In The Frame: Theatre Interviews from West End Frame

Welcome to In The Frame, a new podcast series from West End Frame!

Every week we’ll be putting a different theatrical name in the frame to discuss exciting projects, career highlights, incredible stories and lots, lots more.

Episodes are set to drop on Fridays, so hit subscribe to ensure you don’t miss an episode.

Make sure you also check out our other podcast, The West End Frame Show, to stay up-to-date with the latest theatre news, show talk and Broadway gossip...

Keith finished second on the BBC’s reality show Any Dream Will Do in 2007 and went on to play both the Narrator and Joseph in the UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. 

Keith's other theatre credits include Only The Brave, Sincerely Mr Toad, HMS Pinafore and Forever Plaid as well as numerous pantomimes.

He has also released four albums and regularly performs concerts, with Edinburgh & London dates coming up this Christmas...

Oliver's theatre credits include playing Fiyero in Wicked (10th Anniversary Cast) and Gideon in Sting's musical The Last Ship (Toronto).

Oliver played Rum Tum Tugger in the UK tour of Cats and understudied Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre. He has also been in Les Misérables, Mamma Mia, Monkee Business, Knights Of The Rose and Company...

After being unable to afford drama school, Shanay Holmes had an incredible journey into musical theatre.

In this episode of In The Frame, Shanay tells the story of how she got her agent, discusses her experience in the music industry including her time on The X Factor and talks about her current role as Laura in the UK premiere of High Fidelity at the Turbine Theatre at Battersea Power Station...

Last summer Fabian Aloise received huge acclaim for choreographing Evita at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, working alongside director Jamie Lloyd.

Originally from Canada, Fabian trained as a ballet dancer in Melbourne, Australia but - after being told he wouldn't make it as a ballet dancer - pursued a career in musical theatre. After working as a performer, Fabian began also working as an assistant, associate and resident choreographer...

“I remember coming out of college and going to my first agent meeting. I said to him ‘I want to be a leading man by the time I’m 25’ and he just openly laughed in my face. But I proved him wrong… I did it when I was 23. I’m still pinching myself.”

Joel Harper-Jackson is currently playing Charlie Price in the UK tour of Kinky Boots...

"The day I found out I was nominated for an Olivier I worked a double shift at a restaurant. I was cleaning tables and taking people's dirty plates away... but at the same time you think 'well, I have two Olivier nominations at the age of 23 - it swings in roundabouts!'"

Charlotte Wakefield is currently playing Miss Windsor in the RCS's new musical The Boy in the Dress at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon...

Will In The Heights return to London? Why has Next To Normal never been staged in the UK? How do you go about opening a new theatre? This week Paul Taylor-Mills is In The Frame!

Paul is a theatre producer; his recent productions have included the West End production of Heathers which is about to launch a UK tour and the London premiere of In The Heights. A few of his other recent productions have included Honest Amy, Side Show and The Last 5 Years...

Ben shares some incredible stories about about Julie Andrews, Idina Menzel, Caissie Levy, Bernadette Peters + more!

Benjamin Rauhala is Jeremy Jordan’s musical director and has accompanied Jeremy for all his London concerts over the past few years, including a recent run of sold out shows at Cadogan Hall.

He is the co-creator and ‘Fairy Godfairy’ of the Broadway Princess Party concert series, which has seen a host of Broadway's biggest stars perform across the U.S...

Danielle Hope discusses moving to the US, sustaining a varied career & returning to the West End to star in White Christmas.

In 2010, Danielle won Andrew Lloyd Webber’s reality show Over The Rainbow, landing the part of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium...