Wednesday, January 5, 2022
After only a year of welcoming producing students to the CGO Institute, I am proud that we have become members of the ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, November 20, 2021
Between teaching, I caught three shows – two in London and one in Glasgow. Two shows came with the same heritage – produced originally at the Tron. The third one, a massive production al…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, October 30, 2021
In a previous blog, I talked of the excitement at waking up in our industry. But any time we bounce forward, we have to accept that we live on a rollercoaster. And the rushes to the bottom a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, October 14, 2021
Last night NY based producer Megan Schadler and I were guest panelists on the New York based Theatre Resources Unlimited (TRU), founded and led by Bob Ost. 40 experienced Broadway, off Broad…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, October 1, 2021
As the West End reopens with the welcome return of blockbusters which will get the massive press coverage with red carpets and celebrities, my gaze turns to off West End, Regional, and new w…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, August 19, 2021
I kicked off our fringe experience with Captivate Theatre’s exuberant and joyful Sunshine on Leith. A large company of Edinburgh-based performers and musicians who first presented the show…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, July 18, 2021
So many amazing inspiring potential entrepreneurs have been in the room at Chris Grady’s workshops, networks and CGO Institute events, but now I want to look out for a much broader ‘audi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, January 24, 2021
What made theatre manager Gordon Stratford special for me, as a boss, was his passion for the theatre, his quick understanding of potential audiences, and his willingness to give his marketi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, January 8, 2021
I was talking with a client yesterday, who is a theatre-maker and wanting, like so many, to get back in front of a live audience and to work close with fellow creatives to make work happen. …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, October 4, 2020
At the darkest moments I have to believe there is a future for our industry. I have to believe we will defy our government and prove to be viable. I absolutely believe the way that this will…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, August 6, 2020
Over the last few months I have moved so much of my life and work online, often using Zoom, as so many of us have. Yesterday someone decided I should now call myself a Zj…which sounds fun.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, April 16, 2020
It is a strange time to predict a new world. But I hope that the planned Diploma in Creative Producing will come at the right time for a re-emergence of creative practitioners across the gl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, February 4, 2019
I am bemused. Last night I was at a show which has been an immense hit in its lifetime and has been described as masterful by the press.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
So along with my declared New Year’s Resolution to see at least one piece of theatre in Scotland every two weeks, I will also try wherever I can to say “yes” to the unexpected.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, January 10, 2019
I’ve worked on my New Year’s Resolutions and I know what I need from the universe, and where I have the capacity to welcome some unexpected enquiries or surprises
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, January 3, 2019
I’m a coach with years of experience of helping others to set achievable goals, so I know how to do it. Tonight I decided to ensure I saw an average of one theatre show a week across the S…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, November 16, 2018
My challenge is to bring an opportunity to British playwrights who have a play which deserves to be published and licensed around the world.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
This weekend I was part of an extraordinary workshop which was a first of its kind in Europe, or so I am told. A chance to work on the consciousness explorations of Patricia Albere developed…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
As I get older I network less. As I look out of my view across the Firth of Forth from my tiny office window, I don’t get the urge to go to the membership meetings and first nights which a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, October 11, 2018
This week I was turned down by the Arts Council for a project I have been nurturing for three years. I clearly did not manage to capture the imagination of the assessors.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, September 28, 2018
Time to get the word around that I am a coach – and then the most wonderful email dropped in my inbox from a past client as they tried to describe me to another person:
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
I’m really tired this week, and it has taken a while for me to realise (or maybe remember) this particular freelance syndrome which I get when a certain mix of situations arise. Anyone get…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, September 9, 2018
It has been quite a week with two significant celebrations – my coming of bus-pass age and celebrating the wedding of my daughter Anna to her amazing partner Jonny – who live on a Dutch …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, August 16, 2018
This quick blog is really to highlight one big area which we always talk about. How do you find the right audience for your show, and get them to come in to see you?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSunday, August 12, 2018
Back from London after seeing my son in Imperium (proud dad), I packed in nine shows into two days and already the cream is rising to the top and some images and themes remain, whilst others…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSunday, August 5, 2018
For the first time in 30 years, I am a resident of the Edinburgh area, hopping on the bus or train to travel the 30 minutes from my home to visit the other-worldliness which is Edinburgh in …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, July 29, 2018
If Lin-Manuel Miranda takes six years from first song to full show for Hamilton, then it encourages me greatly when I keep telling new writers and new creative to take their time.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, July 26, 2018
If I was going to find a suitable place to work on a grant application to support the very first piece of work which seeks to explore “How we choose to reveal our bodies through life, perf…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThursday, July 12, 2018
If I have learned anything in my six years with Mountview, and four years of that conceiving, championing and teaching the MA in Creative Producing, it is that the title “creative producer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
It is my last job of work for Mountview after six years with the school – helping the 12 producers on this year’s MA find their way to the end of the seven-week Catalyst Festival.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, June 29, 2018
Some of the reviewers of It’s Only Life still seem to talk of John Bucchino as an unknown American songwriter, which is a shame – let’s hope this production is the start of an awakenin…
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