This week on Drama School Dropout it's my birthday and I am joined by the amazing, Jason Ritter! We chat about Raise Your Voice, the SAG AFTRA strike, being registered to vote, working with a seventeen year old Jack Black, being roommates with Simon Helberg whilst studying at NYU, the US remake of Gavin and Stacey, preparing to be ignored, studying at RADA, Hilary Duff, religious activists trying to have actors put on the sex offenders’ register, lecturers confiscating ID’s before shows, working on  Law and Order: SVU, getting GTA advice from Ice-T, Matlock and Jason’s stick figure f ..read more

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Jacob Fisher. We chat about Nigel Farage in the jungle, the GCSE drama hierarchy, playing villains, Drama School speed dating, gym life, Newsies, meeting Abby Lee Miller, relearning how to tap on Anything Goes and then auditioning for Newsies, gargling TCP, why being a Newsie meant so much to Jacob, performing on the Royal Variety Show, favourite lines of dialogue and we play possibly the most uncomfortable game of Stage Right or Stage Shite? Submit your story for Stage Right or Stage Shite: https://forms.gle/1p296t4Uu1F1XVvN9 Hos ..read more

This week on Drama School Dropout we're doing something a little bit different. As we countdown to episode 200 we're taking a look back on some of my favourite Stage Right or Stage Shite stories. On stage proposals, danger wankers, insurance fraud, fisting, catching teachers wanking, chastity belts, Queen Camilla and wafflestomping. Stage Right or Stage Shite? has it all. Submit your story for Stage Right or Stage Shite: https://forms.gle/1p296t4Uu1F1XVvN9 Host: Ingram Noble Episodes Featured: Episode 71 w/ Jazmine Franks (@jazzfranks) Episode 121 w/ Tanya MacDonald (@tanyamac88) Episode 138 ..read more

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Lorna Calder. We chat about that very first mental showing of This Is Where We Get Off, acting on zoom, in person auditions, first jobs being with companies in LA, not knowing what a tech rehearsal is, not being a fan of drama in school, starring in a BBC feature film, struggling with the industry, performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Shakespeare, James Norton, being late, rolling people in wheelchairs off stage, bringing drugs into Drama School and we reveal who we’d love to work with again and who we refuse to work with ag ..read more

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Scott Folan. We chat about rejection, auditions, quitting theatre, the current lack of theatre etiquette, England shutting down at 4PM on a Sunday, joining the National Theatre at thirteen years old, alcoholic nuns, being forced to method act, professional lives interfering with personal lives, self confidence, Macbeth with Catherine Tate, therapy, life coaching, making music and our favourite alcoholic beverages. *THIS EPISODE OF DRAMA SCHOOL DROPOUT WAS RECORDED PRIOR TO THE SAG-AFTRA STRIKE* This conversation contains mentions ..read more

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Daphne Maxwell Reid. We chat about the SAG AFTRA strike, working at a news station, unions, the price of Spotlight, being the first black woman to be on the cover of Glamour Magazine, acting on camera, being a trailblazing woman, replacing Janet Hubert as Aunt Vivian on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and how she originally passed on the role a few years earlier, how Will Smith paid for everyone to decorate their dressing rooms, Idris Elba, working with your partner, skipping acting class to see the Queen’s coffin, having your hair chop ..read more

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Niamh Currie. We chat about Flatmates, going back to Drama School, Niamh’s first time at Drama School being over Zoom during the pandemic, losing our Fringe virginities together, learning more about our own history through acting, joining shows a week before opening night, having to learn to act while standing up, Zoom Drama School students loving self tapes, learning to handle rejection, Scottish primary schools forcing kids to do Shakespeare, having a week to learn an entire script, having to learn x-rated scripts while working in ..read more

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Lauren Drummond. We chat about Waterloo Road, Holby City, parenting, keeping secrets, hoarding scripts, auditioning for Drama School, studying at Yale, near death experiences, UKIP campaigning classmates, learning to be free and open, knock off Nuts magazines stealing production shots, Sarah Lancashire, being part of a trailblazing show from the beginning, sharing a car with Denise Welch, why Mika didn’t attend Chlo’s funeral, studying acting outside of school, becoming a jack of all trades and OnlyFans. Submit your story for Stage ..read more

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Lee Lomas. We chat about the work/life balance of a freelance creative, teaching, living with chronic pain, finding confidence, leaving the industry, preparing to be ignored, nepotism, being a hand mixer, Lee’s school - The Working Actor’s Studio, Brian Cox, Shameless, only being able to do one episode of your favourite TV show, the lines of political correctness, Little Britain and Bo’Selecta, smoking real cigarettes on screen, having sex in Drama School classrooms, Lee’s new short film and what colour lightsaber we’d like. Submit ..read more

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Zachary James. We chat about Hadestown, winning a Grammy, how I’ve finally signed with an agent, an unconventional approach to Drama School auditions, being awarded “performer of the decade”, my journey to winning a Grammy, sophomore streak, finding your acting process, crying on command, Marisha Wallace on Celebrity Big Brother, vegetables being taped to foreheads for Drama School assignments, the Full Monty gone wrong, manifestation, the importance of carrying a dry erase marker, being called Handsome Squidward and we start early ..read more