Drama School Dropout

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Sam Phillips. We chat about the weather, being grateful for lockdown, spicy accountants, self tapes, auditions, self tape studios, being farted on, growing up in the industry, finger sucking, Meryl Streep, Catherine Tate, agents drawing on headshots, working on The Crown, being Imelda Staunton’s son-in-law, perfecting the Princess Diana...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Aaron Sidwell. We chat about performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and making the mistake of packing summer clothes, setting life goals at a very young age, the government’s negligence of the arts industries, the stage and screen being linked, dealing with personal challenges on set, working on EastEnders, the difficulties of work...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Jack Byrne. We chat about doing get outs, This Is Where We Get Off, the importance of life experience, gap years, our favourite Shakespeare plays, Nicola Sturgeon, rapping, crying, emotional recall, Jack’s new play Alba, rapping, Scottish politics, instagram follows, disagreeing with lecturers, Scottish actors, traumatising Drama School...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Zachary Ray Sherman. We chat about Scientology, performing in the new play Alba, 90210, money, making theatre accessible, our favourite Shakespeare roles, playing Santa Claus, 90210 drama, actors being influenced into starting acting by an older sibling, working with Kirsten Dunst, sliding doors moments, dreams of being a Beverly Hills...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Kerry Ellis. We chat about being the first ever British actress to play Elphaba, never saying no, not being able to swim, tackling My Fair Lady straight out of Drama School, going through Drama School without mobile phones and social media, covering for Idina Menzel, her new album ‘Kings and Queens’, getting involved in the industry, Ke...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Sanjeev Kohli. We chat about so many actors not being able to drive, unexplored possibilities for Still Game, Sanjeev’s first ever panto, Still Game, losing out on a pant award to Judge Rinder, Fags, Mags and Bags, having a degree in maths, starting out hosting a multi-cultural magazine radio show for BBC Scotland, reporting on gangsta...

Today on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Rock Anthony. We chat about Glee, YouTube tutorials, hurt squirrels, Twitch streaming, Glee drama, being pinned for a Denzel Washington movie, mental health, writing movies, the things that Cory Monteith did for Rock on set, missing friend’s weddings for auditions, self tapes, getting feedback, working with Hillary Swank and Hugh Jackman, s...

Today on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Daniella De Jesús. We chat about reconnecting with the reasons we want to do what we do, playwriting, Grad School, being asked to clean the floors and change bedding in Drama School, knowing your worth, auditioning for Orange Is The New Black a month after graduating, the pressures of being on Orange, syphoning your passion for TV shows int...

Today on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, William Rush. We chat about taking a step back, mental health, getting up to no good in acting classes, having Suranne Jones play your stage mum, auditioning for Waterloo Road at fourteen, playing such a monumental character at such a young age, toxic masculinity, Wolf of Wall Street, never giving up, being a “pick me bitch”, living in LA,...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Callum Kerr. We chat about moving from Scotland to Nashville, Callum’s music, auditioning for Skins, the importance of having working lecturers, doing tours of schools, terrible acting classes, working on Hollyoaks, guns, working in America, getting to play a villain, Matthew McConaughey, being number one on a call sheet, shows getting...

