This episode of Everyone Theatre features Michelle Flower, co-founder and organiser of the Camden Fringe Theatre Festival. Listen to her discuss how the Camden Fringe came into existence, why you should never accept the first price when it comes to West End tickets, and how more and more venues are using popular culture to attract new audiences.

In this podcast we speak to actor Jamie Nichols. After working for several years in a regular office job, Jamie was cast in Gutted at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. This has allowed him to venture back into the theatrical industry. We spoke to him about his next role - the legendary Harry Houdini.

In this episode of Everyone Theatre, hear Dawn Reid, Deputy Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal Stratford East, speak about how important it is for venues to work with their local communities, why audiences need to feel like they can be themselves at the theatre, and why her theatre allows people to use Twitter during performances.

Everyone Theatre is a series of interviews with leading theatre practitioners in London. It’s their chance to make the case for getting into theatre, on either side of the curtain. Listen to the podcast using the player below, subscript to the series on iTunes, or read through the transcript below. Please feel free to leave comments at the bottom of the page! This podcast series aims to look for ways to involve more and more people in theatre, either as ...

This week, we were able to speak to Daniel Goldman, founder of Tangram Theatre company and organiser of the CASA Latin American Theatre festival, which takes place in London and hosts leading companies from South and Central America in their native language.

Sticking with our theme of interviewing a whole host of different people, this week we are delighted to publish an interview with Miriam O’Keeffe, the Director of the BBC Performing Arts Fund.

With all due respect, Tom Copley, a London-wide London Assembly Member for the Labour Group in City Hall, is not really a ‘leading theatre practitioner’! However, Tom is running a GLA investigation into the challenges faced by small theatres in London.

This Everyone Theatre interview is with Marianne Dicker, an Assistant Producer for the National Theatre. The publically funded NT has been behind some of the best and most exciting productions that we have ever seen.

Jasmine Cullingford is the current Artistic Director of the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell. She worked at the Orange Tree Theatre and the Theatre Royal Stratford East before she rose through the ranks of the Blue Elephant Theatre to eventually become the Artistic Director in 2009.

Paterson Joseph has played leading roles in the major producing theatres throughout the UK, including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Exchange Theatre and has won London Fringe and TMA Best Actor awards