August 21, 2024 • 19 mins
LaRose is a world-traveling storyteller influenced by a diverse group of people and cultures. She is a proud graduate of the University of Southern California where she received her Bachelor's of Arts from both the School of Dramatic Arts and the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. As a student, LaRose was an actor in numerous productions and the producer of USC's first and longest running sketch comedy troupe, The Suspenders. Since graduating, she co-founded a professional sketch comedy troupe, Trifecta Comedy. She has performed in professional stage and film productions in both Los Angeles and Chicago. Also she has written comedic and dramatic scripts that have been recognized by Austin Film Festival, Funny or Die, SketchFest, Stage 32, and more. Currently, LaRose lives in Chicago where she continues to write, produce, and perform hoping to reflect the amazing culture around her.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello everyone, Oh my god, and welcome to the Ladies
Cell podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, it's Jae. It is Jade.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You know, I'm trying to be back to be the
co host because I don't want you to be like,
this is Jade she a ghost? Well well, I mean
I should be a ghost with this bad hair today,
cause it's bad all right, but hey, I made it
to the studio all time.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It don't matter. Please to understand that she's like with
her bad hair.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
This one when Jade watched into the studio today, she
looked at me and she said, oh, do something with
the front of that.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh my god, like and she just took the belt
off her dress and was like, put that on there. Love.
I don't know what she dog about. She has bangs
and looks cute. She was like, oh, I do not like,
don't even don't even.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I have given this hair over to I don't know,
but I have given it over apparently to the spirit realm.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
When she just returned from Yo, I just.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Gave it over. I gave it over anyway.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And Jade, yeah, so you already you don't need to
when the narcissist introduced you, it is done.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
We wrote books.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Oh I have sent sometimes, but we leave it on
a written page. We don't bring it real, like those
are that's lies.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
God. Can you imagine if we were actually can you imagine.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
If we were so serious, like hello, my name is cheap,
he would be like, oh my goodness, what's wrong with ja?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Okay? Anyway, So, and.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I thought series, and I thought The Boys was bad
with other life lessons, and I thought being grown it
was easy if only ivoring me widows web and that
and foreign coffee all available where you get your audio
books and or you know where you were accustomed from
the library, just saying yes, s sly sight hand more
(01:42):
more library bies all right, but you but you can
find out everything we're doing on www dot And I
thought ladies dot com.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But y'all want to hear the hair about me, talk
about my bad hair.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh hold on, no, dang it, because you know I
was about to say, you know you're here to hear
about me, but you're here to hear about our wonderful
guts for gas.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Would you like to introduce yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yes, So, my name is Larroe's Washington. I am a
theatrical and film producer who is uh embarking on doing
my first uh play that I changed from a screenplay
to a to a stage play, and so that's coming
up in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So yeah, okay, where am I going in Chicago?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It is in Chicago. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Also, I'm gonna need you to invite me so then
I can take it off with texts when it ye oldest.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Food Okay, Yeah, I'm okay with it. Here's the thing
I like. I literally make a list when people come
visit me of like here at the top, like ten
places you need to go because like if you like,
if you like Google like best places in Chicago, You're
gonna get the touristy stuff, but you need like the
local stuff. Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So we have discussed to Chicago, and I warned her
beforehand I want audience.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I wanted her. If she mentions food, I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Down the rabbit hole. Ye, not to forget the word rabbit,
just hit down the hole, and then I will think, no,
that doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Nothing different context.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah we're talking the rabbit hole. We go. Yeah, okay,
I have not had goods.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I had good soul food one time, never been able
to find it again so far. The best breakfast I've
had is in Naperville. Do we have a better breakfast
actually in Chicago?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Batter and Berries. It is in Lincoln Park, and it
is my favorite. It is my favorite. It's also black owned,
so great and like it is, it's fantastic. It is
my far my favorite breakfast place in like the country.
So you have mimosas it does well, Okay, it's everything
in Chicago's being io b So they have the orange juice.
(03:47):
But you gotta bring that. You gotta bring your own campaign.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh can arrange that. I mean, I'm a writer. I
can definitely range.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So Okay, we're not gonna go down the rabbit hole
too much because we need need to talk about one
more thing.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Okay, hot dogs?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yes, okay, So I always get mind just like kind
of off the street like kind of vendoring.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is this is this the true way to do this?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes? Yeah, Like you gotta go to like if if
you are like questioning some of the naming of it,
you're probably at the right place. So like Buda Keys
is a really big one, uh, Junior red Hots and
they all like these little like hot dog stands all
over Chicago. So that's the best way to that's the
best way to get a hot dog. Don't go anywhere fancy.
