Episode 19 Beatrice Hyde, actor and playwright

The path from Kent Drama graduate to professional actor and playwright

An episode of the Proper Job Gradcast podcast, hosted by properjobgradcast, titled "Episode 19 Beatrice Hyde, actor and playwright" was published on April 25, 2022 and runs 25 minutes.

April 25, 2022 ·25m · Proper Job Gradcast

Summary

Olly Double interviews Kent Drama graduate Beatrice Hyde about her career as an actor and playwright. This was recorded as Beatrice was rehearsing her play Emmeline for Theatre Lab Company at the Cockpit, and she tells the story of how she started writing it in a second year Drama module at Kent, developed it during a year studying abroad at Berkeley, staged a version at the end of her final year at Kent, and onwards to finally staging it professionally. Along the way, she talks about the option of studying abroad at Kent, doing a postgrad MA at East 15, being mentored, and developing the freelancer lifestyle in a career which ‘can have many slashes’. Want to know what she means by that? Then listen to the episode!

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