Reflections on a week of classes about producing on Broadway. I was funded by Stage One to participate in a course on how to produce on and off Broadway in late September this year, alongside 12 other commercial producers. We travelled to New York for classes facilitated by Columbia University’s…

The show I am currently producing, Dumbledore Is So Gay by Robert Holtom, has just completed a successful 29-hour reading in Midtown Manhattan. A 29-hr reading is where the creative team has only up to 29 hours on consecutive days to rehearse a presentation of the production to an invited…

Hopefully you’ve found my tips on pre-Fringe prep useful. But what about when you actually get to Edinburgh? It’s a marathon, not a sprint Whether you’re taking a show to the Fringe for the whole festival or just a few weeks, it’s easy to feel like you need to be ‘all systems go’ 24/7. But remember…

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is an incredible experience and can offers creatives the opportunity to boost their projects and careers. But it can also be very overwhelming, particularly if it’s your first time taking a show. …

There’s courage in putting your work out there for immediate audience feedback! Here’s my advice for artists, producers and creators thinking of taking their project to a scratch night. What should a scratch night application include? What’s the concept behind the show or the piece? What’s the why? What’s the form — poetry, theatre, music, combination? Who’s…

My first steps into being a mentor Over the past few months, I have made my first foray into being a mentor and have found it a wonderful and rewarding experience. I have been a mentee before myself many times, with varying degrees of success (it’s about finding the right mentor rather than any mentor), but when…