What happens when we stop dreaming? Do we lose more than imagination? Do we lose our voice, our future?

In this powerful conversation, award-winning actress and producer Ariana Lebron reveals how creativity didn’t just shape her career, it saved her. Once a selectively mute child navigating trauma, she found her voice through theatre and transformed it into a life of storytelling across stage and screen.

From art as healing to art as community, from motherhood to multicultural expression, this is a story about why dreaming isn’t optional - it’s essential; because when artists dare to imagine, they don’t just change their own lives… they help us all see what’s possible.

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About the Host:

Lucy Colgan is a seasoned creative leader, educator and podcast host with nearly two decades of experience in the arts and education. She holds a PGCE in Drama & Performing Arts and a Professional Diploma in Dance from Trinity Laban, and has worked as a freelance artist, project manager, and director across the creative sector.

She launched The Wilderness of Creativity in 2024 and invites listeners to explore what it really means to 'take the road less travelled', combining vulnerability, practical insight and inspirational storytelling.

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Ariana Lebrón was born in Dominican Republic to a Domincan mother and Puerto Rican father. This meant she would live most of her childhood between both Caribbean Islands and learn to appreciate the love for a life full of culture and arts. From a very young age Ariana started exploring stage performances in school plays and theatre groups, which made her fell in love with the performing arts. It was not much later in life that she landed the opportunity to attend London's prestigious Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.