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. In this blog, I’ll take you through the lessons I’ve learned 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…

A week ago, I was emailing one of my mentors to keep me accountable for a few goals I had set for myself. I dutifully emailed him saying I had completed the tasks in hand, and he emailed me back with the observation that ‘only you know how hard you’ve…

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…

Learning how to quit well is an essential life skill as in life you will inevitably find yourself in a situation you want to walk away from. This could be project, a job, a partner, or an identity or way of life which has become normal for you and you…