If it's fancy, it's not good.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Is the only place we go, like and all we
do is eat for eight hours, like literally eight hours,
because you literally can because even good as stupid, why
is the good?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I mean I love popcorn't get me wrong, I mean
like it's upset. I can't. Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But because you you said that you went from a
screenplay to actual well what I have gathered for my
my friends are screenwriters and my friends that or playwrights.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's like a completely different world.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
If like I went for much short story to maybe
like a full length you know, like twenty five hundred
I don't know, a like a really big no.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Wow, she writes for a living yard.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I write, Yeah, how is it different?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Sorry? How is it? Oh it's okay, So it's very different.
So I so I like started as a theater person.
So I went to college for theater. That is like
what I did. And then like as I was like
getting out of college, I started writing for like a
sketch comedy troupe. And so for them, we were like, oh,
we want to do stuff live and we want to
do stuff like film. So that's kind of where I
(05:54):
started honing that like skill between like theater versus film.
Film is very visual. It's all about like, oh can
you write can you write that? Like how that sunset?
What does it look like? And stages all words like
what words are you saying that are going to get
across to the audience. So yeah, So it was a
(06:14):
very big task moving from from a screenplay where like
most of it is like half the page is visual,
then the other half is like, Okay, now I have
to like say things because I can't just be like, oh,
grab cup, do things blah blah blah. The audience will
have no idea what I'm talking about unless unless it's
written on the page when someone says, hey, can you
(06:35):
pass me that cup? So yeah, so that's kind of
the transition between those two.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
So it's literally like writing a novel so and then
writing a screenplay. Yeah, yeah, I'm learning a lot more
because you know what I doing writing a ton of dialogue,
like a ton of like as of like backmail, because
if you can make it a little dialogue.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Heavy, it'll be OK.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
But anyway, so directions are also different, right, Yeah, direction
is also do stage.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so general movement of people typically, like
typically in theater you have way less spaces. I was
way too ambitious and so we have like ten to
twelve different scene transitions. So my cast does not like
me right now. But but it's gonna look so pretty
because the transitions are gonna be so smooth and like
(07:32):
I'll like lit beautifully. It's gonna be great. But yeah,
so the the biggest thing is like also theater will go, oh, hey,
you have one living room, do everything here versus film
you have like the world if your budget allows it,
simpl Yeah, that's the that's the biggest thing. So I know,
like for me, another big change was I had so
(07:53):
many like one liner characters who were popping in or
doing these things. Nope, had to cut that way down
to so it's a lot of like condensing down to
like the bare bones that you need to still effectively
tell the story. So that was another big big change
between those two.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
When you cut them down, did you add them into
like one of the main characters or something like that.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, So I know, like for there's this one character
that's in the screenplay named Monty. That character completely gone
all of his stuff to another character that I had
already had who had a like stronger arc, and so
then I kind of worked it into her arc instead.
(08:40):
It didn't go to the main character, but it went
to another person in the play who was like part
of the pivotal like six people who were like pushing
through this this story.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Did you plan that I developed the character more or
did you feel like she was a little too meaty
right there?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Life?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Honestly, I felt like it developed the character more me personally.
I honestly think it changed a lot of the relationships
between the main character and like who who was her
ex best friend at that time? Like, so it actually
ended up working out really really well that that that
that chunk got moved to her because it ended up
(09:16):
giving their their relationship more depth to it than what
was in the original screenplay.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And how did you do that?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Because there are so many authors that ask us right like, well,
I want to do a play or I want to
do a screenplay, but they have like a six hundred
page novel and they want.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
The page to be three. You can't have to is
you have to.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Put yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Pages right, So, what is one of those things that
when you knew you had to cut Manty and put
them in another character, Like, how did you make that decision?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Then how did you integrate this?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, I honestly think I made that decision by going
out of these two characters if I have to, And
like me and my friends always say, cut your darlings,
which are like the things that you really want to
hold on to, and Manty was one of those for me.
