This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Ryan Dean! We chat about Ackley Bridge, setting birthday precedents in rehearsal rooms, being inspired by Billy Elliot, starting ballet and eventually being cast as Billy in the West End, becoming the new face of an established TV show, getting stuck in a role, drama school scams, failed stand up, theatre etiquette, Ryan’s favourite Ackley Bridge scenes and our maths skills are called into question.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Ryan Dean

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ryan's Instagram: @itsryandean

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

This week on Drama School Dropout it's the podcast's FOURTH birthday! I am joined by the amazing, George Sampson! We chat about Waterloo Road, Britain’s Got Talent, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the current audition drought, Brassic, how winning Britain’s Got Talent has been slightly detrimental to George’s acting career, working with Lorraine Stanley, doing panto, the final ever Gavin and Stacey, starting as a busker, paying off his mum’s mortgage at age fourteen, travelling to work by helicopter, killing Mr Clarkson, working with, meeting Beyonce, George’s love/hate relationship with his Singing In The Rain remix, vibrating cock rings, missing cues and our most embarrassing school moments.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: George Sampson

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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George's Instagram: @georgesampson

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Constance Shulman! We chat about Orange Is The New Black, the culture of streaming, Blockbuster, growing up in Tennessee, being a beauty school dropout, moving to New York City, getting kicked out of Drama School, being in the original cast of Steel Magnolias, meeting Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Dolly Parton and Elizabeth Taylor, coming back to film the series finale of Orange Is The New Black, meeting the real Yoga Jones and dodgy fake tans. 

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Constance Shulman

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Joel Montague. We chat about fans thinking they have ownership of people’s private lives, trying to make waves in the industry, Dance Moms, perceived nepotism, being a bumblebee, being bribed with fruit pastilles, the King’s Chest, breaking into Drama School, getting big roles, CV’s and headshots at Showcase, Gemma Collins, working at Hamilton, stealing from sets, working with Zoë Wanamaker, being an actor when COVID hit being happy and the engagement story to end all engagement stories.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Joel Montague

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Joel's Instagram & Twitter: @joelmontague10

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This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing John McCrea. We chat about singing his first solo in school, how we both got into acting, self tapes, smoking behind Drama School, Ben Mitchell going from camp to gangster, your loved ones watching you act, soaps up and down the country, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, getting fired from a cruise ship, the very first workshops for Jamie, working with Michelle Visage, taking momentos from shows, going from the stage show to the film adaptation, The Jamie Legacy, Heartstopper, our dream dinner parties and venturing into Toryland.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: John McCrea

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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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 for Benidorm, how subversive Benidorm was, the crazy nights out, doing the YMCA, the show coming back, doing a one night two hander, playing Ghandi, taking out adverts in programmes to break up with people in the show and working on Pirates of the Caribbean.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Paul Bazely

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Paul's Instagram: @paulbazely

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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 you, ‘The Time Machine’ and getting paid to sleep.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Gabrielle Monica Hughes

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Gabrielle's Instagram: @gabriellemonicahughes

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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 complaints at Waterloo Road, nearly killing dogs, falling over on the Coronation Street cobbles, working on Heartbeat, being on the Four Screenwriting Programme and writing TV scripts.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Vanessa Hehir

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Vanessa's Instagram: @vanessahehir81

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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, singing, naked chess games and working on Hollyoaks.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Jared Garfield

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Jared's Instagram: @jaredgarfield

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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 reunion, filming on the Universal lot, working with Betty White and TV shows ending before they get terrible.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Kelly Schumann

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Kelly's Instagram: @thatkellymarie

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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 Theory that turned to a repeating guest role, what Kaley Cuoco said to him while they were filming the series three finale of The Big Bang, the spin off Brian wrote, losing jobs in the worst way possible, manifesting life, and what roles we’d love to play.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Brian Thomas Smith

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Brian's Instagram: @brian_thomas_smith

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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 pain, dressing up as Frank Gallagher for Michelle Keegan’s leaving party, getting a whole new wardrobe from Coronation Street, stealing, the funniest stage rights and stage shites, being in Mr Selfridges, being ten feet away from Angelina Jolie and having a film at the Toronto Film Festival.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Sacha Parkinson

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Sacha's Instagram: @sachalparkinson

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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 favourite Gavin & Stacey moments and onlyfans. 

