Talking With - Vocal Media Interviews Dana Lyn Baron about Betty & Mary

Dana Lyn Baron
Nov 16
2 min read

Updated: 4 days ago

Vocal Media Interview Spotlight - Dana Lyn Baron on Making Betty & Mary: The Actors Prepare

Smiling woman in an elegant red dress with a patterned waistband, holding a necklace. Brown backdrop highlights her cheerful mood. — Dana Lyn Baron (photo by James DiPietro)

In a new interview with Vocal Media, Dana Lyn Baron speaks candidly about her experience creating and performing in the short film Betty & Mary: The Actors Prepare. The conversation explores her writing process, her character choices, and the challenges and joys of building a story about ambition, vulnerability, and reinvention.

Creating Characters with Urgency and Depth

Baron traces Betty’s origins to a deep, longtime pull toward powerful, complicated women in dramatic literature. She describes Betty and Mary not as constructions, but as figures who stepped forward with their own needs, flaws, and momentum, shaping the script through intuition rather than design. The interview reveals how that character-first process allowed the film to grow into a layered mix of humor, ambition, and emotional honesty that reflects Baron’s voice at its most deliberate and alive.

“Once Betty took shape, Mary followed quickly as her foil and her mirror. I did not engineer them so much as witness them and try to keep up.”

These moments with Baron make it clear that Betty & Mary exists because she's pushing herself to tell stories that feel honest, risky, and deeply human. Baron speaks about these characters with the kind of ownership that comes from living with them, not just writing them, and that energy comes through in every frame of the film. Her commitment to creating space for complicated women is not abstract theory, it is the engine of her work. The conversation leaves you with the sense that Dana Lyn Baron is building something bigger than a single short; she is building a unique & wonderful world shaped by voice, vision, and unapologetic creative intent.