On this podcast I will be interviewing performers and colourful creatures from the entertainment world (actors, ballet dancers, drag queens and creative souls) and we'll be making you laugh as my guests and I regale you with our funniest on-stage moments, embarrassing audition experiences, devastating rehearsal room travesties, hilarious drama school memories, not to forget, all the random jobs we put ourselves through in order to survive whilst we are ...."resting". Hosted by Joseph Raisi-Varzaneh
This week I had the privilege of speaking to multi faceted, multi dimensional, multi talented human being River Roux!
I saw River's show 'Juice' at the Volksbühne Theatre in Berlin and I instantly wan…
This week Sam and I take a trip down memory lane.
We discuss drama school memories, switching from acting to becoming a successful writer and the birth of Femme, Sam and Ng Choon Ping's BAFTA nominate…
West End veteran Adrian Hansel regales us with tales from his long and varied career. We talk about some sensitive issues so there is a trigger warning with this episode but Adrian gives us an exciti…
On this episode I speak with dancer, choreographer, movement specialist extraordinaire Jordan James Bridge
We chat everything from his career at Wayne McGregor, aspects of collaboration and choreogra…
This week...my old friend Emrhys Cooper and I sit in a park and shoot the shit!
I love this interview, it's candid and free and Em really opens up about his journey from when we met at Ballet school 2…
In this week's episode I travelled to the seaside to chat with the super talented Amy Lennox!
We chat about everything from her drama school training, staying in questionable diggs, heartbreak, shitt…
Finally back with Season 2 of 'Performer Trauma'
Kicking off the season after a two year hiatus I have the pleasure of speaking with a personal creative icon, Olivier Award winning MBE Edward Watson. …
On this episode I have the pleasure of catching up with stage sensation and old old friend Holly James.
A love letter from Broadway to London
Holly truly is lightening on stage, you literally cannot ta…
On this episode it is my honour to have Selina Mosinski, the actress behind Charity Shop Sue stop by for a chat!
We chat about all the roads that led to her finding her Sue family, finding creative f…
Joining me this week is drag superstar Willam Belli !
Actor, drag sensation, author, recording artist, make up creator... the list goes on
On this ep I speak to Willam about the origins of his drag, wo…
On this stunning ep I speak to creative mogul that is Sarah Blanc
We uncover the origins of her Jason Donovan obsession which led to her creating a whole show about the aussie dreamboat, being a maste…
On this stunning episode I speak to the gorgeous Angie Bell
We met many moons ago in an unnamed institution, in an unmentioned decade.
Since then ,Angie has come a very long way and taken a very unconv…
On this weeks ep I speak to stunning drag Queen and performer Ella Veryde
We find out the origins of that filthy name, my drag name... though I haven't done drag,how she got bent over in a duck costum…
Today actor Tom Varey recants us with some entertaining moments
We cover actor training , his new film directed by one of the last proper ‘movie stars’ in Hollywood and he remembers holding a piece …
On this ep I speak to talented Aussie dancer Jackson Fisch.
Jackson recalls being called ‘pudgy’ at ballet school, fainting on stage and working in a bougie pyjama shop!
Jackson is in London rehears…
On episode 7 I speak to the gorgeous Eliza Butterworth.
Eliza remembers when a local taxi rank radio interfered with her west end show 'The Windsors' on stage, wearing flesh coloured jeans in a Shake…
On this episode I interview actor Jake Mitchell
We reminisce over 'armed combat' classes and what can go wrong when you lose grip of a prop...mid show !
We remember our scene study classes for Ibsen's…
This week I speak to writer and actor Benjamin Salmon.
We talk about never fitting into the proverbial 'box', being told to change our voices and we look back with a fondness at how annoying we were!
I…
On this episode I speak to actress Emily Johnstone.
We laugh and reminisce over gnome auditions, her sharing a bed with a stranger at the Edinburgh Festival, forgetting lines on stage at the RSC and r…
On this episode I interview Gary Wood.
We discuss everything from how we met rehearsing a zombie movie, an embarrassing Mama Mia audition, RSC 'workshops" and finding happiness carving out new careers…