Meet Tehmina Sunny, British, Indian and American. Her charm, wit & curiosity makes her an actor’s actor, a director’s actor and a crew’s actor. She has portrayed memorable characters in Emmy award winning TV shows, Golden Globe nominated productions & Oscar winning movies. But really, Tehmina Sunny is the same little girl that once dreamed of one day acting. Not for the fame, but because as an actress she is a storyteller.

Born in London, her passion for the arts was developed at an early age. She received a scholarship for playing the violin, Viola and piano. With no previous training she was a finalist for the BBCs cross-country search for acting talent.

Sunny put her artistic dreams aside and attended the University of Leeds in England, where she studied Business Information Systems with an emphasis on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. This combined with marketing and business studies earned her a Bachelor of Science degree with honors. After graduating, she worked for Richard Branson’s Virgin corporation. But soon after a UK acting agent persuaded her to embark in the entertainment industry as an actress.

Tehmina’s career began in the Oscar winning movie ‘Children of Men’, working with award winning director Alfonso Cuaron & actors Michael Caine, Clive Owen & Julianne Moore. Continuing on to ‘Argo’ with Ben Affleck.

On the small screen, she has portrayed a retrospective of characters in Emmy award winning & Golden Globe nominated productions including, CBS’s Training Day with the late Bill Paxton, NCIS, CSI, Fox’s 24: Live Another Day & The Following with Kevin Bacon. Aaron Sorkins The Newsroom on HBO, ABC’s Mistresses & CW’s Sci-fi show Pandora. Sunny is currently recurring on NBC’s Primetime show, ‘Chicago Med’.

Go follow Tehmina on Instagram and Twitter @tehminasunny

Anthony Mark Barrow is an actor, director and coach originally from Birmingham currently based in Los Angeles, California. Knowing he wanted to pursue a career in the arts from an early age Anthony took the plunge and started training at the prestigious drama school, East 15. After not being able to afford the expensive tuition fee’s Anthony auditioned and got offered a place at The Central School of Speech and Drama at his audition.

After many successful theatre runs Anthony moved to Los Angeles where he has had many successes over the years including directing, working in audio books and most recently working with David Fincher on his new project.

We discuss the craft of acting, family, and Anthony’s experience of how resting on his laurels cost him work.

You can follow Anthony on Instagram @anthonymarkbarrow and on Twitter @antoniousmarcus

Sabra May is an actress, voiceover artist, writer, improviser, and standup comedian. She currently co-produces the all female standup show Comedy Stew in West Hollywood. She has also written and performed two one-woman shows. The most recent, titled The Creature, was performed while 8 months pregnant. Sabra has completed the improv and musical improv programs at Upright Citizen’s Brigade and is currently on the musical improv team The B-Side.

Sabra has also voiced thousands of commercials across all platforms as well as video games, technical and medical narrations, and animated works. The client list is so extensive, Nike, intel, Microsoft, Nintendo are just a few and voices a character on Cyberpunk.

Sabra has an extensive theatrical background and has worked with Anne Bogart and SITI Company and has studied at Warner Loughlin Studios. She is a fan of immersive theatre and is a co-founder of the Action/Adventure Theatre company in her hometown of Portland, Oregon

Listen to Sabra and I discuss the world of stand up comedy, creating shows that women will have a safe space to perform and not get sexually harassed or discriminated against, motherhood and our love for Grey’s Anatomy.

You can follow Sabra on Instagram and Twitter @sabramay

Listen to how Cassie Lauren Lewis grew up performing in Wales, moved to New York City at eighteen to then return to England to attend a drama University to the head back State side to pursue her career goals. 

No one’s path is ever the same and it is usually far from easy but taking risks and those leaps of faith, as scary as they maybe at the time, really can pay off. 

Listen to some fun Craigslist stories, how important it is to be “ready” for when the opportunities start come flooding in  and why it is important to not put time limits on yourself or your career. 

Cassie has some great advice for actors and how important being in a class is. Listen for more advice and fun stories. 

You can follow Cassie on Instagram @cassielaurenlewis 

If you are anything like me and love singing but are absolutely terrified to sing in front of others then this is a must listen. 

Meet Tara Wallace, singer and owner of The Hummingbird Conservatory. 

Founder and voice teacher Tara Wallace is in her 25th year of singing training and began the Hummingbird Conservatory with two objectives – provide singers with excellent vocal technique and musicianship while giving them ample performance opportunities and collaborative experiences with other musicians and performers.

The Hummingbird Conservatory is a music school dedicated to the training and development of singers of all ages, with all levels of ability and training across all genres.  We seek to provide conservatory-level training in a warm, wonderful, creative atmosphere fostering not just musical abilities but leadership skills, confidence and discipline.

Find out how Tara navigated her way through the pandemic with teaching and also valuable bale advice for aspiring singers out there.

