Laura Shavin
laurashav.bsky.social
Laura Shavin
@laurashav.bsky.social
Voiceover, podcaster, writer/performer etc
👩🏻👋🏼 fvo1.com
🏆🎙️ offcutsdrawer.com
repped by Another Tongue (voice) and MMB Creative
Always.
October 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
See the funny faces! Well, the faces aren't funny but their voices say things that are & this is what the voices look like. There are some very entertaining scripts in this episode by BBC's Ed Reardon. Find out why they went awry and more... Also JUNE WHITFIELD
offcutsdrawer.com/christopher-douglas
September 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The Way It Is, 4x series on R4, early 00's. Simon Evans was presenter Richard Richard, I was co-prez Lolly Swain + all other F parts (loads) Dave Lamb (Come Dine With Me) & Chris Pavlo played the rest. Writers on here @simonblackwell.bsky.social @jonholmes.bsky.social @dannyrobins.bsky.social + more
September 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What would you do if the great June Whitfield insisted to you that the Beatles' heyday was during World War II? (No, obvs she's alive in this scenario smartarse) This is what @chdouglas.bsky.social did, very resourceful I thought. Hear the full episode here: offcutsdrawer.com/christopher-douglas
September 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
When you give your cartoonist pal an idea for a cartoon, he draws it beautifully, adds an extra gag, it gets published in Private Eye and he gives you a thankyou credit for it...

Now accepting offers for further work as "muse" ❤️👀🤩
September 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I don't just make this stuff up. This is a wee taster of the very real @pierstorday.bsky.social talking about writing for children and for theatre - and in the full ep sharing some lovely and funny stories about all the fails before the success. Ep is right here: offcutsdrawer.com/piers-torday
September 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Podcast thing. Shout out to the cast: Emma Clarke, Beth Chalmers, Chris Pavlo & Helen Goldwyn, with extra kudos to Ms Clarke for reading a poem that would make my stomach knot if it were me, plus it would have to be at gunpoint (no YOU'RE repressed and uptight, SHUT UP)
offcutsdrawer.com/adele-parks
September 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
They SOUND interesting, with all that talk about writing struggles and rejection and failure, but what do they all LOOK LIKE? Well, funny you should ask... offcutsdrawer.com/lucy-v-hay
August 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Faces of the funny. Comedy writer @danielmaier.bsky.social (Harry Hill, Charlie Brooker etc) shares the sketches and stories waiting to be snapped up by producers and publishers... and this is what the performers look like. Check out how they sound: offcutsdrawer.com/dan-maier
August 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Well you've got to, haven't you, I mean it's the mighty @podnews.net... But then it is a great episode and @danielmaier.bsky.social 's offcuts are particularly good. Check it out offcutsdrawer.com/dan-maier
July 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I know you're not all that interested but I thought I'd announce in advance the new logo for my podcast & explain that apparently a picture of a drawer handle - the old logo - was considered insufficient to inform listeners of its subject matter. So yes, there we are. And purple is better than teal.
July 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
These fellas. The latest episode may be audio only but these are the faces that go with the voices. Give it a like or a share if you're a writer or writer-adjacent. (Did I mention it's a podcast about writers? It's a damn fine one, and a unique format) Aaanyway... offcutsdrawer.com/louise-candlish
July 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM
FINALLY taking down old flyers and business cards from the kitchen corkboard and discovered this underneath - the son of my ex who used to visit til he was about 12. He's 26 now. #timeteam #myversionanyway
July 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Apparently posted without irony. You'd think an account about writing would care about things like grammar, spelling and good ol' making sense. The Quantum of Mence though - 007 finally embracing women's reproductive issues? 👏👏👏
July 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
New #actor alert! Not 1, not 2 but THREE new voices in the Offcuts Rep! Please welcome... *drumroll* @helgwyn.bsky.social Marcus Hutton and David Lane Pusey!! *crowd goes wild*‬ Plus the fabulous double Chris combo of Kent & Pavlo. Check em out in the latest episode offcutsdrawer.com/paul-burke
July 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Post the same actor in two roles that show their range
June 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Look at these lovely faces. And they have lovely voices to match! All in the service of storyteller @lynnfergy.bsky.social & her "failed" writing projects. Let's hear it for/with @joxvox.bsky.social Nigel Pilkington, Christopher Kent, Gayanne Potter & Beth Chalmers 👏offcutsdrawer.com/lynn-ferguson
June 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Yeah, yeah, he's a grumpy old sod. But is he really? @ianmartin.bsky.social can harumph with the best of them but then he goes and writes... well, you'll have to listen to the episode to get the full picture, but here's a wee taster. Read by Christopher Kent. offcutsdrawer.com/ian-martin
June 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Took my boy to see the Paula Rego Museum only to find the current exhibition is being advertised with a poster showing a painting... of his dad.
June 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Scottish screenwriter, storyteller & Chicken (Voice) Supreme @lynnfergy.bsky.social shares writing that never made it. Clips performed by @joxvox.bsky.social Gayanne Potter, Beth Chalmers, Chris Kent & Nigel Pilkington offcutsdrawer.com/lynn-ferguson/

#podcast #podcaster #writing #writer #voiceover
June 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I'm sorry, I know I keep talking about my bloody podcast and not about world events, my hilarious dog or the weird ads that pop up in my timeline but... c'mon. The Radio Times. THE RADIO TIMES! They're literally the actual BIBLE of entertainment. So, yeah. Listen and subscribe you fuckers.
June 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Gayanne Potter is an actor in the new ep of my #writing #podcast The Offcuts Drawer. Her voice was cloned by #AI & she's fighting it publicly. She performs comedy, drama & animation in the episode
I made a video. Same voice. One AI, one the real actor
Let's compare
Full ep: offcutsdrawer.com/lynn…
June 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
New episode alert! 🎧 Writer & storyteller
@lynnfergy.bsky.social shares some unfinished & rejected writing projects on The Offcuts Drawer podcast. Actors bring the texts to life. Listen now: offcutsdrawer.com/lynn…#WritersLifef#Podcasts#Storytellingn#CreativeProcesss#WritingTipsp#WritingCommunityty
June 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
😲 Is it a park? Is it a zoo? No! It's... well, yes it's a park, you were right first time 🐓🦆🐢
June 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
You're a lovely bunch - on the whole - and understand the tedious and un-British need to constantly promote or sink without trace. So if you have friends that are interested in writers, or write themselves, please let them know about the podcast & suggest they subscribe. Please, thank you & sorry 🙏🏼
June 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM