{"id":8510,"date":"2020-03-30T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:07:03","slug":"i-am-definitely-a-new-yorker-at-heart-bianca-waechter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8510","title":{"rendered":"“I am definitely a New Yorker at heart.”-Bianca Waechter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exclusive interview with Bianca Waechter – Actress<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bianca Waechter is an Austrian actress working both in Europe and in the US. In December 2018 she graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and Stonestreet Studios for Film. She also trained in Florence, Italy, for a semester, doing Commedia dell’arte training. Since Bianca graduated she starred in a play, Extraordinary Aliens<\/em>, that she also co-wrote. The play is a comedy about the immigration process inspired by true stories and premiered at NYU Casa Italiana to a sold-out house and standing ovation. It then went on to perform a run at the LA Fringe Festival and the NY Winterfest with raving reviews. \u201cBy starring in a play about immigration I have really been able to form a lasting international community in New York,\u201d says Bianca. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bianca also just released a web-series that she produced, wrote\nand starred in, called La-Di-Da. <\/em>The\nseries isa mockumentary about an\nActing teacher and her class. It premiered at the Big Apple Film Festival last\nyear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bianca has performed in numerous other plays and short films. She\nalso had a guest star role in the crime show Homicide City<\/em> on Discovery ID, as well as star in an Austrian\ndocumentary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is now back in Vienna working on writing a second season for La-Di-Da. <\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Tell us a little about\nyourself, growing up and your passions. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\ngrew up in Vienna, Austria. My grandfather was an opera singer so Art was\nalways a big part of my family. I always loved going to the opera, singing,\ntheatre, movies. Watching old movies was a weekly ritual in my family. After\nspending a few years at an Austrian catholic School, I switched to the American\nSchool of Vienna, where I felt much freer to explore my interests and be\nmyself. I always participated in the High School plays. I remember when I was\nthe only 8th<\/sup> grader who got a part in Everyman,<\/em> I was so proud. I played the treasure and got to pop out\nof a wooden box. I felt like the coolest kid in the entire High School. Some\nwould probably argue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another\nhobby that always was a passion of mine is tennis. It really brought out my\ncompetitive side, making me hate it as much as I loved it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nHigh School I took a gap year to go to Peru, Lima, and work at a social\nproject. I wanted to go on an adventure and learn Spanish. I love learning\nlanguages. And traveling. It was an exhilarating feeling to travel all by\nmyself and also to be away from my family for so long without getting too\nhomesick. After that going to New York for university felt like a piece of\ncake. Which it wasn\u2019t, of course. I got to New York by myself with two small\nsuitcases while my roommate had a whole moving company. My credit card was\nblocked and I had to ask my RA for money so I could buy some bedsheets for my\nfirst night. I was off to a little bit of a rough start, but who isn\u2019t in New\nYork? New York is my favorite city. You can\u2019t hide from anything there. It\nshoves everything in your face. And you learn to survive. But my favorite thing\nabout New York are the wonderful, crazy and artistic people you meet there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What are you currently\nworking on? <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\njust released a web-series called La-Di-Da<\/em>\nthat I wrote, produced, starred in and co-directed. I am super excited about\nthis. It\u2019s a mockumentary about an acting teacher and her class. Disclaimer:\nDefinitely not based on any real acting teachers. The shoot was super fun. It\nis the best feeling in the world to see talented actors make something of your\nscript. Especially because my script was more of an outline and the whole\nseries was very much based on improvisation. The series premiered at the Big\nApple Film Festival last year and now we thought it would be the perfect time\nto put it up on Youtube. You know, with the pandemic and all I think people\nneed a laugh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is\nthe trailer to La-Di-Da<\/em>: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/362376326<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full episodes can be viewed here: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user58022555<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> How did the project start?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It started in Create Your Own Material Class. Seems\nfitting. The class was a part of my Drama major, but at the time we were all\npretty new to film and writing. But creating my own material turned out to be extremely\nfun and exhilarating. We each got one full class period, so 3 hours, to shoot\nand direct something that we wrote. I had a character idea about this\neccentric, over the top, delusional and hypocritical acting teacher that I\nturned into a short sketch.  The filming\nturned out to be so much fun that I wanted to make an actual project out of it\nand film a series. I used most of the same actors from the class as well. I had\nhelp creating the series from Pranav Kothary, who was a Film Major at NYU\nTisch. I couldn\u2019t have done it without him. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What journey does your character go on in the course of the web-series?