You can find out more about Tara and The Hummingbird Conservatory here:

http://www.thehummingbirdconservatory.com/home-1.html

Follow her on Instagram @thehummingbirdconservatory

Head over to Miss Tara’s Youtube Channel, MISS TARA THE HUMMINGBIRD

And you can catch Tara on Twitch here:

https://www.twitch.tv/singwithme2020

Helen Kennedy is a British actress, writer and voice over artist who originates from Dorset and is based in Los Angeles. Helen is a professional member of BAFTA LA and is an emerging name in the video game world too having voiced several characters for the World Of Warcraft Shadowlands 2020 release and Racoon Lagoon (Oculus).

Helen trained at Bretton Hall and has had wonderful success ever since. Not only is Helen a wonderful actress she also creates her own work drawing from personal experiences. Whore Table #6 is a hilarious comedy short Helen wrote that has been wildly popular in the film festival circuit including HBO Women In Comedy FF, the Oscar Qualifying Hollyshorts, Mammoth FF 2020 and was shortlisted for the Funny Women UK Awards 2019.

Most recently Helen wrote and performed in Wasted Seed a short based on the grueling affects IVF treatment can have on both parties in the relationship.

You can follow Helen on Twitter @helenkennedy1 and Instagram @helenkennedyturner1 

This weeks guest is best known for his role on Hollyoaks, Freddie Roscoe, Charlie Clapham. Charlie started performing at a young age, attended Sylvia Young Theatre School in London and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before landing the role of Freddie Roscoe on Hollyoaks where he spent the next five years working. 

Charlie moved to Los Angeles after leaving the show and has had may successes since being in Los Angeles and has recently been writing two pilots as well as producing and acting in short film Velvet that has been having great success in the film festival circuit. 

Here all about Charlie’s adventures, what its like moving to Los Angeles as well as working at his parents tattoo and piercing shop, Kazbah back in Leicester, England. 

You can watch Velvet on AmazonPrime and you can follow Charlie on Instagram @charlieclapham91 and on Twitter @charlieclapham 

Meet Lindsay Perry, the wearer of all of the hats, actress, writer, producer, director, gymnast and content creator. Lindsay most recently finished shooting feature film Hide and Seek with director Joel David Moore and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers that just got picked up at Berlin Film Festival. Lindsay has worked on all sides of the industry as well as helping start up production company Balcony 9 before Covid-19 shut the industry down.

Lindsay wrote and performed in Short film, Swing Night that has been viewed over 1,000,000 times on YouTube and had a successful run in the festival circuit. 

Lindsay spent many years at The Pit in New York City writing and performing sketch comedy as well as being a regular performer at The Upright Citizen Brigade in NYC.

Lindsay appeared in Red Dead Redemption II and Grand Theft Auto as a Motion Capture Performer and Voice Over Artist and can be seen on the  TV show The Affair. 

Keep up with Lindsay on Instagram @lindsayaperry 

Meet the man behind the page @supportbritish on Twitter, John Craggs. John trained at The Birmingham School of Speech and Drama and has been an actor for over thirty years performing in numerous plays, commercials, and most recently during lockdown rehearsed readings of Dracula and Winter’s Tale and the man of many quotes. “We are all responsible for each other” - Glady’s Irwin. John has so many words of wisdom and is truly wonderful in bringing the acting community together.

Listen to how John’s mother was a profound influence in John’s life and career and how simple things like taking a walk can clear your mind and hit a reset button. 

You can watch all of the rehearsed readings online here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpw8CGobk2n4Tap_w-G6u_A

And you can follow John’s wonderful acting community:

@supportbritish

And John’s personal account:

@johncraggsactor 

In this Bonus episode of Tea Time With Lindz, even though it is a short one it is jam packed full of story time goodness.

Listen to Erron Jay as he tells us all about the highs and lows of his creative journey so far.

Erron was born In Kansas City, Missouri and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theatre Performance from Missouri State. After four years and only one play later Erron auditioned and got accepted into DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. 

After spending six years in Chicago Erron made the move to Los Angeles, with less than $400 to his name. Listen to how Erron navigated his way in LA, booking pilots and commercials to sleeping in his car when rent was not an option. 

You can catch Erron on Lucifer, No Good Nick, and many more. 

Erron Jay is currently looking for a kidney donor and you can find out all the details here:

www.gofundme.com/f/kidney4erronjay

Go follow Erron on social media on Twitter @erronjay and on Instagram @erronjay

Hannah Whiteoak is a British Actress, Producer and Voice Over artist living in LA trained in Motion Capture, you can catch Hannah in Pride and Prejudice Cut, Military Wives, Accidentally in Love that comes out this Christmas and catch her voice in commercials such as Xbox and Video Games, Hand of Fate 2 and The Elder Scrolls Legends: The Fall of the Dark brotherhood.

This week you can listen to Hannah and I talk about the importance of not being a dick on set, what it’s like working as a gaffer whilst also pursuing acting, and it’s never too early to start on the Mezcal, it’s five’o’clock somewhere right?

Follow on Instagram @hannahblakewahiteoak2015