Acting Inspired

I tell you all about my stresses of being a lazy, unorganised bum... I realise that taking a show to Edinburgh costs... a HELL of a lot of money...  I think it would be wise for me to learn how to be organised now!  And we have a special 1 minute AI takeover with an old AI Fave!  ENJOY!!!

The newest member of the Acting Inspired famalam, Joe Eyre, talks to me about Joyous Gard, creating a Theatre company being a producer, writer, casting director and an actor on something completely different... all at the same time!  Joe was such a great guest to chat with, we had a couple of interruptions, however, we kept calm and carried the fuck on!  Make sure you catch Joe performing in Gallowglass http://www.middlegroundtheatre.co.uk/Wordpress/gallowglass/ Catch Joyous Gard's final production at this year's Vault Festival TIMOTHY on in the Studio from 14th - 18th March https://www.joyousgardtheatre.com/  @GardJoyous @eyre_joe @betheyre  ENJOY!

Yo Yo Yo! Filmed myself today going through the motions of recording an episode of the pod, I also filmed a rundown of the equipment I use and some other lil tidbits for my future Acting Inspired patrons! I will keep you posted but keep an eye out for the Patreon page, join the Acting Inspired podcast community and get access to exclusive content, bonus episodes, tickets to comedy shows and loads more cool stuff!  Edinburgh is freaking me out, but on the plus side, It's not the creative element that is scaring me, its the MONEY!!!  Also, I went back to Guildhall to help my movement teacher work out a game from a set of instructions shes had for 20 years. IT WAS AWESOME!!! I wanna go back!  There will be comedy shows soon, I will let you know exactly when very soon.  Email me - lewisgoody@gmail.com whatever you like, or an AI take over!  ENJOY!!!

I chat with Rintaro about his audition for the Arts Ed 6th form course. I give a wee update on the Edinburgh situation. And Dísa Andersen takes over the pod with her own Acting Inspired episode. Dísa has a show on called: Is This Thing On, at The Old Red Lion, 26th - 31st March 2018. you can follow her @lattelepjandi on Twitter and check out her website www.disaandersen.com.  If you would like to take over the show for 10 minutes to tell us what you're up to and how you deal with being a creative person. Record it on your phone or however you can record sound. Start with "welcome to another... with me YOUR NAME HERE!" and send it over to me: lewis@actinginspired.com ENJOY!

Lewis gives an update on his latest adventure... Creating a show for Edinburgh... actually no, for himself! WANKY ALERT!  He chats through his ups and downs and changing his perspective of the so-called downs and viewing them, instead, as minor blips... this helps.  FREEDOM! ENJOY!!!  happy love day and all that!

Last time we were recording a pod (2 years ago) we were hiking up Runyon Canyon in the sun talking about East Asian representation in the industry. Has anything changed? Has progress been made? What is the state of that situation now?  We also chatted about his production of YELLOW FACE which he starred in and produced back in 2013. Now, in 2018 he is back in the producer's seat with a great new play at The Park Theatre - THERE OR HERE. We chat about balancing production with acting and how doing one effects the other.  WE HAVE A DISCOUNT CODE FOR "THERE OR HERE" AT THE PARK THEATRE! Enter: INSPIRED to knock a couple of quid off tickets until the matinee on February 15th. get your tickets here www.parktheatre.co.uk THERE OR HERE is playing at The Park Theatre until 17th February 2018  Jennifer Maisel’s poignant comedy follows the journey of Robyn and Ajay; when illness prevents them from having a child of their own, they return to India – the country of Ajay’s birth – to outsource their pregnancy. As they

Paloma is back to update us on her journey!  Paloma has been busy since we last spoke and good lordy does she have some tales and work to prove it! She has gone from the timid assistant on her secondment at the Lyric Hammersmith to bold and brave associate taking TERROR all the way to Australia... During that time she wrote a play called STUD about a gay footballer and now it's about to open at the Vaults Festival at The Network Theatre. My mind, body and soul is BLOWN! She is the embodiment of inspiring and happens to be hilarious at the same time!  ENJOY!!! https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/stud/ @PalomaOakenfold @LiamFrankBergin #STUDplay “There are currently no openly gay or bi players at any level of male professional football in Britain.” Stonewall Tom’s sixteen. His family home is falling apart. His mum has left and his depressed Dad can’t pay the bills. The only light in Tom’s life is football: He lives it and breathes it. Going pro is Tom’s chance to make life better, for everyone…. But Tom

Its a late one today as I was attempting to prevent a cold. I didnt prevent it...  I also talk about how Im terrified of everything but most of all, at the moment, Edinburgh! but it does lift me spirits havin' a good ol' yarn about it all! 

