Drama School Dropout

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Jessica Ellis. We chat missing out on a tour due to COVID, owning VHS tapes equating to you being old, working with Kay Mellor on Fat Friends, toxic primary school parents, studying at Italia Conti, students dry humping in the corner of the room, walking down Clapham High Street in practice skirts and shoes, our elf bar flavours of choic...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Jordan Fry. We chat about Johnny Depp telling him to shut up, being a professional from the beginning, stealing his mum’s audition and being an adorable child and also stealing his mum’s agent, going to Drama School with the confidence of a big dick in a locker room, the types of people in drama classes, Ingram’s favourite playback theat...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Michael Harney. We chat about getting into acting by acting, working with acting legends and getting sober, acting in and directing eighty plays, driving limousines, working with Jenji Kohan on Weeds which lead to his stint on Orange Is The New Black, learning how to justify a flawed character’s point of view, and there being no right wa...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Michael Parr. We chat about performing Shakespeare, restoration plays, snobbery, auditions not being fair, toxic masculinity, the cool kids who peaked in year eleven joining the school musical, growing up as a “drama kid” in an area that always had the connotations of Billy Elliot, being a dual citizen, the financial side of the business...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Fern Deacon. We chat about Ingram finally graduating, things finally feeling like it's completely back to normal after lockdown, Fern getting her start in The King and I, actors not being "good" at "academic" subjects, going to Theatre School and starting a boarding house, harmonised happy birthdays, learning to deal with rejection, bein...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Craig Mclean. We chat about Ingram’s latest play Vanity Fair, Craig’s football career, his new TV show, Dirty Water, Catherine Tate and Karen Dunbar, teachers belting Michael Buble, our love for Two Pints of Lager, getting his professional debut at Play, Pie and a Pint and one of the most horrific audition stories Ingram has ever heard....

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Tracey Lynch. We chat about the end of Derry Girls, her first job with Kenneth Branagh, growing up in the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland, the new competitive nature of the industry, being part of the Billy Plays, bomb damage sales, London Irish, meeting Emma Thompson and Judi Dench and having a stalker.    Host: Ing...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the iconic Daniel Franzese. We chat about booking his first ever job, his time at the Florida school of the arts, his second career as a party planner, the biggest lesson he learned at drama school on day one, the realisation that being an actor doesn’t have to be your only identity, dealing with egocentric actors, the greatest apple pie story ever...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by one of the funniest women in Scotland, Louise McCarthy. We chat about being one half of Scotland's most successful cabaret double acts, The Dolls, being brought to Drama Clubs with the promise of meeting hot boys, quitting smoking, studying in London, how your first acting job is like losing your virginity, Ingram's worst audition to date, auditioni...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing John Stuart. We chat about creative ways to get agents to take your calls, dislocating his shoulder in class, vomit machines not working on stage, how going to a random networking event changed the course of a TV treatment script John had written, doing the full monty to raise funds for his first ever fringe show, his play (and now TV sh...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing John Ross Bowie. We chat about getting slapped in the face by a teacher on the first day of Drama School, his agent dropping him from their books right before he was cast on The Big Bang Theory, the handling of Barry Kripke’s speech impediment, the freedom to improvise on set, the filming locations of Britain, the American take over of G...

This time on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Amy Anzel. We chat about getting ready to go to the Olivier Awards, auditioning for the Sound of Music in Westchester, New York. Her parent’s influence that lead to a bachelor’s degree in Music, the behind the scenes gossip from Amy’s recent stint on The Apprentice, her dislike of Alan Sugar and the respect lost for Karen Brady, producin...

This time on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Ciarán Griffiths. We chat about being in Shameless and playing relatable characters and portraying the working class, relocating to Australia after touring with a play, the Maguire Family whatsapp chat,  a chance job thanks to an casting director coming outside for a cigarette, being in The Bill, going to Drama School for the opport...

This time on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Sarah Jayne Dunn. We chat about her controversial sacking from Hollyoaks with immediate effect and not being able to film exit scenes, being allowed to lads mags and not allowed to do OnlyFans, not watching the news, the Pritchard Brothers, finding passions in school, Ingram’s fear of singing, still in school and working on Hollyoaks, dr...

This time on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Fraser Allan Hogg. We chat about his first performance in a pantomime in the SECC, the differences between writing for stage and screen, the importance of having life experience before studying acting, the intensity of Drama School, dealing with nerves, being scared to fail, our show Vanity Fair and our manifestations for our final Drama...

This week on Drama School Dropout, it's my birthday and I am joined by EastEnders' current bad boy, Charlie Wernham. We chat about a possible Bad Education Reunion, getting older, career worries, doing stand up comedy in Haven Holiday Parks, being on Britain's Got Talent and The Inbetweeners and giving one of the producers a good hiding, being an Essex boy on EastEnders, acting bucket lists and a...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Amanda Beveridge, who also happens to be my Drama School Lecturer. We chat about the heart-breaking circumstance that lead Amanda to pursue acting as a career, how my Drama School showcase transformed me, being willing to get things wrong, being on a show report for peeing yourself, not getting the right information for an audition, bein...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Will Ropp. We chat about working with Zac Efron and Maddie Ziegler, Ingram's constant jealousy of anyone who lives in LA, growing up in Connecticut, going to Musical Theatre summer camp, the heartbreak (and irony!) of being too old to play Peter Pan, the concept of the American Summer Camp phenomenon, faking playwright's names, creating...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Lucy Dixon. We chat about wedding planning, playing Shepherd Number Three, spitting on people while working on diction, leaving school and then joining another one in Waterloo Road, underage drinking and borrowing ID, finding an agent that works for you, the return of Waterloo Road and possible return of Danielle, agents turning down job...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Nick Rhys. We chat about studying at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, being sabotaged by arsehole acting students, performing a crazy Scottish piece for an industry showcase, landing a job on one of Britain’s biggest soap operas despite it being the one thing he never wanted to do, jumping off a burning train in a kilt, film...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Sean Connor. We chat about The Tron Theatre’s really cool ticket pricing scheme that is making theatre more accessible, working with Frankie Boyle at thirteen, New College Lanarkshire, playing dodgeball in a voice class, acting students who take ‘getting into character’ too far, being part of Still Game,  being a working class actor...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Phil Hill-Pearson. We chat about his students discovering him on Shameless for the first time, his first job as an understudy in a Bird’s Eye advert, our shared struggles at drama school that has lead us along a very similar path, spending student loans in the pub, disagreeing with lecturer’s ‘methods’, playing Bruce Donnelly in Shameles...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Jazmine Franks. We chat about baring your soul at half nine in the morning in a drama class, starting out in Medea, the fear when leaving stable acting jobs, the reality of characters being ‘left open’ on soaps, celebrating Jazmine’s 21st birthday at Hollyoaks, being part of the historic Hollyoaks bullying storyline, on stage proposals,...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Alan Dale. We chat about the end of Neighbours and the possibility of Alan’s return, impersonating Shelley Berman, swords falling apart on stage, doing Spamalot on the West End, starting acting lessons at the age of 52, auditioning for Ugly Betty with a pair of lacy red panties in his pocket, the time my old drama school lecturers turned...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Marnie Thomson. We chat about injuries, being scared of wanting to be an actor because it was the family business, being scared of making fools of ourselves, suffering with anxiety and agoraphobia, Marnie does the worst Maggie Smith impression, the legacy of her mum, Lesley Fitz-Simons, and our industry showcase.  Host: Ingram Noble...