Acting Inspired

Runyon Canyon hiking and Kevin Smith. Jumping into things head first and energy boosts from exercise and the beauty of the natural world!

Is this a self indulgent project?! 

Enjoy!

The first of the new year! Me and Kae chat about the new year and what we want to achieve, we talk super intense, success hungry folk and business cards.

This is the first of the series of my new style for the new year. ONE A DAY!

with occasional guests (theres a corker coming up)

I hope you like it! Muchos love! 

ENJOY!

This week I am chatting to Dan Baker House Manager and creative producer at the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth. We first met when I was 14 and have been friends ever since. Theatre brought us together and we are both still involved but in very different ways. Dan is doing a lot to increase the profile of fringe theatre in Plymouth and to help emerging artists from the South West progress. He's a sweet dude and very inspiring, hardworking and loves this theatre malarky. (sorry about the sound quality)

find him at...

@dan_baker83

http://www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/profiles/dan-baker/

ENJOY!

Melanie Fullbrook is one of three founding directors of We Are Go People. She is incredibly switched on and an absolute pleasure to chat to. She really is a "Go Person" and what she has started with this company is really really cool. Its a great listen with some really useful tips and advice. I know you will love this and find it very Inspiring!

ENJOY!

@wearegopeople

www.wearegopeople.com

Little bit different this week dudes! My girlfriend Kae Alexander and I spent a few days floating around Edinburgh as the festival began to wind down. We went to a few gigs we had booked and a lot of spontaneous drop ins as well and we had an awesome time! We talk about what worked and what didnt and how we were inspired by a whole city of people creating their own work! ENJOY!

Check out...

www.thegoodgriefproject.com 

www.tessawaters.com/#!womanz/cu08

www.arishaffir.com 

https://www.facebook.com/japaneseterminatollocky

kylekinane.comedydirect.com/

WOW, ok so this week is a little different! To celebrate a month of Acting Inspired we're going big! Its a full on inspirational 1 hour 45 mins!!! I KNOW! the chat was so good I just couldnt stop it even after making a couple of half hearted attempts so here it is. Dean talks about growing up as a mischievous kid in Kernow (Cornwall) and then realising what it is he wanted to do as he grew up. WHSmiths to NYT to Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat to Baloo the Bear to successful Actor/Producer/Director to fitness freak losing 7 Stone in 6 Months! I told you its a MONSTER! ENJOY!!!

@Deanonolan 

Measure for Measure

The Oresteia

www.trebigganproductions.com

This week we will be chatting with two wicked peeps! John Hoggarth and Ria Parry. John Talks about his Journey from starting out as an actor in school and the National Youth Theatre and making his way up the ranks until he became Co Artistic Director with Paul Roseby and what led to him leaving NYT and continuing as a brilliant theatre maker! and Ria Parry explains how she went from being SUPER shy kid at school, writing short stories to sell to the neighbours, to being a well known theatre director and now Mother! Together they run the theatre compamy "Iron Shoes" and we will find out how they got to this point and what acting and theatre means to them both. They are so cool and their little one joins us at the end as well! Good chats! Check out www.ironshoes.co.uk and follow them on twitter @iron_shoes @riaparry and @jfhoggarth ENJOY!

Tim Bowie, one of the co founders of Invertigo Theatre chats to me about the starting a company with his mates at drama school, sitting in a burger bar after a show and saying "we can do better than that!" and so Invertigo was born! He's a dude, and a pleasure to chat to. Check out invertigotheatre.co.uk and follow 'em on Twitter @InvertigoCo... Enjoy!

Talking to Sam Swann about taking on the role of producer on his own project! How it came about and what that has now lead to! Follow @samgswann on twitter and enjoy this 4th episode of Acting Inspired!!!