About Audrey
Audrey Rumsby served as chair of the san jose public art commission throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. She is an award winning director and actor for the stage and screen, having performed and/or directed more than 75 full-length stage and film productions in London, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Her first feature film, “Barry & Joan” was screened at the Cannes Film Festival last year and is now available to stream on Netflix Europe and Amazon Prime in the US. In the UK, She and her work have been featured by BBC Radio 4, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Daily Mail. She’s hailed as a source of inspiration and guidance to other creatives wanting to blaze their own paths and make a living while doing it.
She’s developed a radical, toss the book approach to fundraising and pitching creative projects, and her mission is to help others build solid creative careers using her methods.
“Funding and opportunities are abundant, if you know where to look and how to ask.”
— AUDREY
MILESTONE 1
European screening tour of my first feature film, Barry & Joan
MILESTONE 2
Raised my first Million $ in arts funding through private donors
MILESTONE 3
Filed my first technology patent and founded a startup: StyleID
MILESTONE 4
Launched a course & coaching program to help artists fund their projects
MANIFESTO
I get a crazy sense of reward from bringing people out of their shells and showing them what they can really do. As a director, performer and startup CEO, I love telling true stories about incredible people who are radically themselves. I get high off of seeing people take off and fly because of something I saw in them. This is my life’s work. The “why” behind everything I do. Great stories are what make life happy. I believe that we run a terrible risk in Silicon Valley and other parts of the world. We forget that in the midst of playing God, we risk losing our humanity.
What makes humans human? Our ability to tell stories. We’ve been doing this since the dawn of time. We use storytelling in every aspect of our lives. When we mourn, we tell stories. When we need inspiration, we look to stories. When we rest, we listen to the stories of others. It’s the one constant in our lives and consequently must not be overlooked.
