Would you do it? Become a patron and help me make this show Bonus episodes every week: >> https://www.patreon.com/theblissoftheabyss Send some coffee pennies my way! https://paypal.me/robertneumark?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB Or support the show through other ways: Subscribe to the show Give us a rating & review Like and follow us on Facebook or Instagram My Webpage for all enquiries © Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome back to TBOTA! This week on the show we have Theo St. Claire. Theo St. Claire is a Nigerian/Jamaican British Born Actor who graduated from Drama Centre in 2014. His career has spanned classical text (RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe), radical political theatre (Béznă Theatre, Wearewhoweare) and London’s West End (Touching The Void). He has graced the small screen at home (Doctors, New Blood, Holby City) and internationally (Guerrilla, The Tunnel) We discuss moving out of London, the notion of privacy, Covid deniers and conspiracy theorists, governmental overreach, mental health struggles and overcoming, the 'acting ladder', pandemic career pauses and more! Having spent the last decade honing his craft in the acting world, Theo is currently pursuing further his other artistic passions, be it promoting the funk [@smiles_collective], playing the punk [TitzVagaBond] or supporting artists who need it the most [@mosesderiaart]. You can catch him in Episode 5 of Foundation on Apple TV+ (streaming now), and in ‘The Woods IV: The Trees’ a debut short horror comedy written and directed by Tom Shiner (due for a festival release later this year). Support Theo: Keep It Down: The Bread & Roses Theatre (68 Clapham Manor Street, Clapham SW4 6DZ, London); Fri 19th (best availability) & Sat 20th November, 7.30pm Booking Link: https://calendar.time.ly/4u8hx8fh/event/67700601/20211119193000 Emma is also doing her first performance next week at: The Bridge House Theatre SE20 (Bridge House, 2 High St, Penge, London SE20 8RZ); Fri 29th October, 7.30pm (best availability) Booking Link: https://thebridgehousetheatre.co.uk/shows/keep-it-down/ Support the show: Give us a rating & review Become a patron and help me make this show Like and follow us on Facebook or Instagram Rent the award-winning One Jewish Boy © Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTAA return, of sorts, with a solo episode and updates from the field, inlcuding getting banned off Twitter, being up for some awards and getting into trouble in Oxford.Wish us luck with the awards! 2025 London Pub Theatre Awards | The CockpitSupport this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!Albert Bramante is a Talent Agent, Psychology Professor, Hypnosis & NLP Expert, and Author of Rise Above the Script.In this fascinating episode we delve into topics including: changes in the industry, self-taping, diversity in casting, confidence and intrusive thoughts, career ups and downs, psychological blocks such as imposter syndrome, self-sabotage and Judas syndrome and so much more!Bramante ArtistsRise Above The Script: Confronting Self Doubt and Mastering Self Sabotage for Performing ArtistsSupport this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!Comedy is the focus this week in an amazing episode. NFFHC discuss: 'completing Pornhub', losing medals because of your package, "Vietmanese", Runner's high, Filipino national languages, Olympic prize money by nation, AND SO MUCH MOREwatch P8R's tikoksfollow tom on instaSupport this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!Carpet Martin is a writer, comedian and tour guide responsible for boiling many brains.He's at it again.Support this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!Thomas Neumark Jones and Jeremy Neumark Jones are my brothers. It was my birthday. This is the resulting podcast.It's good.Support this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!I had the privilege and pleasure to be a guest on the fantastic podcast, On Brand hosted by the magnificent Al Worth. This episode is a preview of that, so after listening and enjoying, do head over to their YouTube and give the full thing a listen, and don't forget to like and subscribe and consider joining their Patreon! A-thank-ya.Grasping At Strawmen w/Robert Neumark JonesOn Brand | The podcast dedicated to debunking Russell Brand | PatreonSupport this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!Dan Milne trained as a theatre practitioner after studying English at Cambridge and training at the Drama Studio, London. He has acted with leading UK theatre companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Young Vic, and Complicité, as well as regionally with the Royal Exchange Manchester, Birmingham Rep, and Liverpool Everyman. His international tours have taken him to Broadway and festivals in the US, Mexico, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Screen credits include Eastenders, The Nevers, and Star Wars: The Acolyte.As a director, Dan has worked with the RSC and Young Vic and presented work at BAC, Trafalgar Studios, and off-Broadway. He produced the documentary The Longest Game and two features, Never Here and Widow’s Walk, and is currently developing The Gate with Camille Thoman and Tobias Menzies. He also co-founded Narativ, a storytelling company born from his acclaimed New York theatre piece Two Men Talking. The company’s mission is ‘a world connected by listening and sharing personal stories’ - a mission to support people to explore, tell and reflect on the stories of their personal experience.Jane Nash is Director and Lead Trainer of Narativ in London. She believes passionately in the transformative power of Listening & Storytelling and brings a rigorous, compassionate ability to listen in all situations, creating trainings that her clients say are practical, inspiring and always human. Jane developed her love of story and her expertise in the behaviours of personal impact in a career spanning many decades, working internationally as an actor, writer, director and theatre maker. She has appeared in film and on television, and in theatre spaces as diverse as Greenwich Park, St Pancras Station and the Olivier Theatre. She has created many pieces of theatre drawing on elements of personal storytelling - such work includes ‘Big Space’, ‘Small Space’, and a piece about family currently being developed with Dan and her daughter, entitled ‘All Those Things’.Support this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!Born in Scotland. Eric MacLennan has been making avant-garde performance work for over forty