Our guest today is Vivien Parry

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Vivien is a seasoned actress with a robust career spanning stage, screen, and radio. Her theatrical resume features performances in renowned productions like Les Miserables, Cabaret, Mamma Mia!, and Top Hat. She has collaborated with esteemed directors such as Trevor Nunn, John Caird, Rachel Kavanaugh, Christopher Luscombe, Terry Hands and Rebecca Frecknall. She’s tread the boards at the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Playhouse, and Aldwych Theatre among others and has toured extensively. Her work encompasses genres, ranging from classic musicals to contemporary dramas. She’s also appeared in television shows like Holby City, Crash, and Beauty and the Beast.

Vivien is 18 years sober. Our conversation covered her relationship to her Higher Power as she understands it and the power of human connection - in life and in theatre. In 2025 she’s reprising her role in Cabaret. A role that had intense parallels to her own life when she first portrayed it. In our discussion she shares how, her unhealthy marriage informed her characters emotional life. Now that her marriage has ended, Vivien is seizing the opportunity to revisit the same role— to heal her tumultuous experience during her first run of the play and to heal her relationship to the character she portrayed.