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| IaBou Windimere is an actress and Independent Film Artist in West Chester Ohio with POKKET Productions. IaBou is also a Costume Designer under Galatica Rags. Her true passion is in the art of creating a character, whether while writing, directing, or acting. IaBou believes in thinking of the before and after of a scene because life is always about where you came from and where you are headed... even if the character is not yet aware. During her childhood, IaBou found herself creating pretend commercials with everything item she found. She often says her love of exploring characters stems from hours of TV and movie watching during the countless times she was sick as a child. Due to an undiagnosed rare sleeping disorder, IaBou's years as a child left her constantly sick, sleepy, and extremely shy. Thus spending time to herself, she wrote stories and developed her imagination till her parents enrolled her in a summer acting camp, with The Melon Patch Players in Leesburg, Florida, which she says they always regretted. Discovering the joy of entertaining others, IaBou grew a passion for making those around her smile, laugh, cry, and feel. IaBou Windimere's first true test of her acting ability was on stage in high school, when multiple actors stopped showing up to practice. This left IaBou to play all three witches in MacBeth; A role in which her mother proclaimed she did not recognize her Daughter on stage till half way through the performance. IaBou often says, "Everyone says to me, 'aren't they all three on stage at the same time?' I look at them and go 'that's why it was a challenge' " She remembers a High School teacher describing IaBou to her parents as "always in costume," since IaBou's self expression has been her loudest personal character trait. That same teacher became the 1st person to read IaBou's 1st play "Theories of Chaos" which was submitted for extra credit. She fondly recalls him telling her, "where's more like this? This is beyond your years. I want more!" His primary focus being a poetic monologue in the play entitled, "The Devil Wore White". IaBou hid the play for years fearing that someone might have thought she lost her mind if they read it. IaBou saw the play as a release of characters and questions which developed in her head as a result of fears from her brothers involvement in the gulf war, and a death of a family member whom had witnessed nuclear weapons testing resulting in multiple cancers. Achieving a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Central Florida, IaBou started to lessen the amount of writing she did and focus more on costuming as a form of character exploration. With her torturous passion to be an actress still looming in the back of her mind, IaBou studied Image development and character building at The Maile School in Orlando Fl till she moved to Ohio to further her career as an Engineer. Moving to Ohio, IaBou continued to take acting classes with a stronger passion to be a real Actress. After a year of serious exploration of acting she was chosen to represent her agent in Dallas Texas to compete in a talent Expo with thousands of other actors, where she won Best Female Monologue. IaBou remembers that moment as a wake up call that she was actually good at something despite any odds. "I start talking to the rest of the people at the table to cheer them up and while Im talking they call my name. I didn't expect to win anything. " After cancelled flight after canceled flight she arrived to Perform her monologue moments before judging was closed. Even passing the timed limit the judges begged to let her continue the monologue. IaBou struggled with keeping up her job and acting until an extreme illness led her on a discovery of a having had both a rare blood disorder and Hypersomnia (also known as Non-Rem Narcolepsy). IaBou often regrets not knowing sooner as she remembers using half a bottle of makeup to cover bruises when she went to compete at the Talent Expo in Dallas. IaBou was able to learn how to function along with her disorder, and says she learned to accept it like that "obnoxious friend that you can't live without". she often says "I feel more proud of living with it, than embarrassed of the side effects". "it's the things that cause the most pain and frustration that make any character, and as an actor you seldom forget that you're a character too" IaBou often looks back at the last 5 years and sees them as the most successful years of her life. "I hated moving to Cincinnati, but it's where I found who I was, and who I was supposed to become." "you're exhausted and emotionally drained after a day of filming, and you come up the hill and over the river, and every time that stupid CINCI' skyline gives you this warm fuzzy" The independent film culture in Cincinnati is what IaBou loves more than anything about the city. "Everyone you know has a script, and everyone has a project, and everyone needs extras and Everyone sacrifices everything for the finished project", that's what IaBou Says she could never leave behind. knowing someday she'll feel the need to move on, she swears her heart will always need that independent culture of artists to be fulfilled. "nobody here has money, or trailers, or coffee runners, but there's always a friend on set that has been in ten projects with you that will hand you a drink before you have to ask. We all scratch each others backs, and it's not a success unless everyone in the cast has had a break down.. I guess the last part isn't that much different than LA or NY." IaBou was bitten by the film making bug after she moved to CINCI. She says " I have great pride in the fact that people know I take their suggestions literally. Someone says 'wouldn't it be funny' and then I say 'don't think I won't ' then I scribble something on the script and say 'Matt, we're going to kill you off one more time' ". IaBou found her calling in creating stories about people larger than life. Since as a sick child she always dreamed about being able to do anything. She started writing again when she found an old play in her bookshelf, and now she can't stop. "Some body steels an light up animated deer from our yard a Christmas and a week later it's a screenplay". Although IaBou's primary focus is creating characters, she loves to bring people into projects, find something they are good at, and make them the project expert for that specialty. "I've seen people become who they are and I'm glad I could help them see how awesome they are". She loves to return favors for others even when it pushes back her own project's timelines ACTOR's Website |