You can listen to Guy woolf on Episode 17 here!
'Scars, Not Wounds' | Sanity, Sensitivity and Sobriety with Theatre Maker, GUY WOOLF – The Invisible Cabaret Podcast: Mental Health & The Arts
This edition of our mental health and creativity flavoured podcast, we are joined by a stalwart friend of Invisible Cabaret: the multi-gifted, sickeningly talented Guy Woolf. Guy is an actor-director-composer-singer-advocate; you can see why he tends to go by ‘theatre maker’, just to save on hyphens. We chat with Guy about feeling his way through a career in the arts, checking and redressing privilege, and how his dog changed his life. Plus, Ferrero Rochelle and Rosie Verbose come unstuck whilst trying to make a furniture analogy, so look out for that.
Check out Represent Theatre and watch this space! And don’t miss the play Guy is directing with the Manchester Jewish Museum: full details on Guy’s Twitter.
Find out more about Guy via his website, or read his bio on the Equity website. He is represented by Kitty Laing at United Agents.
Some useful links for mental health issues mentioned in this episode: help with substance abuse here and here.
⚠️ CW: alcohol abuse & addiction behaviours (18:30 – 21:50); brief mention of medical trauma (19:00 – 19:35).
Throwback! Rosie Verbose, Guy and Ferrero Rochelle at university (Musical Theatre Society club dinner… BECAUSE WE ARE VERY COOL) 
Guy in Actor Mode 
George, Guy’s gorgeous dog 
Guy as Electra Streisand
Sometimes the material that would inform the character, that was all me. It’s all personal. But then… the material I would deliver would be things I would know were sustainable. You know, I think we have to be quite kind of blunt and honest with ourselves, and be like, ‘Can I do this every single night?’ And if you can’t, then don’t. Then you shouldn’t do it, because actually, I don’t think an audience wants to see that either.
guy woolf on creating art from personal experience
THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST:
- Episode with Bria
- Bryony Kimmings, British live artist
- Equity (you can hear more about how Equity helped troupe member Steph “Tootsie” De Whalley during lockdown in her episode)
- Michelle Ashton, part of Equity Young Members Committee; find her on Twitter @chelle_ashton
- Represent (Guy is Creative Director)
- Lutheran bad-ass Nadia Bolz-Weber; see the original Tweet Guy references here
- Heineken non-alcoholic beer (other 0% beers are available)
- Dogs & mental health: Guardian article
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Tell us what you’re grateful for! We always end our shows with what has inspired gratitude in us this week, and we’d love to include your thankful thoughts too. Tweet, message us on Facebook or DM us on Instagram with what you’re grateful for, whenever the mood takes you. You can also email us: invisiblecabaret@gmail.com. Or – better still – send us a voice message!
Are you an artist (of any description) with a mental health story to tell? We are always on the lookout for future guests. Email invisiblecabaret@gmail.com for more details about how to be a future guest on the podcast.
Edited and mixed by Matt Ennis, www.mennismixing.co.uk.
Music: Shades of Spring by Kevin MacLeod, available under license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
If you’re affected by any of the issues raised in this episode, please do not be afraid to seek support. Help is available. The NHS website has a great directory to get you started.
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