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Acting on Experience with Michael Jibson

Honest conversations with experienced actors

A podcast about actors: the craft, career and real-life stories behind long and varied careers in the entertainment industry. Hosted by Olivier Award winner Michael Jibson.

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Acting On Experience is a podcast dedicated to honest conversations with the most experienced actors, performers and creatives where we discuss…

  • First auditions and lucky breaks.
  • Setbacks, successes and everything in between.
  • How they got started, and what has kept them going.
  • How the profession has changed around them.
  • Why they still love what they do after all these years.
  • The hard-earned lessons of making art.

About the show

From first auditions and lucky breaks to setbacks, successes and everything in between, the show explores the stories behind long and varied careers in the entertainment industry.

In each episode we meet artists who have spent decades honing their craft and adapting to an industry that never stands still. Through warm conversation, guests reflect on how they got started, what has kept them going, how the profession has changed around them and why they still love what they do after many years of work.

Our aim is to capture a snapshot of the industry as it was and how our guests have helped to shape it to what we have today, all via stories, anecdotes and the sharing of the hard-earned lessons that we all discover on our journeys in making art. At the heart of the podcast we want to preserve the stories that don’t always get told and the wisdom that years of experience in the creative space can provide. All told in the words of our guests.

Meet our host

Michael Jibson

Portrait of Michael Jibson, host of Acting on Experience

Acting on Experience is hosted by Michael Jibson, an Olivier Award-winning actor, writer, director and voiceover artist from Hull whose work has spanned theatre, television, film and radio. He trained at the Guildford School of Acting and with the National Youth Music Theatre, of which he is now a Patron.

Michael won the Olivier Award in 2018 for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of King George III in the original London production of Hamilton, having previously been nominated in 2003 for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in Our House. In 2019, he established the Hull & East Yorkshire Arts and Culture Trust (HEYACT), which aims to help young people from Hull and the surrounding region access careers in the arts.

Credits

  • Rivals2026Television

    Gordy Dillon · Disney + · Directed by Elliot Hegarty

  • Stranger Things: The First Shadow2023Stage

    Victor Creel · Phoenix Theatre · Directed by Stephen Daldry / Justin Martin

  • Bodies2022Television

    DCI Jack Barber · Netflix · Directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner / Haolu Wang

  • Four Lives2022Television

    DC Paul Slaymaker · ITV Studios/BBC · Directed by David Blair

  • 19172019Feature film

    Lieutenant Hutton · Amblin/Universal · Directed by Sam Mendes

  • Quiz2019Television

    Tecwen Whittock · Leftbank Pictures/ITV · Directed by Stephen Frears

  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi2018Feature film

    Jober Tavson · Disney/Lucasfilm · Directed by Rian Johnson

  • Hamilton2017Stage

    King George III · Victoria Palace Theatre / Cameron Mackintosh Ltd · Directed by Thomas Kail · Olivier Award Winner - Best Supporting Actor

  • Les Miersables2012Feature film

    Factory Foreman · Working Title / Universal · Directed by Tom Hooper

  • Our House2002Stage

    Joe Casey · Cambridge Theatre · Directed by Matthew Warchus · Olivier Award and Whatsonstage nomination - Best Actor in a Musical

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