'What does it mean to live well as a creative in the world today?' As a career coach for Creatives this question sits at the core of my work. In the light of Covid-19 I decided to take this question to creatives of every kind, right across the industry and share our learnings.
Georgina Sherrington is a London based script editor and development producer for television. Her career in tv began as an actor playing the lead role of Mildred Hubble in the children's series 'The Worst Witch'. In this full talk we cover her journey from actor to script editor and development producer via LA, management consultancy, a stint at the BBC to how she found her current role and how it draws together all the strands of her experience.
2:20 Landing your first leading tv role at 12. How?
4:00 Being the female Harry Potter for five years.
6:28 What do you learn from being on set so much as a young person?
8:55 How did you manage the pressure of filming at that age?
10:00 Taking a break from acting to be a teenager.
12:50 Some direct advice for 23 yr olds on moving to LA
14:00 The difference between LA and UK agents
17:23 What was it like returning to London after LA
18:28 Getting a taste for producing
19:10 Loosening a single minded approach to acting to allow for more.
21:20 Happy actors enjoy hustling
21:17 Advice to actors; Write! and then produce.
25:30 Feeding a hunger for learning and effecting bigger change through consulting.
28:20 How did you know consulting was the right move?
32:30 Thinking of the longer game when choosing your next steps.
38:30 An actors approach to learning to walk a new walk.
41:30 The benefits of 18 coffees on a job search.
43:00 Don't Google, call someone.
45:10 Starting at the bottom to get to the top quickly and competently.