This week Bronte Charlotte chats with Jessica Stanley, an actor, writer and Co-Founder of the artistic collective Spinning Plates Co. This episode was recorded the day after the Green Room Awards were anounced and so Bronte and Jess chat about their collective surprise and excitement for each others nominations. They also dive into their experience collaborating with each other on Jess’s new one woman show Shut Up I’m A Vampire for Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2022, and the way that they came to round out and finish the show.

This week Bronte Charlotte chats with Alexander Lloyd about financial stability and sustainability and how it supports your creative practice, Alex’s experience transitioning from law to performing, how deeply important it is to be gentle with yourself when self-doubt creeps in, and having other passions to fill up your life.

This week Bronte Charlotte chats with Tehya Nicholas about theatre, writing, creativity, and the industry. A beautiful discussion interrogating the relevance of theatre in todays society, the validity of different stories and the importance of art.

Bronte Charlotte chats with Ellen Marning about their collaborations over the past 12 months, Ellen’s process writing and devising new shows, kicking on after a massive year, teaching as a side hustle, and the constant search for balance between financial stability and creative fulfilment.

This week Bronte chats about two things she’s been thinking about lately. Essential workers and identity! 

This week Bronte reflects on last week’s episode and the response she received about the way that we speak to ourselves. She challenges herself by sharing kind words said about her and the podcast, and shares how she is working to build kindness and self compassion into her life.

This week Bronte chats about life, sharing her recent experiences and discoveries about her personal practice, her mental health, and her motivation. It is a short snippet into the life of the host of Chats with Creatives, at a time where we all need just a little more connection in our lives.

This week Bronte Charlotte chats with Alex Hines, an actor, theatre maker, comedian, voice over and teaching artist. She was the co-lead in Monster & Bears’ comedy series Dee-Brief that was picked up by channel 10. She has created and produced several shows as the character Juniper Wilde and is currently developing her show To Shapelle and Back for this years Melbourne Fringe Festival which you can buy your tickets to right now!

This week Bronte Charlotte chats with Kaine Hansen about his show Wonderwall that was on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival ‘21 earlier this year. We talk about his experience creating his first solo show, how our attitudes towards death and loss and our own mortality can change suddenly, and the new exciting show he is working on for the Melbourne Fringe Festival, Close Encounters of the Murdering Kind with Sabina Geratti!

This week Bronte Charlotte chats with Declan Furber Gillick, an Arrernte man from Central Australia. His practice spans writing, theatre, music, film, poetry, rap, community education, and mentoring.

This week Bronte Charlotte chats with Alex Ridefelt about the making of his one man show Protein, the Messy Musings of a Queer Vegan. Alex is the creative behind Autonomous Inventions, Post A New Musical, and Tied Up with Strings. In this episode we dive into the ever-present moral angst that we feel moving through the world in its current climate, being vegan, and the constant pressure we place on ourselves to be perfect at everything we do.

This week Bronte Charlotte chats with award winning playwright Kim Ho, Asian-Australian creative who wrote the viral short film Language of Love. We chat about the internal battle of feeling like not having anything important to say, moving from writing with your brain to finding the heart and emotion of the story, and how creativity manifests differently for everyone during an experience like an extended lockdown.

This week Bronte Charlotte chats with actor Alex Donnelly, director & choreographer Miranda Middleton and producer Ashley Taylor from Salty Theatre’s Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts a Musical Parody. We delved into the behind the scenes and making of the show, how the three creatives all dealt with the show being postponed several times due to COVID restrictions, the changes in cast, coming in as a fresh director, who the show is for, and just how perfect the casting is!

In this episode Bronte Charlotte chats to Nick Clark, an ex-actor who made the choice to take a step back from the creative industries and study psychology. We delve into Nicks’ experiences in the creative industries and the moments that lead to his decision to leave. Nick speaks on the importance of non-judgment, empathy, different ways of defining yourself, finding joy every single day, and understanding human behaviour and mental health.

In this episode Bronte Charlotte chats to Lou Wall, multi-award winning comedian, composer and writer. They are the winner of Melbourne Fringe’s Best Cabaret 2020, best Emerging Ensemble 2019, and Best Emerging Artist 2018, and have several nominations to their name. We chat about the power of comedy and Lou’s experience transitioning stage to screen since the Coronavirus impacted theatres and the creative arts.

In this episode Katie Rowe and Michelle McCowage chat with Bronte Charlotte about the making of the show Grand Gesture. We delve into the concept, how it all began, different moments in the rehearsal room that built the show, working with Kat Cornwell & Morgan Rose of The People Theatre Company, getting back into performing after the long silence that was Melbourne’s COVID lockdown, and how romantic comedies influence us and the way that we perceive relationships and love.

In this episode Bronte Charlotte is joined by the incomparable Leith McPherson, a world-renowned voice and dialect coach, acting teacher, and sometimes-director. During this discussion we delve into Leith’s history training as an actor and moving to London to study her Postgraduate degree in Voice at Central School of Speech and Drama.

In this episode Olivia Satchell and Bronte Charlotte chat about developing work from the ground up, arts fundraising,community development, the impact of theatre, aligning your values with your collaborators, and honouring the different skills that people bring to a space.

In this episode Emily Goddard and Bronte Charlotte chat openly and honestly about the ups and downs of being actors, theatre makers, and generally empathetic humans.

In this episode Lucy Ansell and Bronte Charlotte discuss Australia's ongoing racism, colourism and texturism, by delving into a piece Lucy wrote for the publication Hair in which she reveals her relationship with her textured hair growing up in predominantly white spaces in Australia.