Episodes

This week on Friendless I unfriend intrepid comedian, musician, and one of my personal heroes Wes Borg! Wes and I talk about dismantling the competition of art, the recipe of good friendship, and just who really hurt us. All ...

This week on Friendless, James host's special guest Jelani Greynion aka Codename: JG. They discuss the genius of Emily Dickinson, the storytelling of Bob Dylan, the clarity of Lil’ Wayne, and so much more! Check out Jelani's ...

This week on Friendless, James has special guest actor, teacher, and science whiz Shaan Rahman! This episode discusses the culture shock of coming to Canada from Bangladesh, navigating theatre school, and the subtle art of ha...

This week on Friendless I have actress and producer extraordinaire Emily Piggford (The Umbrella Academy, The Sounds). We discuss the sex lives of vegetables, the joys of auditioning, Canadian apathy towards the arts, and so m...

This week on a very special episode of Friendless, I unfriend the incomparable playwright and co-creator of Atomic Vaudeville and Ride the Cyclone, Jacob Richmond! Jacob and I discuss the first time he was naked on the stage,...

This week on Friendless I interview and unfriend Daniel Johnston, Brewery GM and former roommate! Dan and I discuss roommates with benefits if benefits are wallowing in depression together, the unskilled labour of Artistic Di...

This week I’ve got a very special guest on the show lawyer, retired barista, and one of my sister’s best friends, Julia Katherine. Julia and I discuss the Vancouver Island culture of making friends, learning how to speak conf...

This week on Friendless I have special guest video game designer, illustrator, and my brother-in-law, Joshua Muise! Josh and I discuss the unexpected perks of working from home, jocks making video games, joining the Avramenko...

This week on Friendless I have on special guest, actor, director, historical interpreter, and professional drawer Dirk Van Stralen!! Dirk and I discuss giving art away, the power of the viewer, entangling self-worth with arti...

This week on Friendless, I unfriend Fringe Festival star and Travelling Wilbury S.E. Grummett aka Grumms! We chat about lockdowns in Australia, screaming at strangers to follow the arrows, lacking object permanence, trying to...

This week on Friendless, I unfriend UVic alum and charcuterie extraordinaire Jane Sanden! We discuss the perfect charcuterie board, Rocky Horror Picture Show, reintroducing ourselves after being deceived by beards, learning t...

This week on Friendless, I unfriend miniature painter, Theatre tech Swiss army knife, and music impresario, Jensine Trondson. Jensine and I discuss her miniature painting series, letting art be imperfect, how to be friends wi...

This week on Friendless, I welcome Bob "The Builder" Orlando, 3D printer technician, poker wildman, and Dungeon Master extraordinaire. Bob and I talk about the intimidation factor of ghost towns, 3D printing prosthetics, Vege...

This week's guest on Friendless is competitive swimmer turned standup comedian, Victoria's own Katie-Ellen Humphries!! We talk about theatre kids only being vulnerable when drunk, the superstars of Kaleidoscope Theatre, using...

This week on a very special episode of Friendless, my sweet wife Jennica returns in our attempt at a glimmer of levity in reflecting on the past year. We chat about regrettable quarantine purchases, the traumas of travel, lev...

This week on Friendless, I unfriend Tourguide to the stars and linguistic mage Sara Tuppen Veloso! We talk about day trips in Europe, learning languages for fun, the cultural resurrection of Love, Actually, that one James Bon...

This week I unfriend playwright and producer Geoffrey Simon Brown. We discuss adopting dogs, losing theatre work, founding the Major Matt Mason collective and the inevitable legal ramifications of the name, making friend list...

This week I unfriend actor, director and Artistic Director Kaitlin Williams! We discuss quarantine theatre, the brilliant idea of recreating the success of Hamilton, how to do the work when there’s no work allowed, nihilistic...

This week I unfriend animation wizard and dear friend Chad "Wolfgang" Veinot. Chad and I discuss chosen family, disappointing old friends, the origin of the Average Mango clan, Halloween hijinks, shitty Ironman and feisty ban...

This week on Friendless I unfriend host of the Mourning Talk show, Aaron Parker. We talk all kinds of fun topics from how we met through email, sending the wrong vibes by association, cbc comment sections, the lonesome genius...

This week on Friendless, I unfriend my old Bowness High School classmate Kelsey Ledbury. Kelsey and I talk about reevaluating dreams, when the show shouldn’t go on, running away to paradise, artists with jobs, how to make fr...

This week on Friendless I interview poet, graphic designer and former co-worker of mine, Stephen Rutherford. Stephen and I talk about catch-all jobs in not-for-profits, coping in quarantine like an astronaut, what won’t go ba...

This week I unfriend Dave Smith, a scenic painter, set designer and all-around production whiz. We talk about band vs theatre in high school, black box theatres, teaching university during the pandemic, maintaining long-dista...

This week's guest is a lawyer/yoga instructor hybrid (and my older sister) Lisa Avramenko! We talk about being called to the bar, incremental social justice within systems of oppression, aggressive Zoom angles, the tradition ...