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‘Lost Souls Monologues’ is a free podcast and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
If you enjoy listening to it and would like to make a contribution to the podcast, you can donate here.
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About us
Why ‘Lost Souls Monologues’?
A few years ago, Matt wrote a handful of monologues. They were the basis of a stage show he was writing, loosely based around the idea that all people are lost in some way. It then occurred to him that the play had great potential as an audio piece, so he set about planning that. It didn’t take him long to realise that the appetite for a multi-character one man show with a single actor on a podcast might not garner much of an audience. What if he were to ask other writers to join?
He took the idea to Caitlin and ‘Lost Souls Monologues’ was born.
When we conceived the idea and made the call to writers, we anticipated a few dozen entries that we would read our way through over a few weeks, agree on twenty and then set about recording them with some actor friends. When six hundred monologues were submitted to us from around the world, our simple little model shattered. Over the course of many months, we made our way through these wonderful submissions. Every monologue was read, in its entirety, at least once and discussed at length within the team.
Non-selection wasn’t a comment on the quality of the work; it was a combination of how our readers felt the piece spoke to the theme and how it would fit with the other monologues in the series. The final pieces you hear on the podcast reflect the high standard and diversity of the submissions we received.
Ultimately, our aims were to showcase stories and voices that perhaps aren’t always heard, to create something in a low-pressure environment, and to try something new and interesting. We hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we’ve enjoyed recording them.
Matt Gibbs, Producer and sound editor
Matt is from Australia and trained at the Oxford School of Drama. Prior to drama school, Matt was a UN aid worker in some African and the Pacific Islands countries for several years.
Matt’s acting credits include:
Theatre: LORNA DOONE (Pleasuredome Theatre Company), GHOST ABOUT THE HOUSE (King’s Head Theatre), LAKAVU (Hope Theatre), FRANK SENT ME (Underbelly, The Otherplace, King’s Head Theatre), LOVER (Etcetera Theatre), THE ANSWER TO IT ALL (Old Red Lion), CARDENIO (Rose Theatre), THE ROVER (New Diorama), OUR FATHER (Soho Theatre), THE BACCHAE (Southwark Playhouse), TWELFTH NIGHT (Cockpit Theatre), THE MALCONTENT (White Bear), IPHIGENIE EN TAURIDE (Rye Festival), SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (Hampstead Theatre), TWELFTH NIGHT (Blenheim Palace).
TV: Ants and Elephants (Stanley Road), PIPI (Silverbullet Films), Balikapapan (Smithsonian Channel)
Short Film: My Life a Tram (Sydney Film Festival), Sadie (Texas Film Festival), The Outback Motel (London Film Festival).
Matt was also co-producer ‘Frank Sent Me’ for the Edinburgh Festival (Underbelly) and the Brighton Festival (The Otherplace).
Caitlin Ince, Creative Producer
Caitlin met Matt whilst training at The Oxford School of Drama. Prior to this, she studied Theatre and Performance at The University of Warwick, where she graduated with a first class degree in 2010. Since leaving Oxford, she has had many creative adventures including devising and performing in some award winning theatre, touring her own verbatim play, living as a working actor in London and surviving brain surgery. Her passions lie in new writing, and storytelling.
She currently works full time for a TV Production company in London.
Amy Wolfe, the Artist
The artist who designed the logo and the beautiful character pieces is the divinely gifted Amy Wolfe. More of her work and her contact details can be found via these links:
Instagram: @amykatewolfe/
Jonathan Cripps, the Composer
Our gorgeous theme music was composed by the wildly talented Jonathan Cripps.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the writers, actors and directors for their wonderful work on this. They have all been very patient and encouraging – and we’re so humbled at the sheer creativity that they have thrown at this project.
We must thank our wonderful group of life-saving readers. Without them, Caitlin and Matt would still be reading through the entries and the actual podcast would be a very distant, hazy dream. They are, in no particular order, Julian Poidevin, Tamar Karabetyan, Charlie Rollo-Walker, Tom Hawkes, Liam Shea, Mark James, Matt Morrow and Jake Hassam.
We have been bowled over by the generosity of spirit shown by everyone involved in this project. It started out as a small idea, but the heart shown by all our creatives has turned it into a hugely gratifying experience.