TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Hamish Pirie, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.
In this episode, Hamish Speaks to David Leddy. David has been described as a ‘theatrical maverick’ with ‘propensity for fearless experiment’ by the Financial Times a ‘site-specific genius’ by The Scotsman and an Edinburgh Fringe Festival ‘institution’ by The Independent. His most recent show Long Live The Little Knife is part of the festival programme at the Traverse in 2013. Previous work includes Sub Rosa, Susurrus, White Tea, Untitled Love Story, Home Hindrance, Pater Noster, Reekie, Tympanic, In The Shade, Through The Night, On The Edge, I.D., Flowers, People’s Parties and Remember Me. 
He is the founder and Artistic Director of Fire Exit Theatre Company based in Glasgow. He was also the first person in Scotland to complete a practice-based PhD in theatre and is much sought-after as a mentor and leader of masterclasses. 

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TravCast - David Leddy

Content warning: Contains sounds of explosives and armed combat

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For this episode, the final in the series, our Co-Artistic Director, Gareth Nicholls walks you through the process of pitching your play to theatres, from research right through to building an ongoing relationship with a company.&nbsp;


How to Pitch Your Plays to Theatres with Gareth Nicholls

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Hamish Pirie, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.
In this episode, Hamish Speaks to Robert Softley. Robert is an established figure in the Scottish arts scene, with over ten years of experience in diverse and varied roles - including disability rights activist, actor and performer, writer, artistic director and supporter and advocate of equality of access to the arts for disabled people whether as artists or audiences.

Robert's professional acting debut was with Theatre Workshop (Edinburgh) in ‘Nothing Ever Burns Down By Itself’ in 2002 and since then has appeared in many productions and has developed his own artistic practice - most recently instigating, co-writing and performing in ‘Girl X’ for the National Theatre of Scotland, directed by Pol Heyvaert of Belgium’s Campo.  In 2011 he was awarded and undertook a Creative Scotland residency which allowed him to develop ‘If These Spasms Could Speak’.

A graduate of Glasgow University with an MSc (Hons) in Business & Management, Robert’s other role is as a director of flip – disability equality in the arts (http://www.flip.org.uk/) which works across Scotland to support individuals and organisations in the arts sector. Robert is also an Artistic Director of Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, Scotland’s touring company that promotes the work of disabled artists in partnership with non-disabled artists and mainstream theatre venues and companies.

Other acting credits include: ‘The Hogmanay Boys’, ‘Asylum’, ‘I Have Before Me…’, ‘The Threepenny Opera’, ‘The Last Little Fish in the Net’ and ‘Hans Christian Andersen: A Christmas Tale’ (Theatre Workshop); ‘The Irish Giant’ and ‘Brazil 12 – Scotland 0’ (Birds of Paradise), ‘Heelz n Wheelz’ (Fittings Multimedia); ‘A (Gay Disabled Transsexual) Love Story...’ (Boygirlfruitflower) and ‘Private Dancer’ (Janice Parker). Film and television credits include ‘Out of Order’ (MacInnes Films), ‘Trouble Sleeping’ (Makar Productions) and ‘River City’ (BBC Scotland). He has recorded a number of dramas for BBC Radio 4.

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TravCast - Robert Softley

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Hamish Pirie, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.
In this episode, Hamish Speaks to Eilidh MacAskill and Fiona Mason.
Eilidih MacAskill is a Glasgow-based performer and theatre-maker, and artistic director of Fish & Game. She is an associate artist with Imaginate and National Theatre Studio. Recent projects include: Songs of Scotland (Arches Live), Everyone's a Winner Baby! (Merchant City Festival and Glasgow Life), Wonder Rooms (Peter Potter Gallery), What's My Sound? and Swap Shop (National theatre of Scotland, Learn), Near & Far (Tramway).
Fiona Mason's most recent project's have included The Red Shoes (Tranway), Swap Shop and What's my Sound? (National theatre of Scotland), Tick Tock Machine (Royal Scottish National Orchestra). Her performances for young audiences with Fish & Game have taken her to to both Imaginate and Take Off theatre festivals. 
  
