How Very Hannah

Meet my unofficial co-host Ruben, who refused to move and took over the whole chair 🐾 This week I'm answering your Confessions, and I'm walking you through exactly what happens at your first ever audition, from the waiting area to the dance call to the singing audition. I also answer a 16 year old who's just been told to take performing seriously and isn't sure where to start. Plus, the first eve...

This month’s throwback will have you singing from the rooftops… cause I’m bringing back not one but three iconic guests!! 🎶 Remember Monday — Lauren, Holly and Charlotte, our 2025 UK Eurovision girls — joined me in the studio last year just before their headline tour. A lot has happened since. We revisit the Eurovision zero televote moment, Holly’s secret nine-show Les Mis career, and the time I...

She poked me in the brain with her wig, and we still had to walk on stage. That is on the Divina De Campo experience! 🤪 This week I’m joined by my on-stage husband from the SpongeBob Musical UK tour — the iconic Divina De Campo. Drag Race UK Series 1 runner-up, four-octave vocal range, Ride the Cyclone, Amanda at the Bridge House Theatre, and now about to play Hugo/Loco Chanelle in the 10th Anniv...

Happy Halloweeeen 👻👻 well… almost  This week How Very Hannah is going full spooky kooky, and I am not sorry!! Forget the career chat. This week I'm telling you the real ghost stories of the West End — and I mean real. I’m going full true crime podcaster with FOUR STORIES from Theatre Royal Drury Lane, His Majesty's Theatre, and the Adelphi stage door. Content warning: we do talk about murder. If...

It’s a family affair in the studio this week, and it was absolutely chaotic! It’s Max, Harvey and Tilly!! ✨ The twins started performing as babies and went on to build one of the UK's biggest social media followings — all while being, by their own admission, completely annihilated at school for it. Their little sister Tilly, 15, is along for the ride too, doing GSA on weekends and building her ow...

Guys... we're throwing it back!! and for our very first Throwback Thursday we're going all the way to the beginning... 🎭 This is the episode that started it all - our very first guest episode of How Very Hannah, with the one and only Layton Williams.  (listen to the full ep!!) When we filmed this, Layton hadn't had his Olivier nomination yet, let alone won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for play...

A corn nut through and through… I’m sitting down this week with the woman currently living in my old stomping ground!! 🖤 Gerardine Sacdalan is playing Veronica Sawyer in Heathers — WhatsonStage nominated for Best Professional Debut for her turn as Juliet in &Juliet, and now taking on (arguably) the most demanding lead track in musical theatre. We get into the Heathers fandom and what it's act...

It's the first solo episode of Series 4 and we are going back to school!! 🎭 I've got my unofficial cohost (Ruben hehe 🐾), my notes, and approximately four years of drama school experience to share with you as term kicks off for so many!! Whether you're starting drama school this September, thinking about it for the future, or just here for the chaos, I can say with absolute certainty that there...

WE'RE BACK 🎉 Series 4 is HERE and we are opening it with an absolute legend... The one, the only, the ICON that is Bonnie Langford is on the pod… and I am still not okay about it 😭 And there’s only one way to interview Bonnie - and that’s with a hot seat style chat to go through her ENTIRE career because genuinely where do you even start — West End debut at 7, Broadway at 9 opposite Angela Lansb...

Hi from Belfast!! 👋 This week there’s no set, or red curtains, or How Very Hannah sign. Instead, it’s just me, my dressing room and my vlog camera, as we have a little announcement… How Very Hannah is taking a summer break!!  I’ve been nonstop this year as you all know - and with Legally Blonde having a few weeks off, it feels like the right time for the whole HVH team to have a little bit of dow...

She thought she was a Gabriella... but she was ALWAYS Sharpay - and this week she's on the pod. It’s Caitlin Tipping!! Caitlin's career is genuinely stacked from Jane Seymour in Six on the NCL Bliss cruise to covering Elsa in Disney's Frozen at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and Cathy in The Last Five Years at Edinburgh Fringe. She has done it all and she is only just getting started ✨ We get into eve...

omigod you guys… we have our first MBE ACTOR IN THE STUDIO!!! Matt Henry MBE (full name at all times tehe) joins me this week - Olivier Award winner, MBE for services to musical theatre, original Lola in Kinky Boots, and currently playing Nigel in The Devil Wears Prada at the Dominion Theatre. And honestly, this conversation gave me so much. I had my notepad out, I was furiously scribbling, and I...

Right, before we get into this episode, we have some very exciting news… How Very Hannah has been nominated for Podcast of the Year at The ITV bCreator™ Awards 2026!! 🥹✨ We are shortlisted, voting is officially open, and I need you to get over there RIGHT NOW and vote for us. It would mean the absolute world. Fill your details out and find us in the Creators Awards under ‘ Podcast bCreator of th...

