Meet Lo Lundeen

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Lo Lundeen. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Lo below.

Lo, so excited to have you with us today. So much we can chat about, but one of the questions we are most interested in is how you have managed to keep your creativity alive.
I keep my creativity alive by learning!

Since I was a kid, I’ve struggled with perfection, and the value of my work if it’s wasn’t what I deemed “perfect”. Being in LA, I have gotten so lucky to work as a producer, writer, and actor on my peers’ projects. For a lot of them, it was a learn-on-the job sort of gig. It felt like being given an OK to fail and hash things out and learn. Gaining the practical experience to boot made me feel like I would be able to do it again and again. I feel more confident expressing myself and experimenting. My art doesn’t need to be perfect to somebody else, as long as it’s what’s truthful to me.

Creativity has evolved a lot for me: I feel like I used to see my creativity through this microscope, and it had to be this very specific thing. I’m a person who lives creatively, I think we all are. Creatives are just creating a tangible form of something we all feel. I think the more I find new groups of friends and live through new experiences, my creativity shifts. I have a different story to tell.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
The coolest thing I’m up to now is my first short as an Executive Producer, They Slay. Our team is in the final rounds of post-production, which feels so incredible. We’re excited to host our first screening in July of 2024, and start to push for festivals! Overall, it’s been a massive learning curve. I’m proud of this project, and made some longtime friends and team-members.

I have two short films coming this year. The Rainbow Dungbeetle, the animated short starring Kevin Chamberlin, is currently in the festival circuit. Binge, directed by J.C. Heins and produced by Leon Price Jr., will be making it’s debut in the near future.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Something that has worked in my favor is adapting an adaptability mindset. I have grown as an artist, actor, producer, and teacher by taking on roles that are adjacent to what I want to do, but teach me new skills.

Inter-personality is a huge component. Your friends are there to help you! The more I lean into my creative friendships, the more inspired I am to create and collaborate.

Acting and being an artist is essentially about becoming curious about the world again. Rather than settling into letting the world happen, I want to exercise my opinion on why things happen and how things can change. Having an opinion about the world around you is freaky and overstimulating. Sometimes it just takes holding your ground, having core values, and being an empathetic artist.

Is there a particular challenge you are currently facing?
My number-one obstacle is being self-critical. I want to do everything and be everything- I’ve always loved being multi-faceted. I recently hit a point where I was critical at my lack of mastery in multiple different mediums. I’m not a master at everything, and that’s the point. I get to figure out what skills are important to me and master them over my life, and it doesn’t make me any less of an artist to want to try different things and have an interest in different skill sets.

I love the fact that I am a painter, a teacher, and actor, and a producer. All of those things meld into one another, and give me different outlets to be my own artist.

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