A while ago I did a pod called "my first movie" from the beach in Ibiza. Almost a year later and here I am at the Premiere of my first movie in the freezing cold and snowy Warsaw, Poland. Tonight I will wear a suit and pretend that I live a glamorous life flying from place to place attending many premieres of many films... tomorrow, I will have a hangover and land at Heathrow looking for my limo wondering how I just experienced such a crazy event!  HAHA! Its all fun and games after a sombre couple of weeks but I'm back and ready to go. I chat about culling friends, managing the workload and go on about 20-minute sessions of work being beneficial or something?!?!?!?  Thanks again for all the support at the beginning of this year. Big Love!  ENJOY!!!

This week I am down in Devon looking out for my fam as we lose an awesome dude.  So instead of getting everyone on a downer again... I was a guest on The 42 Podcast a wee while ago and I meant to put this up then... No excuses, just didnt... finally I have managed to get my hands on it and get it out to you.  Vittorio Angelone is a musician studying at Guildhall and hes switching to the dark side and while hes doing that hes chatting to great people and running comedy nights at the Guildhall SU along side!  So be sure to keep an eye out for him and catch up with some great chats here - https://soundcloud.com/42podcast  and on twitter here - @thatvittorio 

Happy New Year! This may not be what you were expecting but unfortunately, you never can tell what life will throw your way. This year, right at the end of the first day of this New Year, my family lost a very special dude.  My Gramps is a legend and so this weeks episode is a dedication to him. Thank you all for your support. I'm sorry I couldn't quite manage a "normal ep" this week, whatever that is?! but instead enjoy this awesome song which brought a smile to his face when I was back in Devon over Christmas. I love you Gramps. Taken from the DVD "Joe Brown - Live In Liverpool" - Available on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005LOBWCK

All sorts of exciting drunken stuff going on! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!  Lewis has decided to write about himself in the third person to make it look like he has a producer for his podcast. Lewis chats about being hot and drunk and he also touches on how he has replied to everyone who wrote to him and that he's had a great idea about getting listeners more involved!  He shares his plans to take a show to Edinburgh and wonders what you guys think about him sharing that process with you... He thinks he's late to the game, which we've all heard him saying there is no such thing as... so basically he's a hypocrite.  Now he's having doubts about this whole third person thing and even doubting whether he spelt whether right and if he even knows what the third person is... Google doesn't help really cos its one of those questions that's a bit difficult to write down... NOW... he knows he's taken it too far but secretly thinks it was bloody hilarious and cant wait to do it again next week!  ENJOY!!! 

So... its Christmas and to add injury to injury I have an abscess on my ass... LOL  Aside from that though I'm all good and excited about the New Year. I've been chatting with some folks about the pod and what we may be able to do with it in 2018 and on. There are lots of exciting things going on for all of us and I think its good to remind ourselves of these thangs from time to time. Mostly it's the stuff I work on and create myself that makes me really happy. So maybe that's a nice sign as to the type of work I really should be doing.  Just a thought... Happy holidays folks thanks for your continued support and I'll speak to you before the New Year. ENJOY!!!

Big love to all my buddies, budesses and everything in between. Thank you for reaching out to me when I was struggling. One great ingredient for happiness is good mates! We all have em, let them help you up when you're down.  Anyway! So im out of this trance and usually what i would be doing now is whipping myself across the back calling myself an idiot for making a mountian out of a molehill and I could easily do that right now, however i will not! I will learn from my experience and carry on. The main thing I think I have to do right now is to make adjustments as to how I deal with my lessons and what I take from them. Ive learned alot of lessons in life but only acted on a few of them and actually made changes. So 2018 and the New Year is a good excuse to evaluate and meditate on 2017 and see what I can learn and adjust.  Kaes back, the floor is done and spirits are high!  I hope the same goes for your Kae's, floors and spirits. BIG MASSIVE LOVE!!! ENJOY!