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I play the lead, Maria Kurz. The delusional acting\nteacher. She is a mix of unbearable arrogance and ignorance, but there are\nmoments of extreme vulnerability that hopefully make her – if not likeable – a\nlittle more understandable. She is driven by a need for attention and\naffection. By the end of the series she shows more of her caring side and\nvulnerability, which will be further explored in Season 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Tell us a little bit more about this series, what is it about, who\nelse are you working with, and who is the director, producer, writer?  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a story about dreams. Broken dreams to be exact.\nIt\u2019s funny because all artists will recognize themselves a little in Maria.\nEven if unwillingly. It\u2019s hard to be an artist without an ego, because we all have\nsuch huge egos. But the ego is sometimes our fatal flaw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was working with most of the actors from my Create Your Own Material class. They knew the origin of the project and understood the style. Plus, they are all such great improvisors, which was essential for this project. We worked with a very small crew. You know, for budget reasons. I was doing most of the producer\u2019s work. I had Pranav Kothary working with me who took over most of the creative directing choices, even though we shared both roles. Pranav also helped me revise the script. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What is the most challenging role you have played and why? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most challenging role I have had to play was Mukthar\nMai from the documentary play called Seven.\n<\/em>It\u2019s a play written by seven women inspired by the true stories of seven\nwomen. My part was the part of a woman who was gang raped in Pakistan, overcame\nher trauma and went on to build schools for girls in Pakistan. The story was so\npowerful and I wanted to do it justice. The most challenging thing that I was\nworking on with the director was actually to take out the emotion. The\ndirector, Jacob Olesen, kept saying that adding extra emotion to that powerful\nstory would take away from it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> And the most fun one? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh the most fun one definitely Maria from the Web-Series.\nShe is eccentric, arrogant, self-important but also incredibly insecure. A fun\nmix that makes for a great character. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Describe your biggest accomplishment to date?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think my biggest accomplishment is to just survive\nanywhere. I don\u2019t want to list any of my plays or films as my biggest\naccomplishment because I am still learning. I mean I have definitely done work\nthat I am proud of but I am also at the beginning of my career. It would feel a\nbit arrogant. I have yet to win an Oscar, you know. But I do pride myself on my\nsense of survival. I feel like you could just throw me anywhere into the world\nand I would be fine. I am very adaptable to cultures and places and people. And\nI love adapting to new places. It\u2019s one of my biggest strengths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What other hobbies do you have? Have you ever considered branching out\ninto directing or screenwriting?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe in like 10 years. I mean yes, of course, I write\nand I have directed a little too. But I wouldn\u2019t call myself a writer or a\ndirector. But it is definitely great for an actor to at least dab into directing\nand writing at least a little bit. Creating your own work is vital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> If you weren\u2019t acting what would you be doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another life I would love to be a\nnature adventurer. You know, travel all year long and get adopted by family of\nwolves or tame a crocodile. Maybe I will get to play a role of the sorts one\nday. I would love to shoot a movie in nature in general. A movie that is shot\nin the woods for example. Or shoot one of those documentaries, like planet\nearth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What’s your goal for\nthis year?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am moving to Berlin. Well I should have already moved\nthere, but Corona got in the way. So, for now my goal is to stay positive and\nstick out this pandemic. It\u2019s hard for me because I thrive best under stressful\nenvironments with lots of things to do. That is when I am also creatively the\nmost productive. I am definitely a New Yorker at heart. But now I need to find\nself-motivation to keep working on my acting and just be ready when this crisis\nis over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What is your advice for aspiring actors? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just keep at it keep at it keep at it keep at it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, only if you feel that you have got it. There is no\none else who has to tell you that you have it. If you feel it, you\u2019ve got it.\nThe hard thing is figuring out if you feel like you have got it or not. You\nhave to listen to your gut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I think keeping your motivation is important, getting\ntoo fixated can also be harmful. Know the actual, deeper reason for why you\nwant to act. We tend to forget it when we are struggling out there for jobs.\nBut take some time off if you need. If you are struggling, know that it is just\na period. Staying busy with day jobs or other activities is always good. It can\nbe very helpful for your mental health. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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