Check Out Maxi Witrak’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Maxi Witrak.

Hi Maxi, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I’m a Seattle native; I went to school and lived in Baltimore and then New York before finally coming out to LA to act. I had always been the quintessential Type A personality, needing structure and craving direct results for my effort put in. But I was very lost personally when I graduated college and followed a curiosity I’d always had about acting, with no prior experience. After the first few years of struggling in LA, I started to find that I not only have a creative side but am driven to make things. Since beginning the acting journey, I have morphed into a filmmaker, a musician, a fitness professional, a model, and many other things, but mainly have found myself as a comedian. Of all the things I now identify as this has been the priority for the last few years.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Learning to take myself seriously and believing I have just as much of a right to be here as anyone else has been the biggest challenge. I’ve had to come around to not only viewing myself as a creative person but trusting that amongst so many talented people that I too have something worth giving. The biggest leap in my faith in myself and my purpose was when I started making my own things. Shorts, sketches, a web series, standup material, then music– and most recently, writing a collection of poetry to be released this month– they all took me out of the beginner-actor mindset of waiting for a handout and put me in the driver’s seat. Suddenly I didn’t feel so disposable as one of a million lookalikes. Anyone could be in these projects that we were all vying for, but no one but me could make the things I was making.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
Of all the areas I dabble in, the unifying theme is writing. I write my short films and music video treatments, I write my lyrics, I write my comedy. Whatever needs to come out will find its vehicle. ‘Unsent Postcards: things I never told you’ is just another example of that. I needed to get thoughts out of my head in order to make sense of them and just like unpacking a topic in standup where jokes come out, I started unpacking my thoughts about this relationship and poems came out. Because of that, my narratives, even the poetry, almost always have a comedic twist of some sort.

Alright so before we go can you talk to us a bit about how people can work with you, collaborate with you or support you?
My goal for 2021 is to work on as many other peoples’ projects as possible. Whether that’s writing lyrics for a track, acting in or directing your film, having a photoshoot, or chatting to see whether there are any questions I’m able to answer about something you’ve seen me do that you’d like to try, I love to be a part of making someone else’s vision come to life.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.maxiwitrak.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/maddmaxi
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/MaxiWG
• Youtube: www.youtube.com/MaxiWitrak
• SoundCloud: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0u6VyHl4nML5U5imP1D1E4?si=_3-KROpDQbezJk21y5oZ4w
• Other: https://www.etsy.com/unsentpostcards/listing/932687945/printed-postcard-with-original-poem-from?utm_source=Copy&utm_medium=ListingManager&utm_campaign=Share&utm_term=so.lmsm&share_time=1609995695829

Image Credits
Elko Weaver