Sarah Mayhew is an Actress, Co-Artistic Director of Old Trunk Theatre Company and Associate Artist at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch.

Sarah has had a wonderful career as a dancer, improviser and actress. Sarah was a major part of  improv troupe, Scared Scriptless for many years before becoming a Co-Artistic Director for Theatre Company Old Trunk that went on to have many successes with Playwright Sadie Hasler’s Pram Kicker and Fran and Leni that toured all over the UK. 

You can catch Sarah in television shows such as White Gold and PROFESSOR T and most recently Alfie Dale’s short film My Brother is a Mermaid that has been having huge success in the film festival circuit, including Hollyshorts, Leeds International Film Festival and IRIS Prize Winner for Best British Short just to name a few. 

Sarah is also very active with the Essex Girls Liberation Front, a group of women smashing the Essex Girl stereotype.

You can follow them on Instagram @essex_girls_liberation_front_

And you can follow Sarah on Instagram and Twitter @hewston

Kevin Brown is an actor / musician who also just so happens to be married to Emmy Award Winning Casting Director for 24, Debi Manwiller.

Kevin has been a working actor since the 80’s working with Keanu Reeves in Permanent Record to working on television shows such as Wicked City, Grey’s Anatomy, The Fix and Franklin & Bash. 

Kevin opens up about his decade long struggle with alcoholism and how he battled the addiction to start his life afresh and throw himself back into acting once again. 

In this interview Kevin also talks about what it is like being married to an Emmy Award Winning Casting Director and gives us insight from an  actors as well as casting director’s perspective. 

You can follow Kevin on Twitter @Beatlekevin

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Resources:

UK

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Hotlines:

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Zita Zutic Konak is a Casting Director for ET Casting having cast multiple commercials, films and music videos.

Zita has had a wonderful and very non linear journey to get to where she is right now. Starting out as a child actor in Serbia to making her way to the UK and studying at Kingston University and finding a passion in directing and pursuing that at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Before finding her love for casting Zita worked in a variety of fields including a floor runner to being Third Assistant Director on Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie. 

Every casting director is different with what they want and do not want to see, listen to Zita give her take on the:

• The audition process

• Actor preparation

• Her opinion on the self tape

Follow Zita on Twitter @zitazutic and keep up to date with casting calls from ET Casting at https://www.etcasting.com

* During the episode we talk about what makes a great self tape and how really there is no real right or wrong answer except good lighting, sound and that your face is visible. In the link below is the video I was trying to think of during the show*

Josh Hutcherson’s incredible Spider-Man audition that goes above and beyond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvCdfXozqF8

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 

Tamara Wilder is an actress performer who trained at The Royal School of Speech and Drama. Whilst pursuing acting Tamara has created an Award Winning Entertainment Company, Blackwatch Entertainment, www.blackwacthentertainment.co.uk. BWE devised and wrote the scripted drama elements for Channel 5's Celebrity Murder Mystery- which reached over 2.5 million people.

Blackwatch Entertainment has also created and hosted over 700 virtual shows for the UK & international markets as well as looking to develop a digital fully interactive product using AR/VR.

Listen to Tamara and I discuss the up’s and down’s of the acting pursuit since we left drama school. The casting pigeon holes and the wonderful reality of being an “older” actress, even though I feel like I’m still in my twenties.

Some os Tamara’s other credits include: Santander Commercial with Jessica Ennis and films for Channel 4 & ITV . Stage work includes roles for live immersive theatre shows for John Lewis, Microsoft, Hush Mayfair, Fox TV, HQ Theatres, Mercedes, Roche, Charlotte Tilbury & Leeds Castle.

Follow Tamara on Twitter @tamarawilder and on Instagram @tamarawilder-actor 

Follow Blackwatch Entertainment on Twitter and Instagram @blackwatchents

This week Lindsay interviews old class mate Alex Hafner. Hear all about Alex’s move from Europe to the States, and back to Europe again where, in the last couple of years Alex has really started to thrive as an actor. Of course there are ups and downs, scenes being cut, shows being put on hold due to Covid-19, but that is the life of an actor in general, you have to go with the flow. Find out how Alex has navigated his way so far.

You can catch Alex on Netflix’s Television show, Cable Girl’s, feature film, Submergence and The Mallorca Files on the BBC.

Follow Alex on Instagram and Twitter at both: @thealexhafner

Enjoy the episode.

This week Lindsay Lucas-Bartlett interviews former acting coach and longtime friend, Benjamin Byron Davis about his career so far. From what inspired Ben to choose a career in the arts, finding out his casting type and using it to his advantage to what flavor La Croix he is currently drinking.

And yes, you did hear that currently, I did go and see Ant Man and the Wasp just to see Agent Burleigh.

You can catch Ben in Greg McLean’s, The Belko Experiment, Peyton’s Reed, Marvel’s Ant Man and the Wasp and you can play him in Rockstar Games, Red Dead Redemption I & II as Dutch van der Linde.

You can follow Ben on Twitter @Tooda and Instagram at @BigBenDavis

Each week Actress / Writer Lindsay Lucas-Bartlett interviews creatives about their journeys so far, the highs and lows of pursuing a career in the arts industry.

This week Lindsay interviews old friend, British actress Katie Amess as they discuss Katie’s move from London to LA and embarrassing auditions and her time at the Geffen Playhouse.

Follow Katie Amess on Twitter @Katieamess and catch her on Criminal Minds: Across Borders and Bull.