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TravCast - Eilidh MacAskill & Fiona Mason

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Hamish Pirie, interviews well known playwrights, artists and theatre makers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode, Hamish speaks to Fleur Darkin, Artistic Director of Scottish Dance Theatre, as their latest tour, Yama/Kingdom, comes to the Traverse stage. 

Fleur’s work made under her own company Hotel (2005), Augustine (2007), Low Fidelity (2009) and DisGo (2009) toured to more than 100 venues in the UK alone. 
 
Internationally, her artistic practice has been commissioned by partners including Junges Hundes (Germany), P.A.R.T.S. (Belgium) and Bolzano Danz (Italy). Fleur is a prolific collaborator and her theatre work includes Roam (Grid Iron), Playtime (West Yorkshire Playhouse), You Tell Us What Was (National Theatre of Scotland), Bint Jbeil (Grid Iron/National Theatre of Scotland), The Three Musketeers (Traverse/Belgrade), Virgins (Company of Angels) and various productions for venues including Birmingham Rep, Dundee Rep, Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool's Everyman, Edinburgh Lyceum and Battersea Arts Centre.
Darkin’s large-scale projects include three Glastonbury Festivals, choreographing the world’s first ever science musical, Dr Tatiana, (Channel 4/Discovery) and the 2006 commission Parabolic, which played to a live audience of 25,000. Circus productions include Helter Skelter (Tramway/Brewhouse), War and Peace (Giffords Circus) and her aerial choreography for Threesixty's Peter Pan - "best of all" Benedict Nightingale (The Times) - was seen by audiences of over 300,000 on its two year global tour.
She is a passionate advocate of innovative dance education and was at the helm of The Collaboratory - the UK's first peer-lead choreographic laboratory in 2012. Darkin has choreographed in castles, universities, prisons, schools and nightclubs and written for publications including The Guardian, Icon and The Observer. Darkin is passionate that dance is a powerful means of self-transformation and has worked with participants in schools, pupil referral units and mental health charities. Darkin is currently developing partnerships with the V&A at Dundee and various festivals and venues in India and Brazil for forthcoming projects.

Fleur joined Scottish Dance Theatre as Artistic Director in 2012.

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*Please note, this episode contains language some people may find offensive*

TravCast - Fleur Darkin

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode, Emma speaks to Tony Cox, writer of 'Love With a Capital 'L'' and the first in our A Play, A Pie and A Pint series. 

Tony graduated with a Masters degree from Edinburgh University where he worked in the Dept of Educational Studies and helped organise a teaching programme for local prisons. Then after a stint as a secondary school teacher at Tynecastle and Leith Academy he drifted into advertising, working in London and New York. He has written 2 radio plays, 3 text books, dozens of television commercials and has recently completed a film script for Scott Free. 'Love With A Capital 'L'' is his first stage play.

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TravCast - Tony Cox

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Directors, Hamish Pirie and Emma Callander interview well known playwrights whose work features in the programme at the Traverse.

In this episode and his final TravCast, Hamish speaks to Iain Heggie, writer of 'The Queen Of Lucky People' and the last in our A Play, A Pie and A Pint series.

Glasgow born and based, Iain Heggie is a playwright and director.  His many plays include 'Wholly Healthy Glasgow', 'American Bagpipes', 'Sauchiehall Street', 'Experienced Woman Gives Advice', 'King Of Scotland' and 'Wiping My Mother’s Arse'. He wrote 'Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer' which started life at Òran Mór and was a huge hit at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe. He has just completed 'Tragic', a one man version of the Hamlet story for Subway Theatre and the first Scottish version of Gorky’s masterpiece 'Lower Depths' for National Theatre of Scotland and his latest work is the James 6th monologue for NTS's 'Dear Scotland' at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.


TravCast - Iain Heggie

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. 

Associate Director Emma Callander interviews well known playwrights and theatre makers whose work features in the programme at the Traverse.
 
