https://www.elenamuslar.com/essence daily 1.0 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1663639653328-6ZOJZ509CILW25FIHMTW/70D6BB74-E5CF-4D2D-BCDB-EFFE885620BD.JPEG CREATIVE ESSENCE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1732758807435-5JVUQFGB9PWXD6NW85PX/IMG_1441+2.JPG CREATIVE ESSENCE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1732759690178-DV7TNG2J2NBNQUMRFEE5/Bravo_Life-2022-166.jpg CREATIVE ESSENCE https://www.elenamuslar.com/professional daily 0.75 2025-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1565805535273-GY98IDYJY58FAHA61GXD/elena06.JPG PROFESSIONAL BIO Extended Bio ELENA MARIE MUSLAR (@elenamariemuse) is a bicoastal arts executive, enterprising educator, and executive coach dedicated to the collective cultural and economic progress of pre-professionals and working professionals navigating careers towards, in, around, or beyond arts, culture, and entertainment. She is the Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of Confide Creative, a career coaching and leadership consulting practice for ambitious creative professionals and serves as the Managing Director of The Career Center at the Entertainment Community Fund, formerly known as The Actors’ Fund. Elena’s personal-meets-professional coaching philosophy is rooted in three pillars: workforce equity, racial justice, and radical self-care. Her organizational clients include nationally-recognized arts organizations, major entertainment companies, higher education institutions, culturally-intentional community collectives. Previously, Elena held leadership roles at Fractured Atlas, a national arts service organization providing fiscal sponsorship for artists, and Loyola Marymount University, where she was the go-to career coach for thousands of undergraduate and graduate students in the School of Film and Television and College of Communication and Fine Arts; and the first recipient of the Enrollment Management Division Creativity & Innovation Award. After a decade of advocacy for the importance of undergraduate exposure to arts administration and career management, during her time as a professor at LMU, Elena launched and taught the first ever cross-departmental course between Dance, Theatre, Music, and Studio Arts, Introduction to Business in the Arts. She has also guest lectured at USC, NYU, UCLA, CSULB, East LA College, University of Wyoming, and more. After her getting her start in the arts through Towne Street Theatre as a kid, which set the foundation and inspiration for her creative career, Elena was recognized by TST in 2018 as a Next Gen Honoree. In 2019, the County of Los Angeles honored Elena, a native of South Central Los Angeles for her leadership in the arts & creative economy, commitment to cultural equity & inclusion, and dedication to community affairs & civic pride. With an extensive background in arts and culture presenting along with professional development events producing for creatives, Elena is a sought-after speaker, occasional commercial model, enthusiastic poetic wordsmith, and member of the Audio Publishers Association developing her next creative chapter as an audiobook narrator. In her spare time, she enjoys seeing theatre, singing joyfully, sipping tea, and playing tennis or chess. Elena is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute and UCLArts & Healing Social Emotional Arts Facilitator Program. She earned her MFA in Theatre Management & Creative Producing from CalArts and BA in Theatre Arts (with concentrations in Dance, African-American Studies, and Education) from LMU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1564973697579-UI03TWHTIMA7W1J97PQ7/IMG_3451.JPG PROFESSIONAL BIO Brief Bio ELENA MARIE MUSLAR (@elenamariemuse) is a bicoastal arts executive, enterprising educator, and executive coach dedicated to the collective cultural and economic progress of professionals of every level navigating careers towards, in, around, or beyond arts, culture, and entertainment. She is the Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of Confide Creative, a coaching and consulting practice for creative leaders and legacy builders. Additionally, Elena serves as the Managing Director of The Career Center at the Entertainment Community Fund, formerly known as The Actors’ Fund. She previously held leadership roles at Fractured Atlas, overseeing the fiscal sponsorship program for artists, and Loyola Marymount University, where she coached and taught thousands of students to successfully launch their career dreams into reality throughout the creative economy (and was the first recipient of the Enrollment Management Division Creativity & Innovation Award). She has also guest lectured at USC, NYU, UCLA, CSULB, East LA College, University of Wyoming, and more. In 