Drama School Dropout

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Cameron Fulton. We chat about finally being allowed to pass props back and forth after the pandemic, industry showcases being affected by the Omicron variant, his initial plans to join the police, working with Channing Tatum on his second professional job, his time at Drama School, his time on River City and getting the job while he was...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the iconic Catherine Curtin. We chat about the heartbreaking reason behind her introduction to acting, being a native New Yorker and going to theatre every week, our experiences and hopes of our loved ones getting to see us perform, putting on plays at Princeton University, working in theatres that were part of New York City’s underground meat deliv...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Samantha McGowan. We chat about being mesmerised by the west end, having to choose between drama and maths in school, the transition from Drama School Dropout to Drama School Graduate, back up plans, losing her mum at an early age and how that affected her, our love for Catherine Tate, a bitch called Jenny, love lives in Drama School and...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Cole Stewart. We chat about accidentally becoming the school’s ‘drama kid’, the difference between listening and waiting to talk, feeling the fomo watching the ‘covid graduates’ being pushed into jobs, being a late arrival in a college class, the Brassneck Theatre Company, obsessing over Elaine C. Smith, singing on cruise ships and our i...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the wonderful June Gable. We chat about my latest business venture of giving tours of Scotland to the stars, how playing a nurse on Friends lead to the role of a lifetime in Estelle Leonard, how June’s mother’s bizarre clothes helped create one of her first ever roles, studying at Carnegie Melon, wearing a lot of different hats in order to make it i...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Annette Badland. We chat about feeling the audience for the first time, being in the local W.I’s plays, actors being locked in room’s in drama school, studying animal’s behaviour, being fat shamed, adapting to the new digital world of acting, being nominated for an Olivier, the realities of soap opera fame and tackling a soap opera chara...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the wonderful Camilla Power. We chat about not wanting to be in a singing class with Denise Van Outen, Camilla’s latest projects Showtrial and Trigger Point, getting royalties from streaming, the return of Waterloo Road,  our horrible school experiences, being cast as the shepherd and having to wear ugly costumes, filming Narnia with Tom Baker,...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the wonderful Maria Canals-Barrera. We chat about realising her call to acting while she was playing Amanda in the Glass Menagerie in High School, learning lines the night before an exam, missing opening night and getting dumped, the global appeal of Wizards of Waverley Place, opportunities for diverse casting that aren’t stereotypical, the Lizzie M...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Jemma McKenzie-Brown. We chat about student’s mental health, switching back to our native accents, London’s lack of mash, whether Jesus was born in Pret A Manger, moving to London at 11 years old and living with a host family, Rita Ora asking Jemma to feel her armpit, 50 Shades of Grey: The Musical, being in M.I. High, being in High Scho...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by one of my favourite actors, Jack Deam. We chat about Alison Steadman playing his mum, being terrified of cameras, his not normal experience of getting a role on Shameless, I carry on my Shameless USA hate campaign, the generation of actors that won’t know what it’s like to do an in person audition, UCAS fees, bad auditions, travelling back and forwa...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Jacqueline Emerson. We chat about being a fan of The Hunger Games and then being cast in it, Jennifer Lawrence’s very kind gesture, the past two years, working on film sets during the pandemic, I find out if Caitlyn Jenner won the election, I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, being a child actor, being part of Disney’s kids rock band and...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Chris Jenkins. We chat about missing out on being in the iconic Nativity story, being in Gel! The Musical (not Grease), the Animal Studies classes we both took in Drama School, how having a little bit more life experience can propel your success in drama school, playing the sexy nun in Spamalot, working with the Royal Opera House, tourin...

This week on Drama School Dropout we're celebrating our one year anniversary! I am joined by the iconic Dinah Manoff. We chat about her iconic role of Marty Maraschino in the biggest movie musical of all time, her new novel The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold, Stella Adler kicking her out of her acting class, growing up in showbusiness, her mother Lee Grant and following in her footsteps,...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Brian Falduto. We chat about our trip to Broadway, the reopening of HadesTown, Brian forcing his family to finish their dinner to watch him perform in the living room, the line that cemented his place in the hall of iconic movie quotes, the ten step audition process for The School Of Rock, being one of the only forms of LGBT representati...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Rebecca Ryan. We chat about getting out of lockdown and being able to support our friends in theatre, the misconception that the wages from working on major TV shows is enough to set you up for life, how a chance audition changed her life, the improvised audition that really kick started her career, growing up on the set of Shameless, ho...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Josh Knowles. We chat about This Is Where We Get Off, lying to his mates about taking drama at school, the toxic masculinity that comes with studying acting, dodgy primary school performances that included tap dancing witches in Macbeth, my hate for separate acting Instagram accounts, growing up on the Isle of Skye with dreams of being a...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Holly Prowse. We chat about This Is Where We Get Off, being a shy child in drama classes, making our stage debuts, trying to find our feet after secondary school, auditioning with Kevin Bacon’s monologue, classic Drama School monologues, Shakespeare, and the end of college celebrations being cancelled by COVID. Host: Ingram Noble Guest:...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Bart Johnson. We chat about car accidents, growing up on the sets of iconic TV shows, toxic masculinity surrounding boys doing drama, meeting Robin Williams and Farrah Fawcett and having dinner with Hugh Jackman, Hugh Heffner showing up to acting class in his limo, how High School Musical was almost missing our favourite basketball coach...

It’s another podcast first! We’ve had Jodie Steele on the podcast recording from a moving train (complete with ticket checks!) and now, for the 50th episode Kabir Bery joins me from a car. We chat about playing Swampy the Pirate, studying in New York City, playing Kevin Gnapoor in the US tour of Mean Girls, the infamous Kevin G rap, auditioning in front of Tina Fey, stage combat going wrong, and d...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the wonderful Chloë Johnson. We chat about starting off with the Scottish National Youth Theatre, seeing Scottish working class people working in theatre, the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performing plays over Zoom, playing Dorothy in pantomime, performing fringe previews with masks on and how stage lights and visors don't mix well.  Host: I...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the iconic Freddie Hogan. We chat about binge watching iconic TV shows during lockdown, the arts post-pandemic, playing Bugsy Malone in the local Library, reading aloud as Lady Macbeth in School, studying at the Oxford School of Drama (with Nicola Coughlan), the Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Reunion, being a vocal coach, forging CV credi...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Kelli Hollis. We chat about the past year, Tina Goes Shopping, street casting, Kelli’s Shameless audition journey, secrets from the first series of Shameless, a life-size cardboard cut-out of Chris Bisson, rewriting the English curriculum, Ackley Bridge, starting on Emmerdale in The Woolpack, breaking iconic Emmerdale sets, walking down...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Ethan Lawrence. We chat about our transition into adulthood, Bad Education with Jack Whitehall, After Life with Ricky Gervais, anti-vaxxers, student loans, how Catherine Tate would make me look like a piece of sh*t, not having any formal training, the two reasons people go to Drama School, why universities don't let students take time of...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Erin Clark. We chat about Erin's career as a figure skater, being part of female lead plays, jumping into the deep end at the Conservatoire, my most recent RCS rejection, creating our own theatre, getting pissed with Olivia Colman, our time at the fabulous Glasgow Kelvin College, backstage arguments and making the decision to not carry o...

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Ryan Clayton We chat about finally having a guest from each of the ‘Fab Four’, being part of issue-based storylines, coming from a background where it just wasn’t really okay to do acting, the toxic masculinity that comes with wanting to pick GCSE Drama as a ‘lad’, losing a line on Prisoner’s Wives, product placement in soaps, walking in...