An Actor Turned Potter | Lesley Bevan | Episode 994
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Lesley Bevan is an artist and voice over actor currently living in Chicago, IL. Lesley received a BS in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and enjoyed a career in theatre, TV and film, regionally and internationally, for over 20 years. Lesley took her first pottery class in 1999, while a resident actor at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. For years Lesley chased two passions, clay by day and theatre by night, sometimes smuggling work into her dressing room to slip-trail pots during intermission. Lesley clearly remembers the matinee when she found herself onstage performing Lady MacBeth's "Out Damned Spot" speech in front of an audience of 500 people while simultaneously working out the design for a new mug in her head. It was a moment of clarity. By 2015, Leslie had committed to a full time career in clay. Today, Lesley is a studio artist at Lillstreet Art Center, where she creates her own work and fires the soda kiln for a robust soda firing program.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:01.9 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:13.9 | Well, here we are in episode number 994 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:19.4 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:39.1 | What a day. What a day. Oh, my word. I'm recording this on Wednesday afternoon. Exactly 406 as I look at the clock right now. This is the day before the episode. But I mentioned to you that I had some sutures that had to come out of my eyeball. |
| 0:41.3 | And, hmm, that was a lot of fun. |
| 0:45.5 | It was a lot of fun. |
| 0:46.4 | I will not go into details because it is pretty brutal. |
| 0:51.6 | Oh, my word. |
| 0:53.2 | Well, after all the numbing settled down, I am now sitting in my office, you know, thinking that, |
| 1:01.6 | okay, I got my, you know, the work done, and I got home. |
| 1:06.6 | Oh, boy, then the numbness is worn off., whew, man, I feel it. It feels like somebody stepped |
| 1:20.3 | to my eyeball. That's what it feels like. It is not, it is not a fun sensation. But I got to |
| 1:25.5 | get the episode out so I figured I would get this, get this part of it recorded, |
| 1:31.2 | and then I'll get the episode out and I'll go lay down for hopefully the rest of the |
| 1:36.3 | rest of it. |
| 1:36.5 | I'm thinking probably by tomorrow, you know, like all that anger of, you know, digging around |
| 1:41.6 | is going to be gone. |
| 1:45.7 | I'll just tell you this one little part is that the sutures are kind of deep in the eye. |
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