This week on Drama School Dropout it's my birthday! And I am joined by the amazing, Lindsay Pearce. We chat about Glee, slime tutorials, the community that surrounded Glee, online friends, Wicked, social media, online trolling, if it’s hard to be an artist, theatre being a team sport, bragging versus celebrating your successes, auditioning for her first Broadway show and getting the lead role,...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Bobby Johnson. We chat about the Bad Education reboot, dad’s reactions to our acting, being influenced by The Green Mile, Netflix recommendations, Bobby’s first role playing a lifeguard, being able to play, GCSE Drama, yet another problematic school drama piece, studying at Arts Ed during the pandemic, stage names, working with the OG B...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Shan Ako. We chat about the weather, Shan’s first gig in a Mowtown show, growing up in a musical family, getting a masters in psychology, studying at the Brit School, auditioning for Hamilton before starring in Les Mis, Hamilton, being more empathetic towards performers, playing dream roles, performing in boiling hot temperatures, Todri...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by Scottish acting royalty, Jonathan Watson. We chat about Only An Excuse’s legacy, life after COVID, Two Doors Down, hometown heroes, Drama Schools being accessible, getting started in Scotland, studying at RSAMD, being part of the first ever drama programme filmed in colour for BBC Scotland, Play Pie and a Pint, the origins of Only An Excuse, getting...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Louisa Clein. We chat about the unemployed times as an actor, the creativity lockdown inspired, problematic primary school plays, funerals, Louisa’s first big audition after Drama School, comparing Glasgow to Hollywood, sliding doors moments, going to Drama School with Tom Hardy and Russell Brand, the stuff drama lecturers say, playing...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Zebb Dempster. We chat about cold holidays, doing plays on Zoom, house party, hoping that Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation is an April Fool’s joke, doing Shakespeare plays at six years old, the importance of research, auditioning for Drama School, rehearsing audition pieces for nine months, rejection becoming personal, auditioning for Wate...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Kimberly Hart-Simpson. We chat about my list, Reality TV, Celebs Go Dating, being an actor on Reality TV, Rula Lenska and George Galloway, Free Willy, Richard Hillman, watching Eurotrash in secret, the ten year audition process to get on Coronation Street, stopping acting, Russell T. Davies, climate change, getting high on stage, Kathy...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Adam Abbou. We chat about Los Angeles, working in Bulgaria, starring in the new series of Waterloo Road, social media, playing Billy Elliot, auditioning for Matilda on the West End, self tape tips, having to wait to hear if you got the role over Christmas, gifts from you to you, ignored DMs, and the future of Waterloo Road. Submit your...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by Scottish acting royalty, Leah MacRae. We chat about her absolutely brilliant tour, producing shows, promoting nightclubs, Susan Nickson, my audition with Jonny McKnight, finding your confidence, tough primary school experiences, supporting local independent theatre, the pressures of lockdown, every actor in regional dramas being a millionaire, starr...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Vincent Jerome. We chat about Costco cake, tackling gritty subjects on TV today, the political undertones of this new series of Waterloo Road, favourite actors, Drama School being for the rich, sniffing bums during playback theatre classes, fantasy Shakespeare casts, eating strawberry lube, bingeing vs watching weekly, a Lewis Capaldi j...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the iconic, Daniela Ruah. We chat about parents, networking, accidentally majoring in dance, the nothingness, being the voice of the Portuguese Merida, Dance Moms, NCIS LA, meeting fans at ComicCons, my impending sense of doom regarding growing old, giving yourself a triathlon for your 40th birthday, dogs shitting on computers, police brutality and...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the iconic, Alicia Forde. We chat about the love for acting, keeping the Waterloo Road secret, representation, tackling serious storylines, ten year school reunions, controversial theatre opinions, blagging our way through Drama School, going to Mountview, throat singing Lady GaGa, being a BTEC Drake in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and of course, This...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by my first ever stage mum, Tanya MacDonald. We chat about teaching drama in a secondary school, gratitude for our parents, This Is Where We Get Off, the show’s cast, thespians, training to be an RE teacher, working while you’re studying, dialogue that’s hard to learn, drunken Graded Unit confessions, Julie Walters, our favourite comedy sketches, break...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Joel Montague. We chat about fans thinking they have ownership of people’s private lives, trying to make waves in the industry, Dance Moms, perceived nepotism, being a bumblebee, being bribed with fruit pastilles, the King’s Chest, breaking into Drama School, getting big roles, CV’s and headshots at Showcase, Gemma Collins, working at Ha...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing John McCrea. We chat about singing his first solo in school, how we both got into acting, self tapes, smoking behind Drama School, Ben Mitchell going from camp to gangster, your loved ones watching you act, soaps up and down the country, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, getting fired from a cruise ship, the very first workshops for Jamie...