But I at the end of the day, I went, Okay, what, like,
what serves the story more? Is it this one person
(10:17):
or is it this other person? And then from that
I was like, okay, cool, he's gotta go. And then
from like how I changed it because Monty was a
very very different character from Jasmine, who is who got
all of the chunk of stuff is? I then had
to go, okay, cool, I know how Monty like would
deliver this if I'm trying to get the same message across,
(10:38):
how would Jasmine say it? So that you just kind
of had to change it into the character voice of
the person that it was going to, rather than like
just smacking those lines into her, because that would have
been very weird and she would have been an inconsistent character.
She got half of his stuffs.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So okay, so now we gotta have production questions. Yes,
how did you get into producing screenplays and or theater?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, so I so I mentioned I started it in theater.
It was one of my friends in college was like, Hey,
you want to produce this thing, and I was like,
I don't know what that is, and he was like, okay,
do it. Anyways. I was like, okay, So I had
gotten into to theater first. I was doing theater up
until COVID, so I was producing a bunch of plays
(11:27):
there and then COVID hit theater world went very very away,
but film didn't, so I needed money, so I switched
to film and that's how I got into that. And
I actually worked for a food and beverage company, so
we specialized in food and beverage. That's what I do
for like my day job for film. So then I
(11:48):
kind of got into like the commercial side of things.
And then in my spare time of just like doing
like little short sketches for my sketch comedy Troupe, I
was like, okay, cool, Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna get
more into like screenplays and narratives. So that's kind of
how that came about. I'm like, I'm the type of
(12:08):
person who's like, someone's like, do you want to do
this thing? And I'm like kind of going blindly. So
that's how I kind of got into both of those things.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Saying that someone explained how someone someone explained how we
do things, how the two of us do things. They
were like, so, what what did these ladies do? And
they have they done this before? And they're like, oh,
so what they do is they jump into the deep
end of the pool and then they figure out how
to swim.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I very much that.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Sure, give it a shot. Why not?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah? I like, I think I think the thing is
like y'all might know, though, I feel like sometimes I go,
oh yeah, jump in and I have no ideas to defend,
and it's like, ohit all right, I'm sorry, I can't. No.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I was like, but you're like, oh stuff and nonsense.
This is a.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Realize that.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It looked like a way I thought it was just
this big Oh no, it's done so east.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And then that's fun because you get to dissect problems
like big problems. You're like, I gotta make them down
to my level now. But then we'll take the next
piece and then and that's how you live to end
up treading water and the next thing you know, you're
swimming and you're like, hey, I'm good at this now
yeah yeah okay, or in.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Time to get out of the pool one of the two.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
And yep, and then you but sometimes you're like, who
knew I was gonna be half decent?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, okay, So that's how you got into producing.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I love that, but yeah, that is how we do
it too. Do you want you're oh shoot.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Oh shoot, yeah, because I also feel like producing is
one of those things that, like I say, like we're
like the magicians. No one really knows what we do,
but we do like so much. So I feel like
anytime someone's like, oh, let me introduce producing to someone,
they're like, haha, to this like secret society.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
So we're going, so we have We've interview quite a
few producers and oh yeah, I don't ever want y'all's job.
It's like event planning that people can actually see. Yes,
yes it is for everyone. Yes that's not cool.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I love it. I love it a lot. I mainly
love it because, like I like, I get to feel
like a magician in a weird way, and that it's like, oh,
like I I did this thing and now it's here
and you can experience it and you can love it.
And I also think because there are so many people
(14:45):
who don't like doing it, I'm like, oh wait, but
I love organizing people. That's like one of my favorite
things to do. So it's exciting to be able to
like honestly like bring people's visions to life. That's kind
of what I That's why.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
So I do have another question. How do you keep
everyone on budget to be part of the budget.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yes, honest answer people room. So, so to keep people
on budget, you go under budget with their budget because
like so you just have to keep track and make
sure that like you're like, oh, especially if you've worked
with them before, you're like, oh, this person has a
(15:24):
tendency of going over. This person has a tendency of
going under, and you kind of like literally try to
balance the budget from from that. So yeah, yeah, it
makes sense. Does that makes sense?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
So I can never do this job because I would
start off with, well, under budget.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We're under budget. I don't understand what we need? A
camera apple bated iPhone is very good. I don't understand.
