Today we’d like to introduce you to Megan Davis.
Hi Megan, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I got started when I was 8. That’s when I had my first professional role – singing in the opera. And I fell in love. I fell in love with all of it – the whole production experience. I started working backstage for shows that didn’t have any children in them. I just wanted to be around the magic of it as much as possible. And I still find it just as magical today as I did then standing in the center surrounded by all of the incredible music.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Is it ever smooth? I mean, it has definitely been hard. Being an artist is probably something where if you can do literally anything else and be happy – you should. I just can’t. I love it more than anything in the world. I would definitely say one of the harder things was the first film I wrote and produced. Seeing it all the way through from literal start to finish was hard. But insanely rewarding.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I act and I write. Films, plays and poetry. I have always acted. I guess I have always written, too, but I just didn’t ever share it with anyone. I am probably most known for playing Amber Heard in the Fox film about the trial. I am most proud of the short film I made about women’s rights called “Hemorrhage” that just won Best Female Short of the Year and Best Acting Duo of the Year at the Los Angeles Short Film Awards. I am also very proud of my debut poetry book – “What Breaks Us”. It was a very personal collection for me and I was terrified to share it. I wrote it at a very difficult time in my life, but it was through writing it that I found healing. And I structured it in the way that it came – first, heartbreak, then anger and rage, then sadness and grief, then sex, love, passion friendship, and ultimately spirituality and empowerment and healing. I think it is sometimes in those events and experiences that we feel will break us that we find ourselves the most. I was very scared to share that poetry, but it seems to be doing well! They got a billboard for it in Times Square and I am super proud that it is in a lot of female and queer owned bookstores throughout the US and abroad.
Any big plans?
I just want to keep creating. I don’t know what life will look like or how it will change – I suppose that is the fun and the adventure of it all – you get to choose your own adventure. But I know I will always find a way to create.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://megandavis.info
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meggydavis
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meganelizabethdavis
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganelizabethdavis
Image Credits
James DePietro
Matt Kallish
