Rising Star Candace Mcadams: “Let’s shift the paradigm from surviving artists to thriving artists and create a foundation that supports emerging talent, especially those from underprivileged communities”

I would love to shift the paradigm from surviving artists to thriving artists and create a foundation that supports emerging talent, especially those from underprivileged communities. We are losing great talent every day simply because actors cannot afford to be actors. I recently had a friend tell me has to stop acting because he is a father now and he doesn’t want to be selfish when his family needs to eat. Instead of subsidies, many industry people jack up prices on the simple things actors need to even audition, much less survive. It’s expensive to be an actor. And what’s more, is that a kid from an underprivileged community cannot even begin to conceptualize spending that kind of…