The Invisible Cabaret Podcast: Mental Health & The Arts

'Scars, Not Wounds' | Sanity, Sensitivity and Sobriety with Theatre Maker, GUY WOOLF


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This edition of our mental health and creativity flavoured podcast, we are joined by a stalwart friend of Invisible Cabaret: the multi-gifted, sickeningly talented Guy Woolf. Guy is an actor-director-composer-singer-advocate; you can see why he tends to go by 'theatre maker', just to save on hyphens. We chat with Guy about feeling his way through a career in the arts, checking and redressing privilege, and how his dog changed his life. Plus, Ferrero Rochelle and Rosie Verbose come unstuck whilst trying to make a furniture analogy, so look out for that.

Check out Represent Theatre and watch this space! And don't miss the play Guy is directing with the Manchester Jewish Museum: full details on Guy's Twitter.

Find out more about Guy via his website; read his bio on the Equity website. He is represented by United Agents.

CW: alcohol abuse & addiction behaviours (18:30 - 21:50); brief mention of medical trauma (19:00 - 19:35).

Some useful links for mental health issues mentioned in this episode: help with substance abuse here and here.

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Things mentioned in the podcast:

  • Episode with Bria
  • Bryony Kimmings, British live artist
  • Equity (you can hear more about how Equity helped troupe member Steph "Tootsie" De Whalley during lockdown in her episode)
  • Michelle Ashton, part of Equity Young Members Committee; find her on Twitter @chelle_ashton
  • Represent (Guy is Creative Director)
  • Lutheran bad-ass Nadia Bolz-Weber; see the original Tweet Guy references here
  • Heineken non-alcoholic beer (other 0% beers are available)
  • Dogs & mental health: Guardian article
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    Edited and mixed by Matt Ennis, www.mennismixing.co.uk

    Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod , available by license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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