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Five things actors wish directors knew. Five things directors wish actors knew.

After 35-ish years spent acting, directing, teaching and occasionally driving each other slightly mad in rehearsal rooms, Nik & Mik compare wish lists.

We get into trust, preparation, communication, vulnerability, knowing your bloody lines, giving useful direction — and why actors and directors sometimes seem to be speaking entirely different languages while trying to make exactly the same thing.

There are a few war stories, some lessons learnt the hard way and, underneath it all, a lot of love for the beautifully messy business of making theatre together.

Two lists. Ten wishes. Several opinions. Surely this won't start an argument.

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Well, here we are again.

Nik and Mik have found themselves at that familiar creative junction: something new has started to take shape, which means excitement, possibility, logistics, money, doubt, overthinking, and at least one conversation about whether this is actually a good idea.

In this episode, we talk about embarking on another creative project and what that stirs up after years of making work together and separately. We get into the strange cycle of creative momentum: where ideas come from, why some suddenly demand attention, how previous projects shape the next one, and the eternal question of whether to follow the spark or behave like sensible adults.

There’s also plenty of conversation about work, changing priorities, creative identity, and what it means to make something now without automatically sacrificing time, money, energy or wellbeing at the altar of “the project”.

So yes, something new is brewing.

We’re interested. We’re cautious. We’re probably going to do it anyway.

A conversation about beginnings, baggage, creative appetite, and the deeply suspicious phrase: “I’ve had an idea…”

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Got a question or an idea you would like us to discuss? Drop us an email or voice note at mikallenconcept@icloud.com

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We promised ourselves a year off making shows.

We nearly made it. 😂

Mik's got an agent again. Self-tapes are flying in. Nikki's been quietly nursing an idea involving life drawing, poetry and a bit of bohemian mischief.

And now somebody has said the words “Adelaide Fringe.”

This week in The Green Room: getting older in the creative industries, auditions, typecasting, rejection, money, risk — and why, after 35 years, we apparently still can't stop ourselves from making things.

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