BEAUTIFUL, POWERFUL, GORGEOUS with Lanise Antoine Shelley

We have an incredible guest for you today: Lanise Antoine Shelley!! I had the privilege of watching Lanise perform at Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada years ago and have admired her work and journey ever since. 

 

Lanise Antoine Shelley is a multi-passionate Haitian actress, director, playwright, podcast host and visual artist. You may know her from Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Empire, Discovery World, and Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Macbeth HD. 

 

She has had the immense pleasure of studying abroad six times while achieving a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, MFA from ART/MXAT at Harvard University, certificate in classical theatre from the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England.

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Additionally, she was nominated for the Princess Grace Award, nominated for a Jeff award, nominated Best Leading Actress by the BTAA, and was Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Chicago Fellow 2016. As a director, she served as Victory Gardens Theater's Directors Inclusion Initiative Fellow 2019. 

 

Learn how over the course of Lanise’s prolific career many opportunities birthed out of intuitive pings, and how she routinely summoned the faith, took leaps and followed the calls along the way. 

 

By the end of this episode, you will never show up to an audition without being donned in your finest attire!

 

You’ll discover:

• How Lanise’s vivid imagination as a child catapulted her into many artistic avenues
• Why Lanise prefers the terms intercountry, intercultural or interracial adoptee vs transracial 
• What Lanise encourages artists to do to allow themselves to absorb the world and apply it to their art
• Why Lanise dresses up for auditions (yes, you are Beautiful, Powerful, Gorgeous!)
• What artistic goal took her 9 years to manifest
• The 3 plays she performed in at Stratford Festival that blew her expectations 
• The biggest takeaways she got from studying at the Moscow Art Theatre 
• How she was inspired by a birth chart reading that ignited the trajectory of her podcast “When They Were Young”
• How she wrote and directed her play “Pretended” in quarantine
• Why Lanise is on a crusade to lift the fog and misconceptions on the fairytale centric qualities of adoption 
• How Lanise can talk so freely because of the healing work she has done 

 

We explore all of this and SO much more!! Take a screenshot of this episode and tag @lantoines and @serabanda in your Instagram stories to let us know what you thought of this episode!

 

Lanise provides her own special #speechforthestage for us so be sure to stick to the end and incorporate these awesome trills into your routine. 

 

Visit Lanise on facebook!

 

Check out Lanise’s website!

 

Tune into When They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of Adoptees and check out @youngadoptee on Instagram!

 

Be sure to check out One Child Nation on Amazon. 

 

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