Actor Rayxia Ojo tells John Byrne about powering through the nerves during her audition for Call the Midwife and valuing life around work

Freelance intimacy director and coordinator Lucy Fennell tells John Byrne about how her teaching background informs her work with actors and directors

AACE UK coordinator Pat O’Toole tells John Byrne about her career path and her organisation’s mission to make acting training safer for everyone

Actor Haydn O’Reilly tells John Byrne about getting into theatre without formal training and using the feeling of being an impostor to push himself further

Social media and reality TV can now propel performers to fame, leading the value of formal drama training to be questioned. But industry leaders tell us why tuition remains so valuable

The founder and creative director of Thinking Actors talks about the different trajectories his career has taken and offers his advice for students and graduates

Actor Keelan McAuley tells John Byrne about his first professional job, in a musical on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship

The director tells John Byrne how unsuccessful interviews and seemingly aimless conversations helped mould his career

The acting coach, also known as the Audition Doctor, tells John Byrne about preparing outside of rehearsals and the traits shared by inspiring theatre actors

The actor tells John Byrne about her first performing job at the age of seven: playing Milly in Annie at the Pleasance Theatre in 2003

The head of cultural programme at Shoreditch Town Hall tells John Byrne about the importance of staying adaptable and taking every opportunity to network

The director and acting tutor at Italia Conti and LAMDA offers her tips for graduates and early-career theatremakers

The singer tells John Byrne how she moved into musical theatre after losing a record deal

The actor, singer and dancer tells John Byrne about her first performing job: playing Louisa in the West End production of The Sound of Music in 1981

The senior agent at InterTalent and former EastEnders actor on how she started out in the industry, her move to becoming an agent and what graduates should know about the agent-client relationship