Drama School Dropout

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Paul Bazely. We chat about filming in Belgrade, sending an audition up into smoke, our manifestations for 2023, growing up in South East London, being from a working class background, studying Drama at Manchester Met, being rebellious, not paying for Drama School, tutors wandering around in kilts, undermining the ensemble, auditioning fo...

It's the final Drama School Dropout of 2022 and I am joined by the amazing Gabrielle Monica Hughes. I open up about anxiety and we chat about the end of the second year of Drama School Dropout, the impact of Glee, the prospect of bragging, networking, showcases, Drama School Incest, break ups, half arsed auditions, getting her first big job on Two Doors Down, having the press write articles about...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Vanessa Hehir. We chat about the thought of giving up acting, joining Coronation Street, lucky cats, being a covid back up, playing Mary twice, our issues with Drama School, bad agents, playing Jimmy Saville, killing family members off, orgasming over clothes, working on Waterloo Road, bribing producers with cake, bullying and formal com...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Jared Garfield. We chat about the famed forty degree day, Scottish Independence, transitioning to a post covid way of navigating the industry, self taping, expectations of the industry, performing Shakespeare at Windsor Castle, studying at ArtsEd, going too far in a class exercise, working on The Unreturning with Frantic Assembly, singin...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Kelly Schumann. We chat about growing up as a dancer, the Bridgerton Musical, coping with people using your intellectual property, going to Drama School in New York City, a Drama School sitcom, getting ghosted, the Yes/No button, getting the job on Superstore, networking tips, driving from day jobs to dream jobs, a possible Superstore re...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Brian Thomas Smith. We chat about Ingram’s dreams of LA, the world of self tapes, losing and gaining jobs because of COVID, winning best actor in High School, throwing great parties, illegal drinking, letting your authenticity shine, pretending to be sizzling bacon, sniffing bums in class, booking a one time guest slot on The Big Bang Th...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Sacha Parkinson. We chat about finding your feet, getting comfortable, learning to shut up, turning thirty, setting boundaries, accepting that you’re not going to play younger roles, Ingram’s screen acting anxiety, starting acting as a child versus starting as an adult, our shared TV obsession, where Sacha gets a really weird shooting pa...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Billy Price. We chat about losing hope, two years of Drama School Dropout, controversial primary school acting, themed Christmas wrapping, rude celebrities, Billy Elliot, the fear of working on a TV show with no experience in camera acting, the north/south border, his many crazy storylines on Hollyoaks, OG Hollyoaks characters, our favou...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by a childhood hero of mine and Broadway icon, Jenna Ushkowitz. We chat about the TV show that changed my life, being on Broadway at nine years old, being a child actor, going to Drama School after having a successful Broadway career, Drama Schools not accommodating actors working professionally, attending a performing arts high school, being in the ve...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Chris Moffat. We chat about my Big Brother experience, Scottish crime dramas, picking up accents, reinforcing stereotypes, refusing to sing, doing a Magic Mike strip dance on his last day of Drama School, New College Lanarkshire, people moving to Australia, playing Judas, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Good Bit Podcast and being famo...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Georgia Henshaw. We chat about our shared connection to Cambodia, seeing her first audition brief and it saying ‘tubby’, meeting Ruth Jones, the return of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, auditioning with Ray Quinn, the famous Two Pints pre show ritual, stealing a giant BAFTA head, being part of Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogg...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Michelle Collins. We chat about how Michelle got into acting, childhood trips to the Palladium pantomimes, being told at school you can’t be an actor, doing a pottery GCSE, Drama School Rejection, her music career, the benefits of Equity, lying about being able to play the trumpet, her first TV job alongside Gary Oldman, auditioning for...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Andrew Ellis. We chat about How Andrew coped during lockdown, getting into acting for the girls, getting paid £50 a day to be an extra during the Summer holidays, his mum mistaking Stephen Graham for a camera man on his audition for This Is England, the price of Drama School, having to sit in a puddle, having to eat sausage after sausage...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Sally Carman-Duttine. We move back to Ingram absolutely idolising Shameless and we chat about Sally’s acting influences, breaking boundaries on Shameless, adjusting to married life, getting kicked off of her BTEC in performing arts, studying at LAMDA, fighting barriers and stereotypes, the biggest lesson Sally learnt at Drama School, Sal...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Julian Moore-Cook. We chat about live streamed theatre, being back to normal at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Ingram gives his Fringe Festival run down including Billy Kirkwood’s stand up show, Delayed and Ode to Joy!, the lifestyle of acting, being an LA w*nker, Mission Impossible 2, playing the wise man, the moment in time where you c...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Natalie Gavin. We chat about Natalie’s first ever job on Shameless, how even when Ingram is trying to avoid talking about Shameless it still comes up in conversation, head butting Gerard Kearns and busting his lip, her four bus commute to uni, learning to own her voice, playing tough roles with tough dialogue, Ackley Bridge, self tape cl...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Laurie Duncan. We chat about the joy you get from being solely an actor and that actually paying the bills, being a little kid who loves attention, getting his first job on Law and Order UK, unrealistic expectations for after graduation, auditioning for Hollyoaks, The Pritchard Brothers, working with Dylan Llewellyn on Hollyoaks, wanting...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Katie Griffiths. We chat about getting back to normal after the pandemic, pandemic positives, the mysterious case of Katie’s missing Northern accent, the importance of networking, throwing a mobile phone and hitting a sound technician, we get the inside scoop on the new series of Waterloo Road, Catherine Tate and David Tennent, worst aud...

This week on Drama School Dropout it’s the 100th episode and I’m joined by star of Shameless and Bohemian Rhapsody, Aaron McCusker. We chat about having a day to prepare for his Shameless audition, Aaron’s love for Celtic, being dragged to amateur dramatics clubs kicking and screaming as a child, the downfalls of Drama School, the weird stuff you have to do in Drama School, doing a sex scene with...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Reece Douglas. We chat about a chance audition for a new Waterloo Road family that started his career, his first scene with a gun, getting drunk for a scene, how he found his Waterloo Road character had been killed off, not wanting to be on the West End, the worst pants experience of his life, getting a cheque in the post for five grand,...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Annie Wallace. We chat about British people’s love of chatting about the weather, inspiring and helping bring the character of Hayley Cropper to life, how Hayley brought around a lot of public support for the LGBTQIA+ community at a time when it was needed the most, the terrifying state of UK politics, going to Drama School as a mature s...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing William Moseley. We chat about getting his start as Peter in the Narnia films, booking lead roles since the beginning of his career, winning a drama scholarship, going to acting classes in New York, the Narnia WhatsApp group chat and being struck by lightning while filming. Host: Ingram Noble Guest: William Moseley Producers: Heather Spi...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Gregg Binkley. We chat about playing Snoopy in the eighth grade, nerves, working in the industry for thirty years and still being in an acting class, crazy drama school stories, My Name Is Earl being cancelled, starring on Family Feud, a My Name Is Earl reunion, doing celebrity impersonations, getting discovered while working in a fiftie...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Lin Tucci. We talk about their very different, but similar paths through the pandemic, living in New York City, stealing from set, working with Jodie Foster, learning to love the ladies of Lichfield, stealing from the Orange Is The New Black set, almost dropping out of Drama School to star in Grease on Broadway but choosing to go back to...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Gary Hollywood. We chat about his first role at the age of twelve on Taggart, how he met Brendan O’Carroll and landed the job on Mrs Brown’s Boys, and his well documented departure from the show, working on Take The High Road, twisted showcase scenes, Ingram’s lack of camera acting classes, being directed by Alan Rickman, dealing with lo...