As soon as I dropped last weeks podcast of misery... I felt a million times better! My friends continued to reach out to me and I gradually accepted that and remembered that friends are freaking awesome. Talking on the pod got the darkness out of my skull and into the ether, lifting a huge weight off of my mind. I got myself out to the theatre and saw a banging show called WILD BORE at the Soho Theatre, which inspired me massively and reminded me of the creative power of performers and artists, do go and check it out! You won't regret it. Well you might but still, I thought it was sick!  I joined my family on a trip up to the Midlands to meet my sister's new boyfriend and some old family friends and some family I don't really get to see anymore, that was also great. It got me out of my cabin for a start but also got my head out of my bottom. Thank you to everyone who commented on the post last week, it really made me think about some bits and started a great discussion on the yins and yangs and turns out...

I've fallen into a pit guys... and I'm struggling to climb out, mainly, I think, because I've been beating myself up whilst I writhe around at the bottom naively hoping sympathy will reach its long spindly arm down to drag me out.  You're not a 5 year old falling off a bike anymore Lewis! Only I can get up and dust myself off and carry on... I've let all these weird thoughts affect me and the podcast and many other things that I apparently care about so much. So id like to say I'm sorry. I'm sorry... to the people who have written to me and not got a reply yet. I'm sorry to those of you who found this podcast by typing in "inspiration" and found a sad dude moaning about being a moaning lazy bastard... I'm sorry to my mates who I have neglected while indulging in my own stink... Im sorry to myself! for not just cracking on, not meditating and eating properly and all the shitty things.  Talking on the pod did help this week so maybe it will help anyone else who happens to feel the same way?!  Thanks for sti

This weeks pod marks the end of an awesome trip across the globe to visit my beautiful and talented better half in Hong Kong. I’ve had the most amazing trip. She’s amazing and lucky enough to be working with some other amazing folks I’ve been lucky enough to hang with while I free load as well! It’s a drunk pod as we round up the trip I think... we tried! I’ve had so much fun here (holidaying) but also thinking about you lot and this brilliant podcast that I get to do every fucking week! I can’t wait to see where this goes but for now (as I’m typing with one eye closed trying not to vomit) I just want to say I love you, thanks for listening, have a great week, keep it real, stay cool and all the other far out sayings that might have come up in past pods... ENJOY!!!

COMING AT YOU LIVE FROM HONG KONG! Well, not live but you know... I'm all disorientated. Time has gone weird but its all good. I've had a night having a good old chin wag with Kae and a morning in the park to myself to have a think about how I'm feeling. In this pod I try and convey those feelings, battling against the wind, a sling and a girl filming me with her phone whilst laughing pretty intensely, great for the old self-esteem, HA! I got down about my shoulder last week but realised I actually had a really good week and then realised I've actually had a really good year! and then realised I've had, and am having, a pretty good life! So fuck yeah, here's a pod about all that! ENJOY!!!

About two hours after last weeks episode I dislocated my shoulder. This one is slower... I might have even set out for it to be a "sombre" episode which is proof that I had chosen to focus on the negatives. There is no reason this one couldn't have been as hyped up, I let the negatives consume me! But I am glad you guys are here, by the time I finish talking with you today... I manage to climb up out of the slump. It's all cool now... life's cool! ENJOY!

This weekend I went on a silent meditation retreat and I feel like a new man. Although weirdly, with this new found focus, I seem to be hyper as hell and when I pressed record... I went all over the shop. BUT... I think if you listen carefully, its all about looking after YOURSELF and focusing on YOU. Reminding YOURSELF of what is important to YOU and prioritising those things. I've spent a lot of my life in a state of worry! It's a waste of time, don't do it! Think about doing what you truly love and be HAPPY!  I love you, ENJOY!!!