Let's start from there. Well, okay, you said three this
person make the.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Pla oh my god, now I do that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That's will though we no will keep you under a
budget if you want.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
To or not, Yes, that'll that'll do it.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But if you have it, use it. Oh so my my.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Next to the last question, because we do have to
ask what the name of her? Yeah, but that's that's
one of the play please yes. And then you said
that you did shoots and commercials and you worked as
a producer, and all I want to know about are.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Craft tables.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
M Okay, it's good.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I heard the best the best crafts in the business
are commercials.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
The best craft Okay, so two caveats One, the best
craft is commercials. Two. I also work in food and
beverage like that is so we so we like typically
do shoots for companies that do food. Our crafty tables
are amazing, mainly because like our clients expect our crafty
(17:08):
tables to be amazing. They're like, oh, like, well, we're
like the Starbucks of the world. You have to like
have good food. So our our crafty tables are amazing.
So I.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, friend, friend, if you didn't even know friend, we're
doing on.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Like I said, that's so creepy, Like Hi friend, he
little friends, wait till I get to crafty.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Just a truly come in for the crafty like Hi,
Lara's walk out pretty much.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
You know I'm joking. No, I'm gonna at least say
how you doing. I mean, that's just.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You can't come to the next one.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
You can tell me about in my boxes that I
bought with me from the takeout place.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Lord. Okay, So, although we need to know the name
of your play and how we will get tickets.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yes, okay. So the play is called Within a Shadow
and tickets are found at the Den Theater in Chicago,
So that's where that's at. And then it is going
on from September fifth to October thirteenth, so that's very
exciting part. And then like for the people who don't
live in Chicago, we are filming the play, so then
(18:20):
a live like filmed version of it will also get
released online.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
What are we filming? I mean, what are you filming? Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
So what I am filming midway through the run in September.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Okay, I just want to make sure I knew when
I needed to show up, So when are.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We filming would be you know, it's a real question.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
And why can people find it out more about you?
Follow you if you up all the things.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, so for for the place for the play specifically,
that's those words. They can follow at within a shadow
on Instagram TikTok and then lex the movie is the
name of the production company, so they find that on Facebook.
If you want to know more about me, I am
www dot Larosewashington dot com. So that's everything that that
(19:09):
I'm doing along with my Instagram handle is at La
La Rose five.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Oh, I love it. I am so jelly. Thank your
name and she said, I was like, oh, this is amazing.
We should wrap. Yeah, we should.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
So you can find out everything your ladies are doing
on www dot and Lord ladies dot com. And while
you're there, take a moment go to the middle of
the patients to the charges that we probably support hopefully
can support them Allso we thank you in advance for that,
and just remember, y'all wisdom is all around you. Oh wait,
thank my guests for coming on.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Just remember y'all wisdom is all around you. They're open
to finding it and accepting is a piece of love
you guys, from Well, Momenta and Jade Bye bye, oh yeah.
Thanks for listening.
Hello everyone, Oh my god, and welcome to the Ladies
Cell podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, it's Jae. It is Jade.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You know, I'm trying to be back to be the
co host because I don't want you to be like,
this is Jade she a ghost? Well well, I mean
I should be a ghost with this bad hair today,
cause it's bad all right, but hey, I made it
to the studio all time.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It don't matter. Please to understand that she's like with
her bad hair.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
This one when Jade watched into the studio today, she
looked at me and she said, oh, do something with
the front of that.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh my god, like and she just took the belt
off her dress and was like, put that on there. Love.
I don't know what she dog about. She has bangs
and looks cute. She was like, oh, I do not like,
don't even don't even.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I have given this hair over to I don't know,
but I have given it over apparently to the spirit realm.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
When she just returned from Yo, I just.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Gave it over. I gave it over anyway.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And Jade, yeah, so you already you don't need to
when the narcissist introduced you, it is done.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
We wrote books.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Oh I have sent sometimes, but we leave it on
a written page. We don't bring it real, like those
are that's lies.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
God. Can you imagine if we were actually can you imagine.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
If we were so serious, like hello, my name is cheap,
he would be like, oh my goodness, what's wrong with ja?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Okay? Anyway, So, and.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I thought series, and I thought The Boys was bad
with other life lessons, and I thought being grown it
was easy if only ivoring me widows web and that
and foreign coffee all available where you get your audio
books and or you know where you were accustomed from
the library, just saying yes, s sly sight hand more
(01:42):
more library bies all right, but you but you can
find out everything we're doing on www dot And I
thought ladies dot com.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But y'all want to hear the hair about me, talk
about my bad hair.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh hold on, no, dang it, because you know I
was about to say, you know you're here to hear
about me, but you're here to hear about our wonderful
guts for gas.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Would you like to introduce yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yes, So, my name is Larroe's Washington. I am a
theatrical and film producer who is uh embarking on doing
my first uh play that I changed from a screenplay
to a to a stage play, and so that's coming
up in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So yeah, okay, where am I going in Chicago?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It is in Chicago. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Also, I'm gonna need you to invite me so then
I can take it off with texts when it ye oldest.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Food Okay, Yeah, I'm okay with it. Here's the thing
I like. I literally make a list when people come
visit me of like here at the top, like ten
places you need to go because like if you like,
if you like Google like best places in Chicago, You're
gonna get the touristy stuff, but you need like the
local stuff. Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So we have discussed to Chicago, and I warned her
beforehand I want audience.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I wanted her. If she mentions food, I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Down the rabbit hole. Ye, not to forget the word rabbit,
just hit down the hole, and then I will think, no,
that doesn't know.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Nothing different context.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah we're talking the rabbit hole. We go. Yeah, okay,
I have not had goods.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I had good soul food one time, never been able
to find it again so far. The best breakfast I've
had is in Naperville. Do we have a better breakfast
actually in Chicago?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Batter and Berries. It is in Lincoln Park, and it
is my favorite. It is my favorite. It's also black owned,
so great and like it is, it's fantastic. It is
my far my favorite breakfast place in like the country.
So you have mimosas it does well, Okay, it's everything
in Chicago's being io b So they have the orange juice.
(03:47):
But you gotta bring that. You gotta bring your own campaign.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh can arrange that. I mean, I'm a writer. I
can definitely range.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So Okay, we're not gonna go down the rabbit hole
too much because we need need to talk about one
more thing.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Okay, hot dogs?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yes, okay, So I always get mind just like kind
of off the street like kind of vendoring.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is this is this the true way to do this?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes? Yeah, Like you gotta go to like if if
you are like questioning some of the naming of it,
you're probably at the right place. So like Buda Keys
is a really big one, uh, Junior red Hots and
they all like these little like hot dog stands all
over Chicago. So that's the best way to that's the
best way to get a hot dog. Don't go anywhere fancy.
If it's fancy, it's not good.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Is the only place we go, like and all we
do is eat for eight hours, like literally eight hours,
because you literally can because even good as stupid, why
is the good?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I mean I love popcorn't get me wrong, I mean
like it's upset. I can't. Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But because you you said that you went from a
screenplay to actual well what I have gathered for my
my friends are screenwriters and my friends that or playwrights.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's like a completely different world.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
If like I went for much short story to maybe
like a full length you know, like twenty five hundred
I don't know, a like a really big no.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Wow, she writes for a living yard.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I write, Yeah, how is it different?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Sorry? How is it? Oh it's okay, So it's very different.
So I so I like started as a theater person.
So I went to college for theater. That is like
what I did. And then like as I was like
getting out of college, I started writing for like a
sketch comedy troupe. And so for them, we were like, oh,
we want to do stuff live and we want to
do stuff like film. So that's kind of where I
(05:54):
started honing that like skill between like theater versus film.
Film is very visual. It's all about like, oh can
you write can you write that? Like how that sunset?
What does it look like? And stages all words like
what words are you saying that are going to get
across to the audience. So yeah, So it was a
(06:14):
very big task moving from from a screenplay where like
most of it is like half the page is visual,
then the other half is like, Okay, now I have
to like say things because I can't just be like, oh,
grab cup, do things blah blah blah. The audience will
have no idea what I'm talking about unless unless it's
written on the page when someone says, hey, can you
(06:35):
pass me that cup? So yeah, so that's kind of
the transition between those two.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
So it's literally like writing a novel so and then
writing a screenplay. Yeah, yeah, I'm learning a lot more
because you know what I doing writing a ton of dialogue,
like a ton of like as of like backmail, because
if you can make it a little dialogue.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Heavy, it'll be OK.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
But anyway, so directions are also different, right, Yeah, direction
is also do stage.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so general movement of people typically, like
typically in theater you have way less spaces. I was
way too ambitious and so we have like ten to
twelve different scene transitions. So my cast does not like
me right now. But but it's gonna look so pretty
because the transitions are gonna be so smooth and like
(07:32):
I'll like lit beautifully. It's gonna be great. But yeah,
so the the biggest thing is like also theater will go, oh, hey,
you have one living room, do everything here versus film
you have like the world if your budget allows it,
simpl Yeah, that's the that's the biggest thing. So I know,
like for me, another big change was I had so
(07:53):
many like one liner characters who were popping in or
doing these things. Nope, had to cut that way down
to so it's a lot of like condensing down to
like the bare bones that you need to still effectively
tell the story. So that was another big big change
between those two.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
When you cut them down, did you add them into
like one of the main characters or something like that.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, So I know, like for there's this one character
that's in the screenplay named Monty. That character completely gone
all of his stuff to another character that I had
already had who had a like stronger arc, and so
then I kind of worked it into her arc instead.