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Host: Ingram Noble 

Guest: Billy Price 

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble 

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble 

Billy's Instagram: @billypricee 

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This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Jake Davies! We chat about Screw, Jake’s one-man Steve Irvine show, JLS condoms, other artistic paths, making sacrifices, playing JLS in nappies, TikTok, still not seeing Game of Thrones, Martin Compston, Alex Lawther, filming during the height of the pandemic, living in Glasgow, working with Dame Judi Dench, Shakespeare inspired porn and giving out signed headshots.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Jake Davies

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Jake's Instagram: @jhdake

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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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 very first high school production of Les Misérables, impersonating your heroes, working with Broadway icons, the early days of Glee, representation, living in the world of social media, cancel culture, what Jenna took from the Glee set, being too fat and not funny enough, singing at the White House for the Obamas, being on Oprah and being on Celebrity Drag Race.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Jenna Ushkowitz

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Jenna's Instagram: @jennaushkowitz

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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 famous.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Chris Moffat

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Chris' Instagram: @cm42tv

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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 Snogging, playing characters based on real people, employing acting techniques, how we cry on command, wasabi on toast, our favourite Two Pints couple, fangirl moments and making your own dildo.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Georgia Henshaw

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Georgia's Instagram: @misshenshaw

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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 the part of Punk Mary on EastEnders before landing the role of Cindy Beale, theatres burning down left, right and centre, the tricks they used to hide her pregnancy on EastEnders, the fundraiser for actors she pulled off in lockdown, supporting local theatres, being proactive as an actor, how she felt about joining Coronation Street after being in EastEnders, her mad commute from Coronation Street to home and advice from our younger selves.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Michelle Collins

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Michelle's Instagram: @michelledcollins

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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 on the set of This Is England, his podcast with Thomas Turgoose Overrated Everything, what he stole from the sets of This Is England, how I came to stop smoking, the issue with me being a prepper, the time Andrew auditioned for a condom advert and accidentally auditioning for a character that’s a different a race.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Andrew Ellis

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Andrew's Instagram: @andy_lp_ellis

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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, Sally’s Shameless costumes and how they found her costumes, Sally’s favourite Shameless moments, the proper way to curtsy, Sally wonders if Emerald Fennell is a real person, whether she had has hesitations about joining Coronation Street, the turn around on soaps and how she defines totally being in character.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Sally Carman-Duttine

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Sally's Instagram: @sally_carman__

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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 commit to becoming an actor, becoming an actor out of spite, teachers catching students doing impressions of them, auditioning for Benidorm in front of the show’s creator, getting edited out of Mission Impossible 5, forgetting character’s names and forgetting about auditions that you really want.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Julian Moore-Cook

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Julian's Instagram: @jmoore.cook

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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 classes, stealing from set and sharing glasses of wine with Alison Steadman.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Natalie Gavin

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Natalie Instagram: @natgav004

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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 to do the West End with Mike Tyson, Laurie’s worst audition story and being a dancing bell boy for a McDonalds advert.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Laurie Duncan

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Laurie's Instagram: @laurie_duncan

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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 auditions, apple pies, go to karaoke songs, our biggest industry fears and not being able to remember life without social media.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Katie Griffiths

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Katie's Instagram: @kaytgriff

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This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Lucian Burlingame! We chat about The Naked Neds, the new normal, Peaky Blinders, age gaps, acting techniques, Cillian Murphy, binge watching, the return of Gavin and Stacey, Outnumbered and Squid Game, terrible acting CV’s, preparing for the full monty, on-stage nudity, partnering with Cahonas Scotland, learning how to check our balls, playing Margaret Thatcher, American Pie and the films that have impacted us the most.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Lucian Burlingame

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

Lucian's Instagram: @lucianb3008

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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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 Imelda Staunton on his first ever job, snogging Rami Malek, his friend shouting profanities in Bosnian at children, doing auditions with Pat Butcher cardboard cut outs, getting the word “weasel” into every Shameless scenes, Bohemian Rhapsody, the pitfalls of social media and stealing things from set. Host: Ingram Noble Guest: Aaron McCusker Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble Links: Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble Aaron's Instagram: @aaronmccusker6474 Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout Buy your copy of Dropout Magazine: http://dropoutmagazine.bigcartel.com/product/dropout-magazine

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, the importance of social media followers, instagram ‘acting’ accounts, and his new film Spiceland.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Reece Douglas

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

Links:

Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Reece's Twitter: @reecedouglas1

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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 student, the problems with Drama School, being told she wasn’t going to work until she was fifty, getting her first professional job on Shameless, doing rude things with Frank Gallagher, losing a BAFTA with Peter Capaldi, working on Hollyoaks, the world of podcasting, coming out as transgender when she got the role on Hollyoaks and having 9000 blocked accounts on Twitter.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Annie Wallace

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

Links:

Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Annie's Instagram: @theanniewallace

Annie's Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/anniewallace?utm_campaign=profile_share

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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 Spiden & Ingram Noble

Links:

Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

William's Instagram: @williammoseley

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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 fifties inspired diner, lipstick ratings on mirrors, almost vomiting on live TV, being the spokesperson for Del Taco, full circle moments and moving to LA with the goal of being a series regular on a TV show. 

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Gregg Binkley

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

Links:

Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Gregg's Instagram: @greggbinkley

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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 school, Jodie Comer, debating on whether to do on screen nudity, and surrounding yourself with people who’s eyes light up when they see you coming.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Lin Tucci

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

Links:

Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Lin's Instagram: @lintuccioitnb

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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 losing part of yourself and we find out if Hollywood is his real surname. 

