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Episode 240: Finding Evidence of Your Dreams with Franchesca Davis

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Franchesca Davis reframes networking as making connections without deciding in advance what someone can give you.

1. The Hollywood Bound Actor Podcast connects Franchesca Davis's acting career with Christine Horn's advice to create "evidence of" the roles actors want. 2. Horn interviews Davis, an actor, writer and producer who also worked on the Hollywood Bound Actors team for roughly three years. 3. Horn calls acting an "evidence-based business" and suggests filming one minute or less of a desired character for Actors Access or social media. 4. Davis traces her acting start to a sixth-grade Wizard of Oz audition, where an encouraged attempt at the Wicked Witch's laugh earned her the role. 5. Davis lived in New York from 2012 to 2019, performing in sketch comedy and plays while beginning to write her own projects. 6. After moving to Atlanta in 2022, Davis took classes, attended events and met the business partner with whom she established Create. 7. Davis describes Tsunami as an early self-produced project and outlines a developing short inspired by recurring dreams of conversations with her late grandmother. 8. Davis advises introverted actors to think of networking as "making connections" and attend without predetermined expectations about what others can offer. 9. Horn says the 2023 strikes exposed how closely she tied identity to bookings, while Davis names reading, trying recipes and taking walks as other sources of fulfillment. 10. Actors building connections and creating their own work.

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