Drama School Dropout

This week on Drama School Dropout, I’m joined by the brilliant Ty McPhee! We chat River City, Shakespeare, drama school, Firewater Thursdays, auditioning for Trainspotting 2 with Danny Boyle, working on stage versus screen, The Naked Neds, and River City’s final episode being written by Johnny McKnight. We also get into what it’s like working with your real-life best friend, farting on set, pre-show rituals, and what it means for Scottish audiences to lose our national soap.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Ty McPhee

Links:

Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

Ty's Instagram: @tymcphee_

Get your tickets for The Naked Neds: www.thenakedneds.com

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This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Olivia Caw! We chat about Common Tongue and being crowned the Queen of the Fringe to studying at East 15, volunteering in South Africa and working in call centres. We also get into street performance, consensual waterboarding, on-stage nudity and where the boundaries lie between actors and audience members.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Olivia Caw

Links:

Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

Olivia's Instagram: @oliviacaw

Get your tickets for PALS: https://www.dundeefringe.com/events/pals/

Get your tickets for The Naked Neds: www.thenakedneds.com

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, George Miller! We chat about Tip Toe, being inspired by Dr Who, the absurdities of drama school, learning to not apologise for things you can’t change, playing far right characters, working with Russell T. Davies, sitting next to Paul Rhys at the Tip Toe table read, accidentally trying to audition for a ballet show, the technicalities of filming such an angry state of the nation piece, our favourite lines of dialogue, some Masterchef shit and The Naked Neds.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: George Miller

Links:

Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

George's Instagram: @ge0rgemiller

Get your tickets for The Naked Neds now: www.thenakedneds.com

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Éimi Quinn! We chat about the financial realities of being a working class actor, writing for A Play, A Pie and A Pint, creating your own work, the power of bragging, arts funding, humping bins, on stage nudity mishaps, our writing complexes, pivoting from studying business and law to a career in the performing arts and auditioning to write for SNL.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Éimi Quinn

Links:

Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

Éimi's Instagram: @its_eimi

Get your tickets for The Naked Neds now: www.thenakedneds.com

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Jennifer Neil! We chat about Glasgow Kiss at the Pavilion Theatre, those new lids on coke bottles, post show blues, the realities of producing theatre, going to the same primary school, auditioning for dance school, going to drama school in London, Jennifer living on her own in London, not loving the city, the realities of casting, being a mainstay in The Pavilion Theatre pantomime, The Naked Neds, playing the hydro and the habits we’re losing in 2026.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Jennifer Neil

Links:

Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

Jennifer's Instagram: @jen_neil

Get your tickets for The Naked Neds now: www.thenakedneds.com

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Lucia Ireland! We chat about muggle jobs, taking a show to the fringe, auditioning, playing Sonny in Grease, auditioning for Drama Schools, adjusting to living on campus, pretending to do puppy yoga, taking a show to the fringe months after graduation, the difficulty of finding good parts for women, creating feminist theatre, writing and expanding on our previous works, performing to five people and the roles we’re manifesting for each other.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Lucia Ireland

Links:

Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

Lucia's Instagram: @luciacatex

Get your tickets for The Naked Neds now: www.thenakedneds.com

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Lucian Burlingame! We chat about playing the Pavilion Theatre this month, tour gossip, how going to the fringe festival helped us get to the next level, the moment our venue lost power during the fringe, dealing with hecklers, taking The Naked Neds back to my home town, our favourite tour moments, Lucian’s recent surgery, my play being stocked in Waterstones, stripping on stage and the development of The Naked Neds.

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Lucian Burlingame

Links:

Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

Lucian's Instagram: @lucianb3008

Get your tickets for The Naked Neds now: www.thenakedneds.com

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Ross Baxter! We chat about The Naked Neds at The Pavilion Theatre, learning to slow down, starting out as a dancer, losing out to main roles at an early age, manifesting going to the Conservatoire from an early age, living in the party flat, my teeth fear, learning to open your horizons, always playing a policeman, Still Game Live: The Final Farewell, performing at The Hydro, The Restless Natives tour, knowing that a rejection isn’t the end of an audition journey, Ross’ own cabaret Drive Official, Funeral For My Boobs, Glee, The High Life with Alan Cumming, Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande, awful student panto stories and our favourite venues to perform in.

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Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Ross Baxter

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

Links:

Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

Ross' Instagram: @rossjbaxter

Get your tickets for The Naked Neds now: www.thenakedneds.com

Get your tickets for The High Life: https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/the-high-life

Get your tickets for Funeral for My Boobs: https://playpiepint.com/whats-on/event/funeral-for-my-boobs/

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Jacqueline Boatswain! We chat about Shameless, lockdown life, working during the pandemic, being a geriatric dancer at the age of eleven, training at The Royal Academy of Dance, working as a commercial dancer, being in the original West End cast of Chicago, the joy of Shameless, Viola Davis, Hollyoaks and being sidelined, the kneecap film, wearing a nappy on stage, being cast as Fagin and then proceeding to get a full mouth of veneers, accent work and Glasgow being the new New York.

Submit your story for Stage Right or Stage Shite: https://forms.gle/1p296t4Uu1F1XVvN9

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Jacqueline Boatswain

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

Links:

Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

Jacqueline's Instagram: @jacqui_boats

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing, Ned Cooper! We chat about The Full Monty, going to a secondary school with a specialism in performing arts, the SAG strike, not drinking hot drinks, animal studies, student nights being on a Thursday, the expectation vs the reality of third year at Drama School, not being Barbara Windsor, being nicknamed the council estate chav, misprints in a drama school showcase programme, having your career connect to your family and childhood, filming self-tapes and our favourite things about our job.

Submit your story for Stage Right or Stage Shite: https://forms.gle/1p296t4Uu1F1XVvN9

Host: Ingram Noble

Guest: Ned Cooper

Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble

Links:

Ingram's Instagram: @ingramnoble

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout