Vivian Panka: From Heather Duke to Regina George and Making Mean Girls History!!

On THURSDAYS we wear pink… and talk Mean Girls, Heathers, Legally Blonde AND handling the internet when it’s doing the most…

This week I’m joined by my friend – and actual real-life Regina George – Vivian Panka. We met doing the Heathers movie together (she was Heather Duke, I was New Wave Party Girl…), and now she’s leading the UK & Ireland tour of Mean Girls as Queen Bee herself.

Vivian takes us inside the *wild* audition process: going in for Gretchen, asking to be seen for Regina, last-minute recalls, and finding out she’d booked it while on holiday listening to the cast album on repeat.

We also get into some big stuff:

- Being the first black Regina George and what it means to see yourself in roles you weren’t “traditionally” cast in
- Why colour ≠ “type”, and how she’s gone from 9 to 5 to Mean Girls
- Learning English from a bootleg of High School Musical 2 (yes, really) and why everyone thinks she’s American
- The reality of Stage Door – vocal health, boundaries, safety, weird encounters and why sometimes it *is* okay to slip out the back

Hope you love this one – it’s stagey, sooo fetch and a little bit therapeutic 🫶🏼

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🎟️ See Vivian in Mean Girls (UK & Ireland Tour) – https://meangirlsmusical.com/

🎧 Watch us together in Heathers: The Musical – now streaming on Amazon Prime Video

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