Creative Confidence Q & A with Guy Masterson

Creative Confidence Q & A with Guy Masterson

Kindling the spark that ignites your inspiration.

During the evening, Guy, will talk about a life in the arts and how true confidence can unleash creativity, and proven simple methods to guide a creative person from diffidence to confidence.

After an extraordinary event in 1981 and a chance meeting with a confidence coach in 1982, he has approached everything he has done with a sense of "if it can be done by anyone else, it can also be done by me ... and you ”.

Part One:

The Journey: Guy will relate the story of his life.

Part Two:

Insights: Guy will offer insights into the lessons he learned as a creative which have led to greater creative output, and how to achieve a level of confidence in one’s creativity to sustain a career.

More about Guy ...

Guy Masterson has been described as a “theatrical polymath” but prefers the more general ‘Jack of all trades’!

Having become a professional actor in 1985 in Hollywood, although not the household name Tinseltown encouraged him to visualise, he now considers his near 40 year career 'a success’ given that he is still in the profession 4 decades later!

However, over those years, he has, through both desire and by necessity, added many other strings to his creative bow. Aside from what he calls ’neck up acting’ i.e. being given a role in a play, tv or film, learning the lines and acting them well enough to be invited to do it again, he is now globally regarded as one of the finest solo theatre artistes working in the English language having given over 5000 solo performances all over the UK, around the world, in the West End and off Broadway.

He has won a Laurence Olivier Award and has been nominated for 2 more, directed two West End productions and one on Broadway; produced and/or presented over 150 shows at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival over 30 consecutive years; and over 40 shows in Adelaide Australia and has won awards on three continents.

Although not the film star he initially dreamed of becoming, he has recently written a screenplay which is currently in pre-production for which he is confident of success - though whether it brings him a coveted Oscar (tm), is no longer the point.

He is also an executive and speech and confidence coach, a busy dramaturg, and he can recite the whole of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood and Dickens’ 'A Christmas Carol' with all the right words and all necessarily in the right order.

On top of this, he has been married to the same person for 26 years with two daughters and resides in Hertfordshire less than 3 miles from where he grew up. He lost his father at the age of 10 which dramatically destroyed his confidence.

He now believes that the second most powerful emotion in life - after love - is confidence - something he claims he was entirely devoid of for eleven crucial years, and would likely have continued in diffidence but for an extraordinary event in 1981 with a megastar actor and a chance meeting in 1982 with a prominent American Confidence Coach both of whom changed his outlook - "and reversed everything.”

Host or Publisher Mary Browne - Clarity VA