2018, she was recognized as a Towne Street Theatre Next Gen Honoree after getting her start in the arts there at age 8 which set the foundation and inspiration for her creative career. In 2019, the County of Los Angeles honored Elena, a native of South Central Los Angeles, for her leadership in the arts & creative economy, commitment to cultural equity & inclusion, and dedication to community affairs & civic pride. A sought-after speaker, occasional model, and enthusiastic poetic wordsmith who is diving into audiobook narration next, Elena is a UCLArts & Healing certified Social Emotional Arts Facilitator, UC Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute graduate, and holds an MFA in Theatre Management & Creative Producing from CalArts and a BA in Theatre Arts (with concentrations in Dance, African-American Studies, and Education) from LMU. https://www.elenamuslar.com/model daily 0.75 2025-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1732760454987-356Z1XDR07RUA7J648BQ/IMG_2670+2.jpg COMMERCIAL MODELING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1732762713795-C6AZGCYMYIET9C4RCQYO/IMG_9601+2.JPG COMMERCIAL MODELING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1663638127744-YLTKZE755DST6EGR4DTT/em-001_webuse.jpg COMMERCIAL MODELING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1732762026425-FAFNSPIOBOW3NPYEDF0D/IMG_2605+2.JPG COMMERCIAL MODELING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1663638314802-SIXXJYWH7BNUPNB4ZZXV/IMG_0593.JPG COMMERCIAL MODELING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1663640604230-UMJYDV3FBPFCMYGR46TF/IMG_9241.JPG COMMERCIAL MODELING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1732762148839-RH4P3K4GM13D3WZCEZMO/IMG_8706+2.JPG COMMERCIAL MODELING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1732762123990-OGQTUJR5BACPGC83L9AU/img_20190329_0046.JPG COMMERCIAL MODELING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1732761702383-59GAE6VMYSMKV1H2H1BL/IMG_4425.JPG COMMERCIAL MODELING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1732762874590-AJIGNO9HSHPILQI9HIVG/IMG_0850+2.JPG COMMERCIAL MODELING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1732761956383-VNH0E7F37IY5PWQ28IHY/EM-Headshot2.jpg COMMERCIAL MODELING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1732762050758-AD3V7Q9OQW3TG3W7IFHS/kpr_1866c.JPG COMMERCIAL MODELING https://www.elenamuslar.com/new-page daily 0.75 2021-02-28 https://www.elenamuslar.com/audiobooknarrator daily 0.75 2024-12-22 https://www.elenamuslar.com/speaker daily 0.75 2025-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/961eafbe-3119-428f-a6a9-e02803a37379/IMG_2673.jpg PUBLIC SPEAKING - Podcasts + Publications Empowered Artist Collective | Redefining Support for Artists with Elena Muslar Howlround | After The Essay (IG Series) - Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Arts Management Inside The Dancers Studio| NCC Akron - Money, Mindset, and Motivation: Where Artist Meets Enterprise; Elena Muslar Kiss My Aesthetic| MKW Creative Co. - Creative Career Mindset with Elena Muslar Dirty Girl | WhoHaha - Out of the Office to Dismantle Systemic Racism Cultura Consciousness- Live from Museum Educators of Southern California Annual Institute with Elena Muslar *For Publications visit Confide Creative https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/4e179323-4a78-4aa1-9a6d-32c83c65d3e9/IMG_0040.JPG PUBLIC SPEAKING - Keynotes + Panels Arts Administrators of Color (Panelist) Arts for LA: Building The Next Los Angeles - Inspiring Projects from Other Cities (LA Convergence Pecha Kucha Speaker) Bishop Conaty High School Alumni Day (Keynote Speaker) Center Theatre Group: Workforce Development Mix & Mingle (Keynote Speaker); Career Advocacy & Personal Manifestos | Working in Theatre (Panelist) Global Leaders Institute for Arts Innovation: Who You Are Before What You Do: Culture-First Organizations (Panelist) Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture Arts Intern Summit (Keynote Speaker) Los Angeles County Library: Career Advice For Recent Grads (Panelist) Las Fotos Project: 4th Annual Foto Awards (Moderator) National Arts Marketing Project Conference (Panelist) National Center for Choreography - Akron (NCCAkron) Creative Administration Research (CAR) Summit Convening Closing Plenary (Moderator) 100+ Professional Development Workshops (Facilitator) Select Partners List at Confide Creative *Full List Available Upon Request https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/0bc85270-f7a3-46b1-bf1e-798563c16b07/IMG_1937.JPG PUBLIC SPEAKING - Hosting + Producing Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles - Professional Development & Networking (Host & Producer for 10+ Events) Loyola Marymount University - Arts & Entertainment Professional