Drama School Dropout

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Stephen Manas! We chat about Ted Lasso, moving to LA, starting out as a ski double, accidentally becoming a comedian, working with rude actors, not knowing Jason Sudekis, overcoming a language barrier, favourite swear words, working with Hannah Waddingham and Jason Sudekis, Ted Lasso being the perfect first job, getting twenty-one Emmy...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Olly Rhodes! We chat about Waterloo Road, settling into unemployment, begging to be in the new Hunger Games, almost not picking Drama as a GCSE, staying in practice, how tragedy can catapult something into worldwide fame, people going too far in an acting class, two handers with Zak Sutcliffe, Shakespeare, working with Jason Manford, Wa...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Laine MacNeil! We chat about Diary of a Wimpy Kid, scholastic book fairs, working harder, finally having a break, learning lines, taxes, working as a child, seeing the Patty Farrell illustration for the first time, Andrew Scott, Fleabag, improvising, working on comedy sets, hitting a guide dog in the face with a condom, when a co-star m...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Ross Jamieson! We chat about missing the TikTok bandwagon, growing up in the prime YouTube era, being famous on Club Penguin, our first ever brand deals, having to decide between a career in musical theatre or politics, drinking straight from gravy boats, accidentally meeting a very famous Tory politician’s parents, Peter Pan, Macbeth,...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Nicholas Marshall! We chat about being part of The Scottish Graduate’s Showcase, working for TikTok, shampoo, dreams of becoming the next Doctor Who, sticker books, our favourite jokes from Still Game, the state of arts education, being bad at going to the theatre, forgetting props, preparing to enter the industry, realising you still h...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Dionne Frati! We chat about getting robbed, possibly finally getting to see Catherine Tate in person, being the busiest actress in Scotland, working under pressure, making theatre more accessible, problematic tea towels, working at The Barras, Singin’ I’m No A Billy She’s A Tim, ending up in kink clubs, accidentally sending OnlyFans vid...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, David Fynn! We chat about The Inbetweeners, Am I Being Unreasonable, living in the US, calling teachers by their first names, free education in Scotland, working with Daisy May Cooper, improv, cults, catfishes, pervert castmates, hoping to work with Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, and weird DM’s. Submit your story for Stage Right or Stage Sh...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Caleb Castille! We chat about NCIS LA, growing up in an American College Football family dynasty, modelling, that Michael Caine acting masterclass on YouTube, the craziest beginning of a career, manifestation, the power of asking, getting fired off of a pilot, over protective mothers, pausing production, portraying a police officer duri...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Constance Shulman! We chat about Orange Is The New Black, the culture of streaming, Blockbuster, growing up in Tennessee, being a beauty school dropout, moving to New York City, getting kicked out of Drama School, being in the original cast of Steel Magnolias, meeting Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Dolly Parton and Elizabeth Taylor, coming...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Jake Davies! We chat about Screw, Jake’s one-man Steve Irvine show, JLS condoms, other artistic paths, making sacrifices, playing JLS in nappies, TikTok, still not seeing Game of Thrones, Martin Compston, Alex Lawther, filming during the height of the pandemic, living in Glasgow, working with Dame Judi Dench, Shakespeare inspired porn a...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Lucian Burlingame! We chat about The Naked Neds, the new normal, Peaky Blinders, age gaps, acting techniques, Cillian Murphy, binge watching, the return of Gavin and Stacey, Outnumbered and Squid Game, terrible acting CV’s, preparing for the full monty, on-stage nudity, partnering with Cahonas Scotland, learning how to check our balls,...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Jordan Monks! We chat about doing three shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, forgetting lines, zoom Drama School, Jordan’s journey into acting, starting out as a welder and then moving on to be a civil engineer, character names, student loans, spotlight fees, learning to take care of yourself, preparing to do the full monty, vaping o...