In this episode, Emma is joined by three writers taking part in Writing on the Wall:  Ella Phillips, a seventeen year old writer who took part in Class Act 2014; Lara Jo Bazzu, twenty-two year old University student and member of Traverse Young Writers and Hannah Jo Doherty Mackinlay, a nineteen year old Class Act Alumni writer and member of Traverse Young Writers. 
 
Writing on the Wall is a project to coincide with the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum with the voices of the young writers we work with throughout the year. Young writers from Scribble (our writing programme for 14-17 year olds) , Traverse Young Writers (Traverse writing programme for 18-25 year olds) and Class Act (our flag ship senior schools playwriting project) were invited to work with the Traverse Artistic Team to create short plays, monologues, one word provocations which will be scrawled on the Traverse walls, tables, fixtures and fittings until September.  These mini plays are the young writers’ ideas on independence, looking towards what happens now and next. The project explored how the young writers feel creatively at this time of potential change and how this creativity can be part of a wider conversation. 

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TravCast - Ella Phillips, Lara Jo Bazzu & Hannah Jo Doherty Mackinlay

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights and theatremakers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.
In this episode, Emma Speaks to John McCann.

John's play Spoiling is part of the Traverse Festival 2014 programme. John is originally from County Armagh in Northern Ireland. He now lives in Scotland where his short  play This Long Time was given a staged reading at the Traverse Theatre as part of Ten and where another play, The Next Of It, was read as part of Stellar Quines' Rehearsal Room 16. He was one of four emerging writers selected to participate in the Playwrights' Studio Scotland mentoring  programme during 2009-2010. His latest play, The Cleanroom, was recently staged by Tinderbox Theatre Company in Belfast as part of the acclaimed True North ensemble project. 

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TravCast - John McCann

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse. In this episode, Emma speaks to Valentijn Dhaenens.

After obtaining a Master’s Degree in Dramatic Arts at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp, Valentijn co-founded his own theatre company, SKaGeN. From 2006, the company has been rewarded with structural subsidisation from the Flemish / Belgian Government for their work as one of the leading modern theatre groups in Belgium and Holland. 
Outside SKaGeN he has worked extensively as an actor in over 30 productions for Belgium’s major companies such as NT Gent, Kaaitheater Brussels and Ontroerend Goed. His international breakthrough came with his own written and directed solo-show BigMoutH that is touring extensively to major festivals and venues worldwide. A follow up called SmallWaR was presented at the Traverse Theatre as part of its Edinburgh Festival 2014 programme. 

Aside from his theatre work, Valentijn is a sought-after narrator for documentaries such as The boy is gone by Christophe Bohn. Occasionally he is a guest lecturer at Belgian and Dutch theatre schools. To a broader audience, Valentijn is best known for his acting in several TV shows and films, most notably for his lead-role in De helaasheid der dingen / The Misfortunates by Felix Van Groeningen which won numerous prizes worldwide such as the Prix Art et Essai at the Cannes Film Festival 2009.

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TravCast - Valentijn Dhaenens

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.
In this episode, Emma speaks to Kim Noble.

Kim is an awarding comedic performance and video artist. His multi-disciplined approach has led him to work across theatre, TV, film, art and comedy He was one one half of Perrier Award-winning, BAFTA-nominated experimental art-comedy duo Noble and Silver. 
Kim’s work uses a provocative and humourous style to expose the human condition: notions of death, sexuality, gender and religion are picked at with dry comedic use of tragedy meshed with absurdity.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

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TravCast - Kim Noble

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights and theatremakers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode, Emma speaks to Rebecca Sharp. Rebecca Sharp is a writer from Glasgow. Her guiding interest is in exploring the intersections between ideas and artistic practice, creating innovative projects, often in collaboration with other artists. Her own practice regularly extends beyond writing to include directing, producing and performing. Her work reflects a wide range of interests and influences: storytelling and folklore, landscape and map-making, ideas of North, archaeology, the voice and multiple voices, memory, reverberation and layering, absence and presence - and a pervading interest in the interconnectivity of thing.



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TravCast - Rebecca Sharp

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights and theatremakers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode, Emma speaks to Iain Finlay Macleod, writer of the current Traverse Theatre Company production 'The Devil Masters'.

