On 18 July, Peter Eyers dropped the 500th episode of his STAGES podcast, which he dubs “a conversation with creatives”.

To mark the milestone, he finally agreed to sit behind the microphone as the subject of the podcast, rather than in his usual role as the interviewing host, with Mark Humphries firing the questions.

A graduate of the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts and a former actor, Eyers is presently the Head of Drama at an independent school in Sydney.

He began producing and hosting STAGES in April 2018. His first guest was the legendary Toni Lamond, a leading lady in her day of vaudeville, cabaret and musical theatre in the UK and US, as well as at home in Australia.

Peter Eyers. Photo supplied

Asked what got him started, Eyers says, “I had been a fan of several podcasts, which were basically long-form interviews. And having worked as a drama teacher, [I knew that] a lot of the kids assumed they had to go to the VCA, NIDA or WAAPA for a career, but of course there are many pathways to achieving your goal, so that was one of the reasons – to record...