Here are the artists who contribute to the podcast.
Margi Brown Ash — Patron
Dr Margi Brown Ash is a theatre-maker, therapist, researcher, theatre director, facilitator and MC with over 40 years of experience. Margi has most generously signed up as a patron at Patreon.com/amIoldyet. Find out more about her at https://www.margibrownash.com/
Mark Bunyan — composer and arranger
Mark served as a local magistrate from 1995 to 2019, won two national gold medals for trampolining in the over-60s category for the British Gymnastics association and has recently started flying trapeze. He lives with Andrew, his partner of 47 years and counting. As you can tell he’s probably a terrible big head but surprisingly approachable. His website www.markbunyan.com desperately needs updating but his YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3IgrRy7d7Aw5Z5yY9VSNew is better tended.
Mark Bunyan was an out gay cabaret performer to start with, then wrote a youth musical JUST GOOD FRIENDS which played to packed houses and was named Best Musical of 1982 by City Limits magazine. This led to various other musicals with various degrees of success. (The most recent, BEING COLONEL BARKER (www.beingcolonelbarker.com) and DEFINING DR MINOR (www.definingdrminor.com) were workshopped at the Royal Academy of Music and have their own websites. Websites will be soon available for www.emyntrudeandesmeralda.com, www.unburiedtreasures.com and www.trueromances.com.
His stage play, DINNER, won the international playwriting competition —and had a successful run—at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon. In 1995, he was canonised by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, as St Mark of the Musical Tendency, for his contribution to gay liberation which included, in 1983, co-founding, with the late Brian Kennedy, the Pink Singers, now the oldest LGBT+ Choir in Europe.
A short documentary about him, MARK BUNYAN, VERY NEARLY ALMOST FAMOUS, was a selection at the San Francisco International Gay Film Festival in 2013 and is available to watch online for 99p (get some friends round and charge them 20p each) at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mark.
Allana Noyes – Georgina (Georgi
Allana is an Australian actress and Voice and Speech teacher who lives in Toowoomba, Qld, Australia, with her husband Bob and Pluto the Wonder Dog.
Allana performs in Episodes 5 “Caught Out”, 8 “More Secrets”, and 20 “Rockhampton Daze”
Mark Porter — Jack — Postman
Mark is an actor/writer based in Liverpool. He can be seen on Amazon Prime in 2020’s “While We Wait” and stars in Rusty Apper’s “Artefacts of Fear” (October 2021). His crime comedy novels are available through Amazon, more details at www.markporter.weebly.com. To be honest, the words ‘cult hero’ and ‘international mega star’ spring to mind—if not quite now, then very very soon!
If you’d like to treat Mark to a cup of coffee (or a beer), just click here.
Jane Vicary — Pattie
Mark appears in Episodes 10 “Jack Who”, and 19 “Who’s a Keeper”
Jane appears in Episode 12 “Pattie’s Secret”
When Jane Vicary isn’t eating oysters in Whistable she lives in the Lake District and walks the fells. She is a freelance Voice and Text Coach and Director having previously been Head of Voice at ALRA North and the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester. She trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama, wrote her dissertation on Voice and Gender which was published in the VASTA Journal of 2004 and has pursued the glories of a simple life ever since.
Christopher McDougall — Rene — Piotr/Charlie
Christopher’s recent acting credits include Davie McD/Sam/Tobias Grenfell in Tell Me A Story, produced by Kibo Productions for Zoom; Squire Bogey (and others) in Jack and the Beanstalk, with M&M Theatrical Productions; God in It’s Aboot Adam, at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe; Various characters in The Sherlock Holmes Experience, at Madame Tussaud’s, London; and Fairy G/Sugar Plum in Bad Cinderella, at the Cockpit Theatre, in December 2018.
In April 2021, alongside fellow producer Mark Hunter, he co-wrote, co-directed and was Musical Director on Robin Hood: A Virtual Pantomime, which took place on Zoom, and was very well received.
Christopher has written a new musical – Star Streaker: The Musical –which he hopes to revive in the not so distant future!
Find out more about what Christopher is doing at www.christophermcdougall.co.uk
Christopher appears in Episodes 14 “Hey Old Lady” and 15 “Oh Waiter”
Joanna Cazden—Esme
Joanna appears in Episode 18 “Esme Calls” and Season 2 Episode 11 “A Friend in Need”
Joanna Cazden is an actor and singer/songwriter in California USA. She has an MFA from CalArts (favorite role: Puck in MSND) and has also appeared in dramatic roles with the Seattle Lyric Theater, and Sholem Community Players; music credits include several national tours in the 1970s feminist music movement, six solo albums, an ensemble CD with Pete Seeger, and a season as music director for Boston’s Caravan Theater. She is also a licensed speech pathologist specializing in vocal arts rehabilitation, and the author of Everyday Voice Care: The Lifestyle Guide for Singers and Talkers. Her pandemic-era songs “COVID Hard Times Come Again No More,” and “When the Whole World Opens Up Again,” can be found on all music platforms and at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8UDIaxfQ5I5_WxOnFFqrag; contact www.joannacazden.com.
Amy Stoller — BethAnn
Amy Stoller (BethAnn) lives in New York. She spent her first act as an actor and is now enjoying her second act as a dialect designer/coach and dramaturge. You can learn lots more about her and her work at www.stollersystem.com.
Bibi the dog — Honey
Bibi is the Stoller System Client Morale Officer and is delighted to be making her podcast debut
Frances Brodie Oldbridge—Rozzie
Frances is a vocalist, actor, voice actor and audio producer. She has just published her production of The Chavman Chronicles written by Db Morgan available on Audible and is soon to release a new album with Project Sparrow. You can access her back catalogue of music with Tracing Arcs on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon.
Also, look out for Frances as Shelly Bass in “MorrisMen” an urban revenge feature film shooting in October.
Judi is a member of VASTA. She ran a drama school for many years and worked at Bristol Riverside Theater as the assistant to the Artistic Director and Voice Coach.
When not on stage, Judi teaches communication courses at Bucks County Community College and lives with her two Border Collies and “Border Cat” in New Hampshire.
Judi Lehrhaupt—Sadie
Judi Raff Lehrhaupt was born into the theatre world. Her great grandfather sang for the Russian Opera Company in Kiev and her parents were very much involved in all the arts throughout their lives. Judi graduated from NYU with a degree in Theatre Education, Directing and received her Master’s Degree in Speech Pathology from Columbia University.
She has acted, danced, directed, choreographed and taught theatre classes over many years. Combining degrees in Speech Pathology with her love of voice and speech, Judi works as a Voice Specialist in her private practice, as well as an accent specialist (put it on, take it off). She is a member of VASTA. She ran a drama school for many years and worked at Bristol Riverside Theater as the assistant to the Artistic Director and Voice Coach.
John Warner—Jonathan
John is a Brisbane (Australia) based actor, director, producerr. His company, Trocadero Productions is known for its site specific Shakespeare productions, and for his satirical reviews and musicals. Among his roles are Henry in Henry V, Edmund in King Lear, Trigorin in The Seagull, The Bastard in The Life and Death of King John, Aaron in Titus Andronicus, and John in A Life in the Theatre (the latter directed by Flloyd).
She has performed in on-line plays and showcases around the country, as well as performing in a short film as part of the 2020 SOfa festival in Lincolnshire. She is co-founder of LincsCameraAction (LCA) a new company dedicated to creating and producing work by and for fellow creatives in the county. She is keen to collaborate and create with other fellow professional creatives throughout the country and is delighted therefore to be working with Flloyd on ‘Am I Old Yet’?
Sarah-Ann Hassell—Carol
Sarah-Ann Hassall (Sarah Macdonald) is an actor living in Lincolnshire who first worked in professional theatre in the nineties. She toured in plays from Pantomime to Priestley, before creating her own Theatre-In-Education company, taking a range of genres into schools and doing workshops. This led to a spell as a Teacher of Drama and English. She has also presented stories for children, poetry, voice work and radio and audio dramas and during lockdown, including several with Make It Write, performance company in the North West, where she met and worked with Flloyd Kennedy.
Roy Carruthers—Dimitri
Born and raised in Liverpool, England, Roy experienced life in a variety of jobs, before he came to acting after graduating from University as a mature student at the age of thirty-eight. Previous theatre credits include: the MI5 agent in ‘By The Waters of Liverpool’ (Empire Theatre, Liverpool), as panto villains Abanazar (Dubai Media City), the Sheriff of Nottingham and King Rat (Gracie Fields Theatre, Rochdale), Tony De Vito in ‘Lennon’s Banjo’ (Epstein Theatre), Victor Franz in Arthur Miller’s ‘The Price’ (Liverpool Unity Theatre), Frank in ‘Ladies Night’, Slater in ‘Funny Money’ and Santa in ‘Night Collar’ (Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool), The Fourth Wall (Old Red Lion, Islington) and Mafioso (Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh).
On TV he appeared in ‘Longford’ (Granada), ‘Good Cop’ (BBC TV) and as Frank in the Feature Film Sparkle (Magic Light Pictures).
Also actor/director with the Vauxy Theatre. Likes doing new plays with new writers. Did a silent movie, “Docker and the Rose”A wonderful experience. Also,Trafford Tanzi at the Mermaid Theatre, in the Westend.
Roy supplied over 50 character voices for 10 unabridged audio books of the Redwall series, by best-selling Liverpool author, Brian Jacques and can often be heard on BBC Radio 4; credits include ‘Cobwebs’ and ‘Brief Lives’, ‘The Sad Story of Jim Thorpe’, ‘William Quilliam: The Sheikh of Liverpool’ and ‘The Strange Case of Oliver Cromwell’s Head’ plus two appearances on the Radio 4 show Pick of The Week.
Chris Darwin-Uncle James
Chris has been acting for 50 plus years. Has been fortunate enough to have worked with some really good directors such as Chris bond, Alan Dossor, Noreen Kershaw, Philip Saville, Terrance Davies and Christine Ezard, to name a few. Had three wonderful years with the Liverpool Everyman theatre, on the road and in-house. Lots of tv work: Coronation St, Emmerdale, Lenny Henry show (twice), Hollyoaks, Heartbeat, Boys From the Blackstuff and lots more.
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