2019-2021, I blogged about the creative process and the business of being an artist. I did my best to cram-jam my posts filled with useful tools, tips and hacks and straight-up honesty from my own point of view.

My focus was figuring out how we can overcome our creative blocks, actually finish our projects and earn money from our art. I also shared the work of Black and Global Majority artists.

Take a look around or see the posts by categories: creative process, self-producing, artist life hacks, artist series. I hope you find something useful here.

If you don't know...Nina Bowers

Nina Bowers is an actor & theatre maker, now based in London & raised in Ottowa, Canada.

”I make plays and things mostly related to escapism rooted in afrofuturist ideas and aesthetics. I spend the day writing, researching, and procrastinating.”

BIPOC Artist SeriesHaley McGee16 April 2021actor, solo show, theatre maker, afrofuturism

My Solo Show Origin Story

why & how I became a solo show creator & performer

In the autumn of 2007, I returned to Toronto from my first ever professional acting job (outdoor theatre on the farm theatre). I’d landed an agent but I was not having a good time. I was frustrated by my lack of creative control:

• I was bombing my auditions to play high school students in poorly written TV series or to sell toothpaste in commercials.

creative processHaley McGee13 August 2020solo show, one woman show, women in the arts, theatre, fringe, edinburgh fringe, edmonton fringe, toronto theatre, london theatre, monolgue