MAKE ME: A Miniseries About Identity 

Listen on Spotify and Anchor 

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 self-contained episodes 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 and Anchor

Series creator, producer and dramaturg: Hayley Ricketson @whatrickowrote

Series sound design and editing: Oliver Schulz 

The stories…. 

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 2: Proclamation 

‘To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.’ – James Baldwin

When your country is divided, when hate abounds and when the colour of your skin is a political statement – choose joy. Now is the time for affirmation. 

By Ty Greenwood @ty_greenwood / @greenwood26

Directed by Bianca Laverne Jones @BiancaLavernJo / @biancalavernejones

Cast:  Mikael Gemeda-Breka; Akirah Boldin; Melessie Clark; Charles Timbers Jr; C. Kelly Wright

Sound editing: Unmuted Productions

Music production and performance: Jaron Crawford and Carlene Crawford

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 

Episode 4: Myth

The rain howls outside over the Irish countryside, young children are restless and dinner isn’t ready yet – what else to do but tell a story? One rainy Irish evening, Gran enchants Eoghan and Lucy with the mythical tale of Niamh’s journey to the Otherworld and her quest to bring two seemingly disconnected worlds together. 

A queer Irish mythological story based on the Tuatha Dé Dannan.

By Conor Gormally @Conor_Gormally / @cgormally

Directed by Mariagrazia La Fauci @_m_g_c_l

Cast: Gran: Bordeaux Black; Niamh: Julie Maguire; Stranger: Saoirse Connolly; Eoghan: Fionna Gough; Lucy: Ciara Power; Mum/Mother: Caoimhe Ferran; Dad/Father: Fergus Rattigan

Sound design and editing: Beth Duke

Episode 5: This is getting harder

Where do you draw the line between being artistic and being mentally unwell?

Stuck between worlds of certainty and uncertainty, youth and experience, a successful professional exterior and a rapidly deteriorating interior, a famous artist realises she doesn’t know who she is anymore.

By Amy Garner Buchanan @amy_jgb / @amyjgb 

Directed by Mariagrazia La Fauci @_m_g_c_l

Cast: Artist: Amy Garner Buchanan; Filmmaker: Leslie Lenert; Publicist: Jessica Munna; Producer: Tristan Schaffer-Goldman; Friend: Winnie Arhin

Sound design and editing: Beth Duke