Episode 10: Atri Banerjee - Theatre Director

10/14/20 • 61 min

In this week's episode we welcome Atri Banerjee to the podcast. Atri is a theatre director who won The Stage Debut Award for their direction of Hobson's Choice at the Royal Exchange Manchester in 2019. Since studying the MFA Directing course at Birkbeck they have worked on shows such as Jubilee at the Lyric Hammersmith, West Side Story and Happy Days at the Royal Exchange and The Son at the Kiln Theatre.
We chat about assistant directing, artistic inspirations and what it's like to direct revivals of classical works.
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Episode 9: Kwami Odoom - Actor, Theatremaker and Writer

This week we chat to actor, theatremaker and writer Kwami Odoom. Kwami trained with the National Youth Theatre's REP company in 2016, before going on to star in The Barbershop Chronicles, Half God of Rainfall, and BOYS. He is also a founding member of phyiscal theatre company The PappyShow.
In the episode we chat about training with NYT REP, how The Pappy Show work as a company, and collaborative working.
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Bonus Episode: Daniella and Joseph talk about theatre

In our end of series wrap-up, we chat about our own early careers, reflect on some of the wise words from our guests, and share some our favourite things about making the podcast.
Highlights include how we both accidentally became paid theatre reviewers, sharing favourite chaotic drama games and deciding what musical we would cast Carole Baskin in...any ideas what we went with!?
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Hooray - thanks to everyone for listening. Series 2 is coming soon!