#Byop: Be Your Own Producer

Written by Broadway actress and award-winning indie film and music producer Ashley Kate Adams, #BYOP: Grief and Productivity for the Artist guides artists through loss, creative transformation, and healing.
In her second book, Adams shares that through grief, artists might find themselves more awake and creating more authentically than ever before. In this memoir-fueled, how-to guide filled with personal stories of loss and transformation, both in the entertainment industry and in her own life, she seeks to assist creatives through the most challenging times of their lives by focusing on the duality of creativity.
Through interviews, poems, and lyrics, she also celebrates the productivity of artistry when people dare to create through their sorrow and pain. Adams believes that grief allows the opportunity for true realignment and gives artists the understanding to live more boldly than ever before.

Ashley Kate Adams is an award-winning actress, producer, educator, and best-selling author who made her Broadway debut at twenty-three in the Tony Award-winning revival of La Cage Aux Folles. Her first book #BYOP: Be Your Own Producer debuted as the number one book in the Performing Arts Industry category. On screen, she appeared in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Royal Pains, Pitching Tents, and Love (for which she won Best Actress 2018 NYTF). Her voice work is featured in True Detective, Logan Lucky, and Hillbilly Elegy. Through her production company, AKA Studio Productions, her work has been screened at 250+ film festivals including the LA Film Festival. She is the cofounder of the billboard-charting No Reverse Records based in New York City and Jackson, Tennessee, where she is also the cofounder of the Vintage Makers Music & Arts Festival and a proud music and entertainment professor at the University of Memphis, Lambuth.