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Chris Rankin! We chat about Harry Potter, the northern lights, Chelsea Lee Art, social media hate, having a £15,000 budget for a school show, our GCSE drama teacher, working with the best British actors on Potter, being a real life prefect and going on to play one of the most famous prefects, playing strip poker on stage and the joys of...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Hunter Emery! We chat about Orange Is The New Black, the SAG strike, parenting, plan B’s, OnlyFans, transitioning from varsity wrestling and baseball to acting, getting naked in class and on screen, holding on to your artistic integrity, letting go of egos, getting sober, Philip Seymour Hoffman, lessons learnt on the Orange Is The New B...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Aidan Curley! We chat about our new show: The Naked Neds, the general election, early morning rehearsals, getting stuck behind the orange walk, playing Jack Frost, joining the Scottish Youth Theatre, being an actor with dyslexia, dreams of being a porn star, traumatising Shakespeare lecturers, a lecturer that made a student shave his he...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Medalion Rahimi! We chat about NCIS: LA, the SAG strike, North West, wishing to be a nepo baby, having our own reality shows, my love of problematic tea towels, the differences between British and American theatre etiquette, the new twists of classic shows, licking floors and spitting in people’s mouths, learning to have a thick skin, j...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Ben Kay! We chat about This Is Where We Get Off, cutting your hair for a part, playing a dodo bird, Zoom Drama School, barefoot actors, Cillian Murphy, Doctor Who, Phoenix Nights, self taping in a sauna in Portugal, that incident with the guide dog, stealing, touring mishaps, fictional friends, mandatory weigh-ins at Drama School, inapp...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, John Stuart! We chat about Play, Pie and a Pint, Dirty Water, This Is Where We Get Off, creating independent theatres, discovering you’re the one who’s got to get naked in the show mid rehearsal, John’s love of beer, living with the same characters for ten years, script writing, fake agents, page three, producing and 200 episodes of Dra...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Will Gibson! We chat about Saltburn, moving to London, making Barry Keoghan break character, culture differences between the North and South, Greggs, dry humping at Drama School, being told no, learning to act for screen, being a dyslexic actor, the Saltburn audition process, how Will took his mum to the Saltburn premiere, improvising o...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Marshall Williams! We chat about Glee, trying out for Canadian Idol, walk through interactive zoos, doing scenes in the mall, auditioning and getting cast in one of the biggest TV shows in the world, acting classes, working with Finneas, the Glee documentary, bad behaviour on the Glee set, stealing, culture differences when it comes to...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Max Ainsworth! We chat about G’wed, being mistaken for Paddy the Baddy, working on Hollyoaks, hating GCSE Drama, filming G’wed whilst at university, how TV shows make penis pictures, Max’s now immortal link to chicken dippers, joy riding on golf caddies, dodgy agents, Stephen Graham, Nike 95s, holding umbrellas, crashing golf carts, Lau...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Ben Robert Cunningham! We chat about being on tour, the pandemic, problematic tea towels, university swans, very famous lessons learnt, ponds next to student accommodation, knowing everyone, The Collie’s Shed, Ben’s close connection to Baby Reindeer, shoplifting, working with famous actors who spit, method acting, snogging your on stage...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Joel Harper-Jackson! We chat about burnout, not giving a shit,  full circle moments, the current state of performing arts education, Macbeth’s witches being strippers, COCK, understudying Taron Egerton and Jonathan Bailey and eventually replacing Taron, theatre etiquette, getting the call to take over from Taron Egerton on April Fool’s...

This week on Drama School Dropout it's my birthday and I am joined by the amazing, Jason Ritter! We chat about Raise Your Voice, the SAG AFTRA strike, being registered to vote, working with a seventeen year old Jack Black, being roommates with Simon Helberg whilst studying at NYU, the US remake of Gavin and Stacey, preparing to be ignored, studying at RADA, Hilary Duff, religious activists trying...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Jacob Fisher. We chat about Nigel Farage in the jungle, the GCSE drama hierarchy, playing villains, Drama School speed dating, gym life, Newsies, meeting Abby Lee Miller, relearning how to tap on Anything Goes and then auditioning for Newsies, gargling TCP, why being a Newsie meant so much to Jacob, performing on the Royal Variety Show,...