Collaborating director to audiodrama mini series, 2021

MAKE ME: A Miniseries About Identity

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In a digital world where we hang on to every label, celebrated or vilified, how do you construct, negotiate or realise your own identity?

Gender. Race. Religion. Sexuality. Mental health. Physical ability. We can both wear labels proudly and have them forced upon us.

Identity is more than label – it’s experience. Memory. Inheritance.

MAKE ME is a new audiodrama mini-series made of six self-contained episodes by six amazing writers, looking at the intersection between what defines you and how others define you.

The series was made entirely remotely by artists based in different places all over the globe who came together online over 2020 and 2021. It’s available now on Spotify.

Series creator, producer and dramaturg: Hayley Ricketson @whatrickowrote

Series sound design and editing: Oliver Schulz

The stories…(more information here.)

Episode 1: Minority Fetish

Blue-sky thinking just got a whole lot more colourful… or has it?

A gay man, a black woman and a Sikh man are called to a meeting with HR to talk about diversity – a conversation to move the company forward and tick all the right boxes. But what happens when Freddy doesn’t fit inside his neat minority box?

Will this meeting of minds actually lead to frank conversations and positive progress, or just tick enough boxes to pass the diversity test?

By Mark Daniels @MarkDaniels55

Directed by Edwina Strobl @estroblina

Cast: all characters voiced by Christian Andrews

Sound design and editing: Beth Duke

Episode 3: MEAT

‘Memories demand attention because memories have teeth’ – Viola Davis

Girl. Woman. Wolf. Superhero. Predator. Prey.

MEAT is an electrifying roar of fury, a rallying cry of protest and empowerment, a unifying celebration of strength, an adventure packed with heroism and heart.

By Elle Dillon-Reams @Elle_D_Reams

Directed by Edwina Strobl @estroblina

Cast: Jack/Narrator/Wolf: Elle Dillon-Reams; Youngest girl: Zazie Hayhurst

Sound design and editing: Porsha Present and Emer Dineen