2021: Actor, educator, drag queen Donzell Lewis hangs out with author and Emmy-honored casting director Bonnie Gillespie to discuss where Hollywood is headed, how gratitude is the key ingredient in success, and what it means to be in alignment with receiving your blessings.
Here’s the chat from our live session!
2020: Educator, entertainer, actor, writer, drag queen Donzell Lewis jams with author and Emmy-honored casting director Bonnie Gillespie about the power of unjudged creativity, the value of a healthy mindset, and how he knows when a project aligns with his vessel.
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Donzell is an actor, comedian, drag queen, and martial artist who is a southern gentleman at heart with a wild, wild west spirit. He can be sweet, sassy, trashy, and classy! His performance as Goldie in the world premiere play Dope Queens earned him a Broadway World nomination. As an educator, he was awarded the 2019 honorable mention for the American Theatre Wing’s Excellence in Theatre Education Award. His drag persona Layali Sunshine is a sultry kicking diva who won grand prize of Season 3 of UCB’s Drag Race. Donzell has also performed drag in many plays and movies. Be on the lookout for him as Diva in the upcoming movie D-Bait coming soon. When not performing, you can find him teaching theatre workshops, volunteering for the LGBTQ+ community, enjoying a really good donut, or training martial arts to Britney Spears’ music.
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No more future trippin! So motivational, thank you!
Isn’t Donzell inspiring?
Why is college SO disgusting and toxic?! We are paying people to kill our dreams because they couldn’t live theirs. They literally have NO. RIGHT. to tell us no. Not only because we are PAYING them to boost us not break us, but they literally don’t even have the real life “power” to give anyone a no. We need to get rid of these professors who choose to put their students in competition and holding us to their own rigid view of the world. We need professors that instead nurture a community. College should be our first group of friends, colleagues and network of creatives.
Donzell, you are such a LIGHT in this world…
Adore you! And I am CELEBRATING you, too!
What a beautiful, touching interview!
Yes to all of it…!
LOVE, TRUE ACCEPTANCE, COMMUNITY…
THANK YOU, Donzell, and DMMG, Bonnie!
<3 <3 <3