Jemima's career started at a young age, appearing in several films in the early '90s, as well as playing George in a TV adaptation of Enid Blyton's Famous Five.More recent screen credits include As If, Hex and Lost in Austen, and she made her Hollywood debut in The Black Dahlia, alongside Scarlett Johansson.On stage, her credits range from Her Nake…

This week's guest is Tony-nominee and Olivier Award-winner Jenna Russell.Russell's professional stage debut came in 1987 as an understudy for Eponine and Fantine in Les Miserables, a show she returned to as Fantine in 1991 and 2000. Her subsequent 30-year theatre career includes West End productions of Follies in 1987, Martin Guerre in 1998, Guys a…

This week's guest is Steffan Rhodri.Steffan's acting career spans twenty years on stage and screen. His West End theatre credits include Absent Friends, Posh, The Mentalists and This House. On TV he's known for roles in Gavin and Stacey, Apple Tree Yard and Under Milk Wood.He is currently starring in Tracy Letts' Killer Joe, running at Trafalgar St…

This week’s guest is Olivier Award nominee Clare Foster.Clare’s notable stage credits include the original West End cast of Avenue Q, Maria Friedman’s smash-hit production of Merrily We Roll Along at the Menier and in the West End, Guys and Dolls at Chichester Festival Theatre and Travesties at the Menier and West End, for which she was nominated f…

This week’s guest is artistic director of Curve Leicester, Nikolai Foster.Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Nikolai grew up in North Yorkshire and trained at Drama Centre London.As a director his credits include Calamity Jane at the Watermill, Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing at the Arts Theatre, Merrily We Roll Along at Theatr Clwyd, Flashdance and An…

This week's guest is Olivier Award-nominated actress Laura Pitt-Pulford.A graduate of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Laura's notable stage roles include Maria in The Sound of Music and Nancy in Oliver!, both at Curve, Leicester. The Light Princess at the National Theatre, Side Show at Southwark Playhouse, Flowers for Mrs Harris at Sheffield Cru…

This week's guest is stage and screen actor Alfred Molina.On screen, his credits include Raiders of the Lost Ark, Boogie Nights, Frida and Spider-Man 2.In 1980, he earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best Newcomer in Oklahoma! at the Palace Theatre, and his stage roles since then include Speed the Plow at the National in 1989, Yasmina Reza's Art…

This week's guest is the Olivier and Tony Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens.A mainstay of London's new writing theatre, the Royal Court where he is now associate playwright, Stephens' work with the Sloane Square venue includes Bluebird, Herons, Nuclear War and Birdland. Elsewhere his critically acclaimed plays include Sea Wall, which premiere…

This week’s guest is cabaret star, drag artist and actor Le Gateau Chocolat.With a wealth of experience across contemporary opera, cabaret and theatre, his solo shows have seen him perform in venues from London’s Menier Chocolate Factory to the Adelaide Fringe.He has worked with the Olivier Award–winning circus acts La Clique and La Soiree and alon…

This week's guest is Olivier Award-winner Nancy Carroll.After graduating from LAMDA in 1998, her first job saw her star alongside Cate Blanchett and Rupert Everett in the big screen adaptation of Wilde's An Ideal Husband.In 2010 she won an Olivier Award for her performance in After the Dance at the National Theatre, and more recent stage credits in…

This week's guest is Tony and Olivier Award nominee Kate Fleetwood.Growing up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Kate began her career as a child actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company.In 2010 she played Lady Macbeth in Chichester Festival Theatre's production of the Scottish play, gaining a Tony Award nomination for the show's Broadway transfer. 2015 saw h…

This week’s guest is the WhatsOnStage Award-winning Actor Trevor Dion Nicholas.Born and raised in West Virginia, USA, he made his professional stage debut in a touring production of Big River. His subsequent stage credits include Super Fly: The Musical, Ragtime, Into The Woods and The Wiz. In 2016 he crossed the pond to make his West End debut as t…

This week’s guest is actress Gina Beck. Gina’s big break came in 2008 when she joined the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera as Christine Daee.Her subsequent theatre credits include the West End productions of Wicked, Les Miserables and Show Boat.Gina’s current role finds her back in the West End as Miss Honey in Dennis Kelly an…

This week's guest is the artistic director of the Bush Theatre, Madani Younis.A year after joining the Bush Theatre in 2012 he programmed the theatre's most successful season to date, which saw the theatre play to 99% capacity. In 2016 he led a major redevelopment of the theatre which was completed last year and includes a second studio space for t…

In this week's episode we speak with Drew McOnie, one of the most in-demand director-choreographers in British theatre.McOnie’s choreography credits include Bugsy Malone, Hairspray, Jesus Christ Superstar and In the Heights – for which he won the 2016 Olivier Award for Best Choreography.As both director and choreographer, his credits include The Wi…

In 2010 Dawn Walton founded Eclipse Theatre Company, the UK’s foremost black-led national production company. Recent touring productions include One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, Sizwe Banzi is Dead and A Raisin in the Sun.Last year, Eclipse announced the first UK tour to come out of Revolution Mix, its ground-breaking movement placing the black narra…

After graduating from Rose Bruford in 2001 Rosalie Craig joined the RSC and made her professional debut in Adrian Mitchell’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.Her stage career since then has featured leading roles in both plays and musicals including the National Theatre productions of London Road, As You Like It, and Tori Amos’s The Light Princess…

Three-time SAG Award winner Lesley Nicol has no shortage of incredible parts to her name, including the starring role of Beryl Patmore in Downton Abbey.She also appeared in the West End production of Mamma Mia! from 2000 to 2002, and the original stage production of East is East in 1996. She now comes to the Donmar Warehouse, where she appears in t…

In 2005 this week's guest opened a theatre on the site of an abandoned warehouse. 13 years later, the Menier Chocolate Factory is one of the most revered producing theatres in the world.With critically acclaimed plays including Caryl Churchill's A Number and Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, sitting snuggly alongside smash hit musicals like Sunday in t…

This week's guest is one of the most prolific British playwrights of the last ten years. Since the premiere of his critically acclaimed This House at the National Theatre in 2012, James Graham's further successes include Privacy and The Vote at the Donmar Warehouse and Finding Neverland, a collaboration with Gary Barlow on Broadway.In 2017, three o…