Critical Feedback and Guarding Your Creative Fire

Performers & Creators Lab

Taking criticism isn’t always easy and people don’t always have your best intentions in mind when they give it. In this episode, we dish about this with guest and feedback veteran, Jade Raybin. Listen and learn about the best ways to give critiques and how to receive them, how to discern the note within the note, the importance of guarding your creative fire from unsolicited comments, creative suffering, the body’s role in creativity, unlocking your personal motivators and more in this fun chat with brilliant award winning screenwriter, playwright, and choreographer, Jade Raybin.

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Jade Raybin was raised by artistic criminals, so of course she writes about people getting away with wild schemes and pushing the edge - for better or worse. She writes about social experiments, where a “what if?” comes true and comeuppance is delivered through magical or sociological means. Whether she's writing a heist movie, a love story, a period drama, or a revenge thriller, love, magic, and the absurd abound.

Her film writing credits include JW Marriott's action comedy Two Bellman (SoH), Over the Moon (distributed by Shorts Int.) 3 Sisters (beats antique.)

As a playwright, credits include: Low Hanging Fruit & America’s Next New Anchor (Drama Mamas), 14 Times in Two Weeks (EPI), Blindspot (T-4), I Dream Reality & Operation Cool (CTE), and Superhero Academy, a self-esteem building activity book for kids.

She holds an MFA in Experimental Theater with a concentration in Performance Activism. Her pilot, The Golden Cage, placed as top ten finalist in a UCLA'a writing competition.

For more info, please visit www.JadeRaybin.com

About Your Host, Holly Shaw
Holly Shaw, CHT is a performance coach, creativity researcher and stand up comedian. Growing up in Indianapolis, IN she convinced her parents she needed to go to Chicago to get her own agent when she was 14 years old and has spent a lifetime in film, T.V. and on professional stages all over the world as an actor, dancer, and director.
Now she shares her passion for the problems that artists face as a Creativity Coach and a Certified Hypnotherapist and has helped hundreds of artists, from Emmy award winning and Grammy nominated artists to world class choreographers overcome their anxiety, stage fright, impostor syndrome, and creative blocks so that they can create original work and totally kill it onstage again and again without feeling like they're selling out or losing their sanity.
In 2016, Shaw wrote and released her book, The Creative Formula: Compose, Choreograph, and Capture Your Masterpiece which has become an Amazon bestseller. In 2018 she launched the Performers & Creators Lab podcast which was named one of 2019's most outstanding podcasts by Databird Research. She teaches regularly at the SAG/AFTRA offices in L.A. and SF and runs creative laboratory workshops like the Comedy Lab Open Mic once a month at Monaghan's on the Hill in Oakland. Follow her on Instagram @hollyshawspritely