Visionary storyteller and creator of worlds Anslem Richardson jams with author and Emmy-honored casting director Bonnie Gillespie about having a vision for your future, being true to your art, and cultivating enoughness early on in your journey.
Here’s the chat from our live session!
What are your key takeaways from Slem’s interview from the SMFA Summit? Share below in the comments! 🙂
Anslem Richardson is an actor, writer, artist, and filmmaker. He made The Tracking Board’s Young & Hungry List of The Top 100 Writers On The Verge. As a writer, Anslem is a writer-producer on Amazon Prime’s series The Boys and wrote on NBC’s Timeless. He is a Writers Fellow at HBO Access and a Screenwriting Fellow at Film Independent. His screenplay Bardos earned him the TriBeCa All Access Creative Promise Award in Screenwriting. He also received the IFP’s Gordon Parks Award for Screenwriting for his script The Subway Story. Anslem created, wrote, starred in, and directed on the short-form series Like So Many Things…, which aired on the IFC Channel. As an actor, Anslem recently starred in the film After We Leave. He starred in El Ganzo, for which he received Best Actor at Salento International Film Festival. He was also the star of The Locksmith, which received the Best of NEXT Award at Sundance Film Festival. He has appeared on NCIS: Los Angeles and Off-Broadway in The Exonerated. As a filmmaker, he is currently developing his short film Fractal, collaborating with the Jim Henson Creature Shop, Industrial Light & Magic, and executive producer Eric Kripke; as well as his feature directorial debut Bardos, with Populace. Anslem is represented for literary at CAA and Artillery Creative. He is represented theatrically by CAA and Patino Management.
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I have goosebumps!! A *real* superhero
Anslem, when using The Matrix as an example, I loved your mindset around creating reality and storytelling as a whole. I’m also a fan of how you prefer creative nuance over hitting your audience on the head with, “here’s the message!” Story/Content is King. “Take the note behind the note” is brilliant. Lastly, man, I really love the conversation about showing up fully as yourself, especially inside of your work, instead of guessing what casting wants.
I’m really glad I watched this. Thanks for sharing your story man.