years. During this time he has worked as an actor and director with many world class companies including DV8 Physical Theatre; David Glass Ensemble; V-TOL; Citizens Theatre Glasgow; Red Shift; Manchester Royal Exchange; Bristol Old Vic; Theatre of Comedy Company; Royal National Theatre Studio; Boilerhouse; Volcano; Lumiere & Son; Shunt; Station House Opera; National Theatre of Scotland; Young Vic and the Almeida.Over the last ten years he has been creating his own distinctive work whose practice occupies a unique space somewhere between theatre, movement and the visual arts. Inspired by philosophy and comedy in equal measure his work questions our unconscious habits, challenges conventions and isn’t afraid to say the unsayable!Discussed: Being in Star wars, sources of inspiration, creating your own work, a voyage around my bedroom, performing at Glastonbury, working with Jane Nash, Embarrassing auditions and failed projects, pre show routines, how actors develop superstitions, Spelling 'zhjugdge', regretting your name being Crispin, Lecoque, your favourite spice girl, AND SO MUCH MORESupport this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!Nadya Menuhin read languages at University College London, and currently works as a literary agent for non-British authors in adaptation and translation. She was part of the Royal Court Writers’ Group, and BBC Writersroom London Voices cohort. Plays include I, Mother (Fuel Residency at Druid Theatre, Galway), The Second Rule(Mercury Theatre, Colchester) and Tremors, starring Tamsin Greig (Online for Bitter Pill Theatre). Most recently she has adapted the novel The Passenger by Alexander Ulrich Boschwitz for stage. Discussed: Jewish jokes, pancakes, bullying, head braces, The Passenger from book to stage, Being pregnant at uni, filming abattoirs, her grandfather Yehudi Menuin, silence, pervs in pants, going to prison, Pimlico Opera, mental healthSupport this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!Nils-Hennes Stear is an assistant professor in philosophy, at Uppsala Universitet. His work mostly focuses on questions about ethical and aesthetic values in artworks, the imagination, and other broadly aesthetic activities. He completed completed his PhD at Michigan.Discussed: Zelenskyy, European armies, NATO, London tourism, beers for the blind, jogging nude, sauna rules, stories from The Passenger, the difference between novels and plays and the challenges of adaptation, fighting with wild boars and dogsSupport this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!Ben Fox is an actor and musician, known for Beauty and the Beast (2017), Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014 ). Ben is a Londoner. Ben is a Spurs supporter. He has been an actor for nearly forty years (Jesus!). Based in south east London he shares his life with two cool people who is a big fan of; a 12 year old daughter called Ruby and Rosie his wife who started and runs the very successful “Foxtots” - a very hip preschool music group - for which Ben writes a lot of the. Brian is their Lurcher. Brian is a beautiful idiot. Discussed: David Bowie, Mondegreens, Waiting for Supple, East 15, odd jobs, director's cuts, Dr. Moreau, writing jokes for Queen Elizabeth I, fools, panto, game of thrones, oh and working with Ray Liotta, Danny Trejo, etcSupport this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!Just a fun lil one here. Less 'ums' and more 'oohs'Support this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA!Today on the show: The Passenger - ticketsHear me on Gaby Roslin (from around 2h:11 mins) - showAlso - CAPES and The TraitorsSupport this show:Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | PatreonBuy me a coffee ☕https://paypal.me/robertneumarkOr support me through other ways:Bliss of the AbyssGive us a rating & review:Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or InstagramMy Webpage:Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com)© Robert Neumark Jones
It's a festive miracle! Brought to you by the one, the only NILS....-HENNES.... STEAR! Merry Blissmas to all and to all a Blissy New Year
It's a festive miracle! Brought to you by the one, the only NILS-...HENNES... STEAR! Merry Blissmas to all and to all a Blissy New Year
Welcome Back to TBOTA! Today on the show: comedian Joe Murphy (BBC New Comedian Shortlisted 2015. NATYS, New Act of the Year Finalist 2016, James Acaster Experience Support Act 2016, Musical Comedy Awards Semi-Finalist 2018, UK Pun Championship Finalist 2019. Co author of Penguin Published All Puns Blazing 2021, Roast Battle UK Finalist 2022 5th place winner. Leicester Square 2022 Quarter Finalist, 2nd place Global MVP Roast Battler. Spirit of the Edinburgh Fringe Award 2023. 5 stars LA times. 'It's great to have him on the bill, shaking things up" - Steve Bennet - Chortle) We discuss: comedy, neurodivergence, survival horror What are you buying, his time being Nicole Kidman's PA, phrenology and MUCH MORE! Joe's Instagram Support this show: Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | Patreon Buy me a coffee ☕ https://paypal.me/robertneumark Or support me through other ways: Bliss of the Abyss Give us a rating & review: Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or Instagram My Webpage: Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com) © Robert Neumark Jones
Welcome Back to TBOTA! Today on the show we have Al and Lauren from the OnBrand Podcast! We discuss everything Russell Brand, including - how awful he was/is/has become?, audience capture, being pro Trump, anti vax, sensationalist headlines, unfounded conspiracy, association with known sex offenders and misinformation peddlers, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, performative prayer, credible SA allegations, his Final Boss, AND MUCH more! IT'S HAPPENING!!! 😜 Video of episode, exclusively for my patrons! Absolutely subscribe and listen to these guys. What a fantastic show it is - find them here: Patreon YouTube Lauren's Instagram Al's Instagram Email: theonbrandpod@gmail.com Support this show: Become a patron and help me make this show. Bonus episodes every week: >> Robert Neumark Jones | creating podcasts and extra content | Patreon Buy me a coffee ☕ https://paypal.me/robertneumark Or support me through other ways: Bliss of the Abyss Give us a rating & review: Write a review for Bliss of the Abyss Like and follow us on Facebook or Instagram My Webpage: Robert Neumark Jones | Actor | Voice Artist (robertnj.com) © Robert Neumark Jones
Douglas Kemp
it's actually jokes
Ruskin Denmark
Amazing. Hilarious. Unique. Brilliant.