Iain Finlay has had over fifty dramatic works produced for radio, theatre, television and film. His work has been shown in a number of countries such as the US, Germany and France. Plays for the Traverse Theatre include The Pearlfisher, I was a Beautiful Day, Homers and Broke (A version of the French play, Un homme en Faillite).

Other plays include Somersaults for the National Theatre of Scotland and St. Kilda - The Opera which was performed in five European countries simultaneously in four languages. Iain Finlay is currently Associate Artist (Gaelic) at the National Theatre of Scotland. He was awarded the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2009. He was Associate Playwright for two years (2007-2009) with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and Writer-in-Residence at Sabhal Mor Ostaig for two years.

The play The Devil Masters was written when he was the IASH Edinburgh University/Traverse Theatre Fellow in 2013, based at the Institute of Advanced Studies for the Humanities at Edinburgh University.

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TravCast - Iain Finlay Macleod - Devil Masters Special

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Emma Callander, interviews well known playwrights and theatremakers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode, Emma speaks to Andy Manley and Ian Cameron, performers in Catherine Wheel's award-winning White. As an actor, deviser and director Andy Manley has been involved with many of the children’s theatre companies in Scotland. He creates performances largely through devising, though has worked on several written projects. He directs or performs depending on what feels right for the project. He started to make his own work in 2006, before that he was an actor. Andy works with a number of artists and collaborators to create his shows and the performances travel extensively to UK and international venues and festivals.

Andy worked with Shona previously on Potato Needs a Bath, which has toured to the New Victory Theatre and he has worked with Catherine Wheels on Martha (Catherine Wheels), the internationally successful White and Kappa and The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk – which most recently toured to the New Victory Theatre in New York.

His recent work includes a small story a co-production between Starcatchers and Theater O.N, Berlin and I Want a Rabbit! for Theater Junges Generation, Dresden. Further directing credits include work for Scottish Opera, Glyndebourne, Macrobert Arts Centre, M6 Theatre Company, Polka Theatre. Andy won the Herald Archangel at the Fringe 2012.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

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TravCast - White

The Traverse Theatre's Writers Podcast recorded over the course of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011. Hosted by the Traverse's Literary Officer Jennifer Williams, this is the second of three interviews with well known playwrights whose work is featured in this year's programme. In this edition Jennifer talks to Zinnie Harris the author of The Wheel.   
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TravCast - Zinnie Harris

The Traverse Theatre's Writers Podcast recorded over the course of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011. Hosted by the Traverse's Literary Officer Jennifer Williams, this is the second of three interviews with well known playwrights whose work is featured in this year's programme. In this edition Jennifer talks to David Greig the author of The Monster in The Hall and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.
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TravCast - David Greig

The Traverse Theatre's Writers Podcast recorded over the course of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011. Hosted by the Traverse's Literary Officer Jennifer Williams, this is the fourth in a series of interviews with well known playwrights whose work featured in this year's programme. In this edition Jennifer talks to Tim Crouch the author of I, Malvolio.   
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TravCast - Tim Crouch

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Literary Associate, Rosie Kellagher, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode, Rosie Speaks to Rebecca Sharp. Rebecca’s work spans theatre/performance, poetry, prose and collaborative projects.  Originally from Glasgow, she studied Theatre at Glasgow University.  Her early plays were produced at the Arches theatre in Glasgow - ‘fascinatingly complex, audacious and at times brain-poppingly clever work’ (Neil Cooper, The Herald): Last Child (2001) and Danger: Hollow Sidewalk (2006).  Recent projects include The Ballad of Juniper Davy and Sonny Lumiere (poetry, performance), Little Forks (live literature), For the Bees (text and music with Mr McFall’s Chamber), Rules of the Moon (text/sound/performance with Philip Jeck), The Unmaking of Mary Somerville (with Stellar Quines theatre company) and The Wakeful Chamber (with a Play a Pie and a Pint, Aberdeen Performing Arts and Sound new music festival); as well as her current play, The Air That Carries The Weight with Stellar Quines.   She currently lives in Fife.  www.rebeccajoysharp.com 

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Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain



TravCast is the podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s new writing theatre. Literary Associate, Rosie Kellagher, interviews well known playwrights and theatre-makers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode, Rosie Speaks to Al Smith. Al's Play Diary of a Madman is part of the Traverse Festival programme 2016. His other theatre work includes Harrogate (HighTide / Royal Court Theatre); Enola; The Bird (Underbelly); Radio (Underbelly / Soho / 59E59NYC); The Astronaut Wives Club (Soho Theatre).  He is currently under commission to the Royal Court Theatre.