Clammy hands, hammy fingers and a charades game that nearly broke the show - it's my Legally Blonde co-star… George Crawford, aka Emmett Forrest himself!! 🎭 This ep is chaos from start to finish… we get into George's incredible career journey, from auditioning for drama school with absolutely no idea what he was doing, to landing Book of Mormon straight out of Arts Ed without even having an agent...

BOG OFF… no but don’t because DANI HARMER is on How Very Hannah!!! This one has been on my dream guest list since day one of this podcast, and I am so excited for you to hear this chat 🎭 We get into everything from her West End debut at six years old in The Who's Tommy (she had no idea who The Who was, bless her dad), doing the Annie tour at 10, her Rocky Horror days, and the audition process for...

Put your best red boots on, Lola’s in the house!! 💃🏾 This week I'm joined by the incredible Tosh Wanogho-Maud, currently playing alternate Lola in Kinky Boots at the Coliseum , and I genuinely could have talked to this man for hours. Wise, hilarious, and absolutely full of the kind of advice that makes you want to go home and write everything down. Tosh's career is honestly staggering - from mak...

This week I'm joined by the one, the only… Charley Marlowe!! Content creator, presenter, red carpet queen, THEATRE LOVER, and honestly one of the funniest people I've ever had in the studio!! 🎭 We get into how she went from production runner making 58 cups of tea a day to landing gigs at the BAFTAs, the BRITs and the Oliviers - including a genuinely brilliant encounter with Kate Fleetwood that ne...

⚠️ This is an audio-only episode - but trust us, you're not gonna want to miss a second of it!! 🎭 On Sunday 24th May, How Very Hannah made its West End debut at the Garrick Theatre for one night only… and we recorded it so you could all be part of it!! We're so proud of this one🩷 The incredible Marisha Wallace joined me on stage, talking about going from a tap dancing egg on Broadway to becoming...

🎟️ Grab the last few tickets for HOW VERY HANNAH LIVE, THIS SUNDAY at The Garrick! I’m taking over the West End on Sunday 24th May for a very special evening... with unreal guests MARISHA WALLACE and DAISY TWELLS!! See you there ✨  ⁠⁠https://www.aegpresents.co.uk/event/how-very-hannah/⁠⁠ ------- She won Britain's Got Talent, played Cruella in 101 Dalmatians AND has just dropped a new single… it's...

She's back!! Gracie McGonigal made her How Very Hannah debut on the What's On Stage red carpet and now she's finally in the studio, and this chat did not disappoint. 🎭 Gracie is currently playing Little Red in Into the Woods at the Bridge Theatre and we get into everything - how she genuinely thought Little Red died after Act One and had no idea how much of the show she was in, the Disney Jaw she...

I have been so excited for this one!! Jordan Luke Gage is one of the most multi-talented humans I know… original Romeo in &Juliet, Clyde in Bonnie and Clyde, Cal in Titanic, and now he's written his own musical. Yeah. His own musical (!!!) 🎭 In this ep, we get into his insane career trajectory, from four years of not being able to book a job after drama school, to Max Martin coming to watch h...

Shoes off, sinuses blocked, Leon sausage and egg bap in the system… it's a solo ep and we have a LOT to catch up on!! 🎭 We've just finished Canterbury - meningitis outbreak, masks on, no stage door, and somehow still one of my favourite weeks on tour so far. I did Elle twice, Margot six times, stayed with Remi and Rai, did a proper food shop and honestly felt like a functioning human being for on...

BLESS MY SOUL, Luke Brady's on a roll… into the studio!! 🎭 Luke is currently playing Hercules at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and what a delightful chat we had this week. We get into what it's actually like working for Disney, why the scale of Hercules is unlike anything he's done before, and how a chance conversation with Imelda Staunton mid-rehearsal completely changed how he approaches his cra...

My first ever Legally Blonde cast guest is HERE!!! and honestly it was worth the wait, as I'm joined this week by the incredible Jocasta Almgill, AKA the iconic Brooke Wyndham herself 🎉 We get into what it's actually like playing Brooke - including six months of skipping training, the press night skipping rope incident that drew actual blood (I'm so sorry Daisy), and why Jocasta never in a millio...

It's just me this week!! Well, almost… but we'll get to that. 🤭 I'm fresh off what I can only describe as the most chaotic week of my entire career (so far) in Milton Keynes, and I needed to sit down and tell you all about it!! Mid-show swing ons, show stops, four different people playing Margot in one week, concert versions nobody planned for - Milton Keynes, you will go down in history. 🎭 I'm...