Is it the third week in February already?!
Hello fellow creatives and collaborators!
I hope you all are staying safe and healthy as we begin to navigate our way back to a"working order". I'm Clayton Stocker Myers, a two-time award winning actor with over 70 credits in film, television, theatre, voiceover, and the occasional commercial. I've been fortunate enough to be able to explore a multitude of characters in a variety of medium and genre along the way. In doing so, I've learned that I find my voice best lends itself to truth seeking characters, tricksters, with devout love. I can of course expand beyond that, but it's undeniably my wheelhouse. So, if you happen to be casting, or know someone who is, I hope you'll keep me in mind.
This is only further notable when looking at my foray into screenwriting. I'm currently sitting on several screenplays, two short, and one feature-length, while presently developing treatments to roughly 13 other concepts. Some with aims to produce, others I'd be content to sell. Let me know if you'd be interested in reading/collaborating.
I'm always excited to be connecting with potential future collaborators and learning about others and their own journeys. Please feel free to follow my page, hit me up, or even find me via my website, IMDb, or social. All of which can easily be found via my Stage 32 Profile and a simple Google search. I'd post them here, but I don't want to overstep the rules.
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I love seeing someone as prolific as me. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one writing a dozen stories at the same time. Do you ever feel like it takes away from anything? Like you should just focus on one?
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I know... I can't believe it's already the third week of Feb myself. Great to meet you Clayton Stocker Myers!
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Hi, Clayton. Glad to connect. "It's What's On the Inside" looks interesting and fun.
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Thanks Maurice! It's a lovely little first feature film for the writer/director that I think will be well received. I had the good fortune of meeting him at the DAM Short Film Festival in Boulder City, Nevada and while I was visiting LA, he asked if I'd participate with a table read of the working script.
When I moved out here a few months later, he was beginning production and I offered to help behind the scenes if he needed any extra hands. I was happy to just be useful, but he then offered me a small walk-on part a few days later. Always a joy when we can all help one another out. =D
FV Everleigh, I can only hope I'll be worthy of "prolific", but am happy to pose for the time being if it means keeping from feeling alone on the mountain top. I feel very fortunate that my imagination and vivid dreaming continue to inspire me. I will say that prioritizing which story you want to tell first has been helpful to me. Whichever is closest to the chest. My feature has always been the one I knew I wanted to be the first feature I produced and was in. There are other feature length stories I'm curious to get into, but don't currently feel the passion to tell in the same way as I do this feature.
As for the shorts. I wrote one with intent to help a friend build footage for a reel that really showcases their wheelhouse and in doing so wrote what I feel like is a decent self-contained character study, but also perhaps a tease towards a continuation in maybe a web-series format? But the short itself still stands on it's own. The second short is admittedly a fan-film and love letter to a franchise I've cherished since childhood.
All three of these have always been written with practicality in mind when it came to how to produce them. Limited characters, limited locations, locations I feel confident I'd be able to acquire for low to no cost. Maybe it's from my indi-film background.
As for those 13 other ideas, some are grander than I could imagine producing on my own, but I have a general order as to which stories are speaking to me most to least.
I hope that helps,
Clayton
I'd love to hear more about your own process!
Clayton Stocker Myers Very impressive my friend. I'd love to connect and collaborate in the future :)
Thumbs up to you.
Welcome Clayton! You’ve come to the right place!! There are tons of future collaborators around here and loads of screenwriting resources. Hit up Jason Mirch, the Director of Script Services, for a free month of the Writers’ Room! J.mirch@stage32.com
We meet every week and have a lot of fun!
Clayton, that's a cool story about "It's What's On the Inside." Let me know if you need feedback on a film or script.
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Nice to meet you, Clayton. hope you are safe during these trying times and hopefully we can all meetup in real world
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Hi Clayton!
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Hi Clayton. Your stage32 bio page rocks already! The only thing missing is your onesheet and logline for the scripts you've written. Are you ready to pitch? If not, check out the AMAZING webinars. If you are ready to pitch, you are in the right place! No other online environment gives you access to real producers like Stage32. Cheers!