Today we’d like to introduce you to Rochelle McRyans.
Hi Rochelle, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Actress, Writer, Producer, Director, Rapper, Poet, founder and CEO of It’s a Really Rochelle Production LLC, my production company that I started last year of October and made it official in August of this year. I always had a passion for the show business and wanted to be on Disney Channel or Nickelodeon like every child does. I just didn’t want to be an audience, fan or critic but on the screen acting and interacting with the characters even if that meant I could play the best friend, the girl next door, or the new girl at school.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Starting any business no matter if it’s acting or whatever isn’t a smooth road for nobody but a bumpy one in that matter, I have two businesses first, my brand as an actress and launching my own production company. Creating my own opportunities even if nobody would give them to me is a struggle but it’s all worth it at the end because hard work and dedication pays off.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I am an independent filmmaker and content creator, what I am best known for is one of my short films that I wrote, directed, and produced called Love is it is about this young woman named Yashia Washington who writes a letter to her boyfriend’s spirit Jason Montgomery who was a U.S Marine but died in the war in Saudi Arabia where he was drafted and she was devastated. I am very proud of writing something so deep that it would make you cry and serving the characters purpose and I definitely understood that assignment and they had plans for the rest of their lives together but it couldn’t because Jason passed away and I knew what Yashia’s overall and scene objective was in that six minute film.
Can you tell us more about what you were like growing up?
Anybody who knows me back in Chicago where I was born and raised especially in School knew me as the funny, sweet, and nice girl but also the hardworking and committed student. I graduated High School with a 3.5 grade point average which is an A- like any black child, I grew up around abuse and mistreatment, I wasn’t loved or respect unless I was a convenience for someone, in the year 2016 and 2017 I was homeless as a teenager but that’s why I moved Atlanta Georgia in August of 2017 to have a better life and to pursue in my career and met my husband and soulmate out here.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://itsareallyrochelleproductionll.com/
- Instagram: @reallymcryans
- Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCzXf2fbKzdv9gCm8vExIjMQ