Development & Networking (Host & Producer for 50+ Events) Music Center: Dance DTLA (Emcee) Skirball Cultural Center - March Forth: Evening of Spoken Word (Creator, 3x Host, & Producer) Bright Now Beyond by Daniel Alexander Jones and Bobby Halvorson directed by Daniel Alexander Jones (Workshop Producer) The Real James Bond Was Dominican by Christopher Rivas directed by Daniel Banks (Consulting Producer) The Last Barnstorm by Luis Vega directed by Deena Selenow (Staged Reading Producer) *Full List Available Upon Request https://www.elenamuslar.com/poet daily 0.75 2024-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1df8ec39-ead8-4f9f-ae9a-399beba069fa/IMG_0867.JPG POETIC LIBERATION - For a long time… I’ve written poems and dipped my modernized quill into different forms of creative journaling, but mainly just for me. Every once in a while I’d get on a stage full of nerves And dabble in the electric joy of sharing my words through spoken artistry. But life is too short to play small and I’m so ready to set my creative voice free. I figured 2025 is as good a time as any to finally start publishing my poetry. So every time I get a poem published I will share it here. Who knows, maybe one day it’ll become my own beautiful poetic anthology or journal framework for creative wellbeing. https://www.elenamuslar.com/personal daily 0.75 2025-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/30b769d3-bb1f-4609-a91a-ceeefd2ad7d7/0m8a3372.JPG PERSONAL BIO - The Multidisciplinary Artist of Life E’LENA MARIE MUSE (emphasis on the long “E” and you’ll say my first name right) is lover of slow mornings, cultural exchanges, fresh air, and embodied experiences. As care-centered human being practicing unsubscribing from overdoing, she embraces a live-well first, work-to-live-fuller second, mentality. Elena is a responsible daughter, empathic friend, and chosen auntie to many, who grew up fast, yet focused, in South Central Los Angeles. She is currently learning more about her Belizean heritage and studying Italian because she enjoys expanding her worldview and discovering new ways to express herself. Motivated by her involvement in different facets of the arts during her youth, Elena’s multidisciplinary creative practices include poetry, audiobook narration, and the occasional musing into modeling or performing as unique opportunities arise and align. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/1564976956135-AQY1CV8KOZYPFA4F2OQV/IMG_3592.JPG PERSONAL BIO - The Optimized Leader & Ongoing Learner Elena also holds space as an educator, facilitator, and strategic consultant (due to her combined 15 years of experience in arts & culture presenting, community engagement, career services, higher education, and talent development) for forward thinking teams ready to elevate or integrate creative approaches into their work culture, project management, equity frameworks, or leadership development. She holds an MFA in Management and Creative Producing from CalArts and a BA from LMU where studies focused on Theater, Dance, African American Studies, and Education. Inspired by the tenacity of professionals in performing arts and entertainment, Elena serves as the Managing Director of The Career Center at The Entertainment Community Fund (formerly the Actors Fund) where she currently leads a passionate team of career counselors and creative workforce development specialists nationally, in addition to serving on the board of the International Organization for the Transition of Professional Dancers (IOTPD). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/65a66aef-0302-4312-abcf-c60d23701f1c/Elenacontestwinner_LosAngeles_082020-177.jpg PERSONAL BIO - The Racer Turned Riser Growing up running long-distance track and cross-country, Elena had visions of becoming a coach. Now she runs the distance as an exuberant Executive Coach and CEO at Confide Creative with her inspiring clients who venture from all walks of life ready to sprint, pace, or stride turning their exercised skillsets into creative superpowers. In her coaching practice, she uses a wide variety of intermodal techniques including creative writing, somatic movement, and vocal amplification to help her clients unearth or connect to their creativity as they ascend to new heights at the intersection of their personal-meets-professional development. https://www.elenamuslar.com/letscreate daily 0.75 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/56330bac-3b2a-485c-b32a-b6b6a923fc65/EMM+logo+slim.png CONNECT & CREATE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d85056d482e995391309a2/910369a4-5a29-43aa-a462-67d55e682d60/Bravo_Life-2022-160.jpg CONNECT & CREATE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.elenamuslar.com/new-products daily 0.75 2021-02-28