(08:40):
It didn't go to the main character, but it went
to another person in the play who was like part
of the pivotal like six people who were like pushing
through this this story.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Did you plan that I developed the character more or
did you feel like she was a little too meaty
right there?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Life?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Honestly, I felt like it developed the character more me personally.
I honestly think it changed a lot of the relationships
between the main character and like who who was her
ex best friend at that time? Like, so it actually
ended up working out really really well that that that
that chunk got moved to her because it ended up
(09:16):
giving their their relationship more depth to it than what
was in the original screenplay.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And how did you do that?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Because there are so many authors that ask us right like, well,
I want to do a play or I want to
do a screenplay, but they have like a six hundred
page novel and they want.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
The page to be three. You can't have to is
you have to.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Put yeah, like.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Pages right, So, what is one of those things that
when you knew you had to cut Manty and put
them in another character, Like, how did you make that decision?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Then how did you integrate this?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, I honestly think I made that decision by going
out of these two characters if I have to, And
like me and my friends always say, cut your darlings,
which are like the things that you really want to
hold on to, and Manty was one of those for me.
But I at the end of the day, I went, Okay, what, like,
what serves the story more? Is it this one person
(10:17):
or is it this other person? And then from that
I was like, okay, cool, he's gotta go. And then
from like how I changed it because Monty was a
very very different character from Jasmine, who is who got
all of the chunk of stuff is? I then had
to go, okay, cool, I know how Monty like would
deliver this if I'm trying to get the same message across,
(10:38):
how would Jasmine say it? So that you just kind
of had to change it into the character voice of
the person that it was going to, rather than like
just smacking those lines into her, because that would have
been very weird and she would have been an inconsistent character.
She got half of his stuffs.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So okay, so now we gotta have production questions. Yes,
how did you get into producing screenplays and or theater?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, so I so I mentioned I started it in theater.
It was one of my friends in college was like, Hey,
you want to produce this thing, and I was like,
I don't know what that is, and he was like, okay,
do it. Anyways. I was like, okay, So I had
gotten into to theater first. I was doing theater up
until COVID, so I was producing a bunch of plays
(11:27):
there and then COVID hit theater world went very very away,
but film didn't, so I needed money, so I switched
to film and that's how I got into that. And
I actually worked for a food and beverage company, so
we specialized in food and beverage. That's what I do
for like my day job for film. So then I
(11:48):
kind of got into like the commercial side of things.
And then in my spare time of just like doing
like little short sketches for my sketch comedy Troupe, I
was like, okay, cool, Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna get
more into like screenplays and narratives. So that's kind of
how that came about. I'm like, I'm the type of
(12:08):
person who's like, someone's like, do you want to do
this thing? And I'm like kind of going blindly. So
that's how I kind of got into both of those things.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Saying that someone explained how someone someone explained how we
do things, how the two of us do things. They
were like, so, what what did these ladies do? And
they have they done this before? And they're like, oh,
so what they do is they jump into the deep
end of the pool and then they figure out how
to swim.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I very much that.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Sure, give it a shot. Why not?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yeah? I like, I think I think the thing is
like y'all might know, though, I feel like sometimes I go,
oh yeah, jump in and I have no ideas to defend,
and it's like, ohit all right, I'm sorry, I can't. No.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I was like, but you're like, oh stuff and nonsense.
This is a.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Realize that.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It looked like a way I thought it was just
this big Oh no, it's done so east.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
And then that's fun because you get to dissect problems
like big problems. You're like, I gotta make them down
to my level now. But then we'll take the next
piece and then and that's how you live to end
up treading water and the next thing you know, you're
swimming and you're like, hey, I'm good at this now
yeah yeah okay, or in.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Time to get out of the pool one of the two.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
And yep, and then you but sometimes you're like, who
knew I was gonna be half decent?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Okay, yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, okay, So that's how you got into producing.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I love that, but yeah, that is how we do
it too. Do you want you're oh shoot.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Oh shoot, yeah, because I also feel like producing is
one of those things that, like I say, like we're
like the magicians. No one really knows what we do,
but we do like so much. So I feel like
anytime someone's like, oh, let me introduce producing to someone,
they're like, haha, to this like secret society.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
So we're going, so we have We've interview quite a
few producers and oh yeah, I don't ever want y'all's job.