Host: Ingram Noble 

Guest: Gary Hollywood 

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble 

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble 

Gary's Instagram: @mrgaryhollywood 

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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 choice, the scary part of leaving drama school and having no work, auditioning for Hollyoaks in London, stealing joggers from Hollyoaks and getting caught with ‘Hollyoaks’ written across the arse of the joggers, nobody being safe in Soap Land, the crazy things you’re not allowed to show on TV, the superstar that auditioned for Hollyoaks and didn’t get it, refusing to include anything about covid in any media and Jess’ new writing project with Kieron Richardson.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Jessica Ellis

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Jessica's Instagram: @jellis1987

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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 theatre story, his drama teacher being star struck by him, not being good at maths, a ‘woke’ version of Shakespeare that Jordan auditioned for and working on Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Jordan Fry

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Jordan's Instagram: @jordanpaulfry

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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 way to acting - only your way.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Michael Harney

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Michael's Instagram: @michaelharney7

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Jordan Monks! We chat about doing three shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, forgetting lines, zoom Drama School, Jordan’s journey into acting, starting out as a welder and then moving on to be a civil engineer, character names, student loans, spotlight fees, learning to take care of yourself, preparing to do the full monty, vaping on stage, mum’s phoning agents, first Halloween costumes and why Jordan hates potatoes.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Jordan Monks

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

Jordan's Instagram: @jordanmonks_4

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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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, signing up to do stand-up comedy, navigating the invisible boundary of political correctness, getting dropped by agents, auditioning for Emmerdale, getting a new wardrobe from Emmerdale, working with Verity Rushworth, his acid attack storyline and soaps crossing over.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Michael Parr

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Michael's Instagram: @mikeparr226

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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, being guaranteed nothing, getting the role on Ackley Bridge, stealing from the Ackley Bridge set, imposter syndrome, having to do rugby training, acting with a real police officer and a possible Ackley Bridge and Waterloo Road crossover episode. 

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Fern Deacon

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Fern's Instagram: @fern_deacon

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Craig Mclean

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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: Ingram Noble 

Guest: Tracey Lynch 

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble 

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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 told, Daniel’s love for the Catherine Tate show and Little Britain, his amazing first meeting with Tina Fey, how he got his most famous role in mean girls and lots of behind-the-scenes stories from the famous film.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Daniel Franzese

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Daniel's Social Media: @whatsupdanny

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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, auditioning for Bard in the Botanic, our love for Catherine Tate, being in the new musical 'Orphans', being pregnant every time Louise gets a big job and acting students pretending to be dogs.  

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Louise McCarthy

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Louise's Instagram: @louisemccarthy1

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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 show, Dirty Water), on stage pranks, accosting theatre producers in petrol stations and the sacrifices you sometimes have to make.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: John Stuart

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

Links:

Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

John's Instagram: @johnstuart85

Drama School Dropout Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

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 Glasgow, we reminisce about Dinah Manoff’s great acting class story involving Tina Turner and two dobermans, John’s podcast Household Faces and we dissect some great pantomime stories in ‘Stage Right or Stage Shite?’

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: John Ross Bowie

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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John's Instagram: @johnrossbowie

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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, producing Dream Girls on the West End, the differences between American Graduates and British Graduates, being in Kick Ass 2 and lazy agents.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Amy Anzel

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Amy's Instagram: @amy_anzel

Amy's Twitter: @amyanzel

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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 opportunities; not the education, his new tv show ‘The Flats’, trying to navigate escaping the anxiety of being in one of the biggest TV shows in the UK whilst being instantly recognisable and accessible to the public on nights out and the person that took the wrong toiletry bag to work and ended up with no stage makeup and a dildo and some lube.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Ciarán Griffiths

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

Links:

Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble

Ciarán's Instagram: @ciarangriff83

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This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Chris Rankin! We chat about Harry Potter, the northern lights, Chelsea Lee Art, social media hate, having a £15,000 budget for a school show, our GCSE drama teacher, working with the best British actors on Potter, being a real life prefect and going on to play one of the most famous prefects, playing strip poker on stage and the joys of doing panto.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Chris Rankin

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Chris' Instagram: @cwrankin

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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, dropping out of college, the lack of camera classes in Drama School, the Hollyoaks audition process at fourteen years old, the legality of on screen marriages, rankings on pyramids and origami animals.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Sarah Jayne Dunn

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Sarah Jayne's Instagram: @sarahjaynedunn

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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 School show, dislocating my knee on stage and Fraser's dreams of acting opposite Timothée Chalamet.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Fraser Allan Hogg

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Fraser's Instagram: @fraserallanhogg

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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 Hollyoaks reunion on the set of EastEnders. 

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Charlie Wernham

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

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Charlie's Instagram & Twitter: @charliewernham

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