Radio includes: LifeLines; Duchamp’s Urinal; Life in the Freezer; The Postman of Good Hope; Radio (BBC Radio 4) and Everyday Time Machines; Everyman (BBC Radio 3). 

Television includes: Shakespeare Live; The Coroner; Father Brown; The Cut; Africa; Holby City; EastEnders (BBC1). 

Awards: BFI / Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize, and the Pearson Playwriting Bursary (Finborough).

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Conceived, produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain


TravCast - Al Smith

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Literary Officer, Jennifer Williams, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode Jennifer speaks to Linda McLean who was born in Glasgow where she studied and trained as a teacher. She travelled teaching English as a foreign language in Europe, America, Africa and Scandinavia before she wrote plays.

Her plays for the Traverse: This is Water, Any Given Day, Strangers, Babies, Shimmer, Olga and One Good Beating.
She is currently under commission to the National Theatre of Scotland, Magnetic North, and the Traverse Theatre. Her new play Sex and God for Magnetic North will be produced in 2012.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain


TravCast - Linda McLean

TravCast is the podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s new writing theatre. Literary Associate, Rosie Kellagher, interviews well known playwrights and theatre-makers whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode, Rosie Speaks to Rob Drummond. Rob is an award-winning playwright, performer and director who has worked with the most prestigious theatres in the UK. Rob is under commission to Traverse Theatre, National Theatre of Scotland, The Royal Court and the National Theatre. 
 
Theatre includes: Mr Write (National Theatre of Scotland); Rob Drummond: Wrestling (The Arches); Bullet Catch (The Arches, Traverse Theatre, 59E59 Theater, National Theatre, World Tour); Quiz Show (Traverse Theatre); Uncanny Valley (Summerhall), In Fidelity (Traverse and HighTide Festival). 
 
Awards: Rob’s plays Mr Write, Uncanny Valley and Quiz Show have all won Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland. Bullet Catch won the 2012 Total Theatre Award and received a Herald Angel.

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Conceived, produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain

TravCast - Rob Drummond 2016

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Literary Officer, Jennifer Williams, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.
In this episode Jennifer speaks to Tim Price. Tim is a Welsh television writer and playwright. 
His play For Once is just about to open (in a few minutes) at the Traverse and his new verbatim play DEMOS will debut on the 24th of April as the culmination of the Traverse’s Write Here New Writing Festival. 
Other stage credits include The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Salt, Root and Roe - nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre; Out Generation; Café Cariad; From The Hip; The Whole Truth and many other plays.  His play Will and George was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award, 2011. Television credits include: Y Pris (The Cockle Farmer) (nominated for Best Screenwriter at Bafta Cymru 2008, nominated Best Drama for Prix Europa 2008, and won Best Drama award at the Celtic Film and TV Festival 2009); The New Worst Witch, Herman and Sherman, Sold!, River City, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Doctors, Holby City, Casualty and Eastenders.

Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk
Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain



TravCast - Tim Price

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Hamish Pirie, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode, Hamish Speaks to Rob Drummond. Rob is a writer, performer and director from Glasgow. His theatre credits include Sixteen (Arches Theatre Festival), Hunter (National Theatre of Scotland and Frantic Assembly, directed by John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett), Post Show (Arches Live!) Allotment (Govan Shopping Centre, NTS new work), Mr Write (Tron Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland), Top Table (Oran Mor). In 2011 Rob wrote, performed and directed his critically acclaimed show Rob Drummond: Wrestling (The Arches, winner of a Vital Spark Award) for which he trained as a professional wrestler. His dark comedy Top Table appeared at Oran Mor last year. Bullet Catch enjoyed critical acclaim and a sold out run as part of the Traverse Theatre’s Festival 2012 programme

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TravCast - Rob Drummond

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Hamish Pirie, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.