It's like event planning that people can actually see. Yes,
yes it is for everyone. Yes that's not cool.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I love it. I love it a lot. I mainly
love it because, like I like, I get to feel
like a magician in a weird way, and that it's like, oh,
like I I did this thing and now it's here
and you can experience it and you can love it.
And I also think because there are so many people
(14:45):
who don't like doing it, I'm like, oh wait, but
I love organizing people. That's like one of my favorite
things to do. So it's exciting to be able to
like honestly like bring people's visions to life. That's kind
of what I That's why.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
So I do have another question. How do you keep
everyone on budget to be part of the budget.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yes, honest answer people room. So, so to keep people
on budget, you go under budget with their budget because
like so you just have to keep track and make
sure that like you're like, oh, especially if you've worked
with them before, you're like, oh, this person has a
(15:24):
tendency of going over. This person has a tendency of
going under, and you kind of like literally try to
balance the budget from from that. So yeah, yeah, it
makes sense. Does that makes sense?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
So I can never do this job because I would
start off with, well, under budget.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We're under budget. I don't understand what we need? A
camera apple bated iPhone is very good. I don't understand.
Let's start from there. Well, okay, you said three this
person make the.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Pla oh my god, now I do that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That's will though we no will keep you under a
budget if you want.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
To or not, Yes, that'll that'll do it.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But if you have it, use it. Oh so my my.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Next to the last question, because we do have to
ask what the name of her? Yeah, but that's that's
one of the play please yes. And then you said
that you did shoots and commercials and you worked as
a producer, and all I want to know about are.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Craft tables.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
M Okay, it's good.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I heard the best the best crafts in the business
are commercials.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
The best craft Okay, so two caveats One, the best
craft is commercials. Two. I also work in food and
beverage like that is so we so we like typically
do shoots for companies that do food. Our crafty tables
are amazing, mainly because like our clients expect our crafty
(17:08):
tables to be amazing. They're like, oh, like, well, we're
like the Starbucks of the world. You have to like
have good food. So our our crafty tables are amazing.
So I.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, friend, friend, if you didn't even know friend, we're
doing on.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Like I said, that's so creepy, Like Hi friend, he
little friends, wait till I get to crafty.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Just a truly come in for the crafty like Hi,
Lara's walk out pretty much.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
You know I'm joking. No, I'm gonna at least say
how you doing. I mean, that's just.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
You.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You can't come to the next one.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
You can tell me about in my boxes that I
bought with me from the takeout place.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Lord. Okay, So, although we need to know the name
of your play and how we will get tickets.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yes, okay. So the play is called Within a Shadow
and tickets are found at the Den Theater in Chicago,
So that's where that's at. And then it is going
on from September fifth to October thirteenth, so that's very
exciting part. And then like for the people who don't
live in Chicago, we are filming the play, so then
(18:20):
a live like filmed version of it will also get
released online.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
What are we filming? I mean, what are you filming? Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
So what I am filming midway through the run in September.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Okay, I just want to make sure I knew when
I needed to show up, So when are.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We filming would be you know, it's a real question.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
And why can people find it out more about you?
Follow you if you up all the things.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, so for for the place for the play specifically,
that's those words. They can follow at within a shadow
on Instagram TikTok and then lex the movie is the
name of the production company, so they find that on Facebook.
If you want to know more about me, I am
www dot Larosewashington dot com. So that's everything that that
(19:09):
I'm doing along with my Instagram handle is at La
La Rose five.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Oh, I love it. I am so jelly. Thank your
name and she said, I was like, oh, this is amazing.
We should wrap. Yeah, we should.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
So you can find out everything your ladies are doing
on www dot and Lord ladies dot com. And while
you're there, take a moment go to the middle of
the patients to the charges that we probably support hopefully
can support them Allso we thank you in advance for that,
and just remember, y'all wisdom is all around you. Oh wait,
thank my guests for coming on.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Just remember y'all wisdom is all around you. They're open
to finding it and accepting is a piece of love
you guys, from Well, Momenta and Jade Bye bye, oh yeah.
Thanks for listening.
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