Meet Christina Rose Yasi | Actor, Comedian, and Writer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Christina Rose Yasi and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Christina Rose, we’d love to hear about how you approach risk and risk-taking
Take the risk, and trust your gut. It gets harder to take risks as we get older and our commitments expand. I’ll do just about anything for a good story. If you can reframe the concept of risk from something scary that could result in failure, into something exciting that will result in a great story, or the opportunity to learn something, the fear of the risk lessens.

I had the opportunity to go to New York City last summer and perform stand-up comedy. This opportunity happened because a New York comedian saw one of my TikToks, and sent me a message saying if I was ever in the city he would put me on a show. At the time I was working at a job that made me absolutely miserable and I thought “Who gets these kinds of opportunities? What’s the worst that could happen?”. I quit my job, bought a plane ticket to New York, and moved away for a month. I met incredible people and performed at the Sunflower Arcade Lounge in the West Village all summer.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
A therapist had me take a test that ranked my top 20 values from what I value the most to value the least, and my number one value was humor. I’ve always loved making people laugh, but I had never thought of humor as something valuable. In a way, this test is what pushed me into comedy. Laughter brings people together in a way nothing else does. My comedy is very anecdotal. The audience is either laughing because they relate to me, or because whatever story I’m telling is bizarre and entertaining. Comedy lets me be absolutely bonkers. It’s taught me that what makes me a strong performer is who I am as a human, and not just who I am as an actor. For a long time, I carried around the narrative that I had to be a blank canvas people could project onto, and it was exhausting. I’m done wasting energy on getting people to like me. It doesn’t matter how many people like you if you don’t like yourself, and you’re not proud of your work. I’m currently writing a one-woman show, and prepping to move to New York. The biggest piece of advice I can give (and the lesson I’m still trying to learn) is to get out of your own way. If you want it, go after it.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I mean, obviously, we would go to the theatre. I’m very biased, but I love The Warehouse Theatre in the West End. Open mic night at Comedy Zone is always a great time too. In my humble opinion, The Anchorage is the best restaurant in town, especially if you do the tasting menu, and if you’re looking for a fabulous bar with the best cocktails Swordfish Cocktail Club is the place to be. Shopping down Main Street would absolutely be on the itinerary, and coffee at A20 would be a must. We’d end the week with a hot yoga class at Soul Yoga, and then brunch at Camp.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I would love to recognize Lindsay Niedringhaus and the entire team at TealHaus for embracing me with open arms and allowing me to work with them as a content writer. I’m also an avid reader, and Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Big Magic fundamentally shifted how I think of myself as an artist and a creative. I think everyone would benefit from reading it.

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