“Don’t wait to be perfect” with Broghanne Jessamine — Fem Founder™

Broghanne Jessamine is an actor and the owner of Elemental Women Productions LLC. Originally from the North East of Scotland, Broghanne emigrated to the United States in 2012 to pursue her career in acting. Through her work as an actor, a need to truly explore and tell women’s stories grew. In December 2018, Elemental Women Productions was founded with the mission to amplify women’s voices and experiences through the arts.

Can you tell our readers about your background?

I grew up in the North East of Scotland with three sisters and my parents. I started performing on stage at a young age and fell in love with the storytelling aspect, and dressing up. As I got older the prospect of making the arts my career became more and more focused. When it came to my final year of school, I auditioned for a college here in NYC and was fortunately accepted. I then moved across the world to pursue my dream.

College in the US was not what I expected. I was often misunderstood and repeating myself because I had a Scottish accent. After graduating I started working and auditioning for real, balancing survival jobs, auditions, and booking acting gigs. For 2–3 years, I tried to fit into what they told us in school about how to get jobs. I worked to lose my accent and tried to get roles they told me I…