Welcome to the bumper final episode of of Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious for 2025, hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, featuring today's guest, the fascinating American actor: Frank Collison. Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning role of "Prospero" in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) , Frank Collison is a Los Angeles based actor and now, writer. Frank earned a BA at SF State during the late 60’s. He...
Dec 16, 2025•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Welcome to the penultimate episode of Season 1 of Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious , hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, featuring today's guest, the wonderful Australian actor: Phoebe Anne Taylor. Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning roles of "Sebastian" and "Launce" in Shakespeare Republic and "Jane Porter" in Dark Arcadia , Phoebe Anne Taylor is a Melbourne based theatre maker, actor and writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Honou...
Dec 09, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Welcome to Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious , hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, and featuring today's guest, the wonderful British actor: Leo Atkin. Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning role of "Puck" in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) , Leo has been an actor for 40 years, and has been privileged to perform in some of the most beautiful and historic theatres in the world, as well as some of the mo...
Nov 11, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Welcome to Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious , hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, and featuring today's guest, the wonderful British actor: Yolanda Ovide. Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning role of "Juliet" in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) , a performance that won her Best Supporting Actress in a Drama at the 2021 British Web Awards in the UK, Yolanda trained at the London Academy of Music and D...
Oct 31, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Welcome to Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious , hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, and featuring today's guest, the fabulous Australian actor: Tim Constantine. Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning role of "Hamlet" in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) , Tim's stage roles include “Jerry” in Pinter’s Betrayal ; “Freddie Filmore” in It’s A Wonderful Life ; “David O. Selznick” in Moonlight & Magnolias ;...
Oct 14, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Welcome to Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious , hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, and featuring today's guest, the fabulous American actor: Laura Gardner. Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning role of "Constance" in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) , Laura has appeared on Broadway in Smile , Off Broadway in The Cocktail Hour, Other People’s Money and Welded directed by Jose’ Quintero. She toured natio...
Sep 30, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Welcome to Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious , hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, and featuring today's guest, the wonderful American actor: Christopher Kirby. Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning roles of "Thomas More" in Shakespeare Republic Season Two, "Richard II" in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) and "Benedick" in Speaking Daggers , Chris began his career in his native USA before moving to Aus...
Sep 23, 2025•53 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Welcome to Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious , hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, and featuring today's guest, the wonderful Australian actor: Sass Pinci. Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning role of "Mark Antony" in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) , "Puck/Ghost" in Walking Shadows Vol. 2 and "Elizabeth Grey" in Dark Arcadia , Sass is an award-winning Actor, Writer, Director, and Producer. Predomina...
Sep 16, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Welcome to Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious , hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, and featuring today's guest, the wonderful USA actor: Miguel Perez. Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning role of "The Chorus" from Henry V in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) , Miguel has worked in films with the likes of Johnny Depp, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Hilary Swank and many others. He has ...
Sep 09, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious , hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, and featuring today's guest: wonderful UK actor: Danielle Farrow. Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning role of "Henry IV" in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) , Danielle’s enduring love of Shakespeare has led to playing a wide range of roles including Juliet, Shylock, Viola, Oberon, Lysander, Prospero, and the Bawd in Pe...
Sep 02, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the first episode of Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious , hosted by Australian actor, Sally McLean, and featuring today's guest: beloved Aussie actor: Don Bridges. Known to Shakespeare Republic audiences for playing the award-winning role of "Corin" in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) , Don's work in theatre includes performances in London, New York, San Francisco, Melbourne, Adelaide, Darwin, Hobart, New South Wales and Western ...
Aug 26, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Musing on the Bard: a podcast for the Shakespeare curious is for those who are interested in Shakespeare and also for those who feel they should be interested in Shakespeare, but so far have not been lured by his charms. It’s about the craft of acting – we are all actors here, so no avoiding that – but it is also about the act of creating in general. It is about being human. About the mis-takes made while walking the creative road and what that taught us. About the success we might have achieved...
Aug 23, 2025•2 min
