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Feelin’ Worldly with Global Citizen
All you need is love a cool photographer friend who nominates you as someone shaping the city
Never been more flattered than when the incomparable Joana Meurkens texted me late one night: “btw I applied to a photography competition where we had to pitch a portrait series of someone changing the landscape of New York and I kinda wrote an essay about you hope that’s ok <3” Yes, Joana. That’s very ok. And it was even more ok when she ended up winning and we got to run around the village taking pictures with her film camera.
Business cards in hand, Joana and I took over the VIP tent at the Global Citizens music festival and danced to the dulcet tones of Tyla and Shakira. Not a single hip lied that night.
And as if that weren’t enough, she went on to write a stellar piece on me for her substack, full of only the most flattering near-truths imaginable. Take a look at it for yourself— and remember that if you ever need a photographer, you know who to call.
This week, I wrote…
Is That Your Resume or Are You Just Happy to See Me? How to Network Like a 24-Year-Old Italian Man with No Apparent Fear of Rejection, Death, or Prision
I don’t know if it’s because I’m American, because I’m a woman, or some heinous little cocktail of the two (my therapist would call it “internalized misogyny;” my father would call it “liberal guilt”), but when it comes to my career, I always look before I leap. An admirable quality, or so I was taught. Move boldly, but strategically. Do the work, send the invite, shake the hand, don’t get blacklisted— eventually the ladder will lower. I thought that was as fast as things could possibly go.
And then this motherfucker…
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About
Me
Electra Artemis is a New York City-born and raised Off-Broadway Playwright and Screenwriter. She holds a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, where she majored in English and minored in Astronomy.
She is a founding member of the Resident Dilettante production company and has written and produced several plays in New York and abroad. Her work has been shown in the Emerging Artists Spark Festival in New York City, and her play, How to Build a Gate, was recently featured as a finalist in the Soho Playhouse Lighthouse Festival. She’s excited to be revisiting an old favorite, The Rug: A Grief Comedy, for the Emerging Artists Spark Festival’s Fall season, and is equally thrilled to be joined by an incredible team of familiar and fresh faces.
Her new short film, To The Floor, is coming out of post-production and is currently being submitted to festivals.
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