In this episode, Hamish Speaks to Morna Pearson. Morna is from Elgin and currently lives in Edinburgh. Her first full professional production was Distracted at the Traverse Theatre in 2006, which won the Meyer-Whitworth Award 2007 and was
nominated for a CATS Award. Morna was given the inaugural Rod Hall Memorial Award in 2006. Her other plays include: Elf Analysis (Òran Mór); The Company Will Overlook a Moment of Madness (National Theatre of Scotland and Òran Mór); Skin; or How To Disappear (Agent 160) and Ailie & The Alien (National Theatre Connections, 2013).
Radio work includes: McBeth’s McPets (BBC Radio Scotland); Side Effects
(BBC Radio 3/Bona Broadcasting).

This episode also features interviews with:
(In order of appearance)
Garry Collins (Geoffrey Buncher)
Anne Lacey (Edie Buncher)
Orla O’Loughlin (Director)

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TravCast - Morna Pearson

During the festival this year some of our productions are offering Audio Described performances. Learn more about those shows by listening to their audio flyer.

Thanks to Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society for producing these tracks.

Audio Introduction - Enough by Stef Smith | #TravFest19

Audio Introduction - Mouthpiece by Kieran Hurley | #TravFest19

Audio Introduction - How Not To Drown by Nicola McCartney and Dritan Kastrati | #TravFest19

Audio Introduction - Crocodile Fever by Meghan Tyler | #TravFest19

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Hamish Pirie, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse.
In this episode, Hamish Speaks to John Nicholson and Steven Canny who have co-authored The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society which features in The Traverse Theatre's autumn programme. This episode also features interviews with director Orla O'Loughlin and performer Javier Marzan. It also features an extract of the performance in rehearsal starring John, Javier and Gabriel Quiqley.

Steven Canny (co-writer)
Steven is a four-time Sony Gold winning Writer, Executive Producer and Director.  As writer and adaptor work includes: No Wise Men (Liverpool Playhouse); Origins (Pleasance and Theatre Severn); Foot/Mouth (Soho Theatre);Spyski (Lyric Hammersmith & National Tour); The Hound of the Baskervilles (West Yorkshire Playhouse, national tour, Duchess Theatre, West End and 30 international productions); A Dulditch Angel (national tour); A Shropshire Lad (R4 adaptation & Cottesloe); Mnemonic (R3 adaptation for Complicite); The Virtuous Burglar by Dario Fo (World Service).  Directing for stage and radio includes: Rik Mayall’s Bedside Tales; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (with Simon Russell Beale); Brian Gulliver’s Travels by Bill Dare; Beautiful Dreamers by James Lever and Nat Segnit;Hum by Laura Wade; People Snogging in Public Places by Jack Thorne; Donation by Sean Buckley; Burglar Bewareby Matthew Broughton (Union Chapel); Eleven Lessons For The Paranoid (BAC); The Observed (BAC).  As Executive Producer credits include: Just a Minute, Now Show, News Quiz and I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.  Work as Associate Director and Dramaturg with Complicite includes: Measure for Measure; The Elephant Vanishes; Mnemonic; The Noise of Time; Light; Genoa 01. Steven was Associate Director of Al Pacino’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. 
 
John Nicholson (co-writer, performer)
 
John works as a writer, director and performer. He is an artistic director of Peepolykus with whom he has toured worldwide since 1995 in 10 productions including The Midsummer Rude Mechanicals (National Theatre). Performing credits include: No Wise Men (Liverpool Playhouse); The 13 Midnight Challenges of Angelus Diablo (Royal Shakespeare Company); Spyski, Jekyll and Hyde (Lyric Hammersmith); The Hound of the Baskervilles (West Yorkshire Playhouse and West End); The Wrong Door, The Bearded Ladies, P.S Sketch Show (BBC Comedy); Brian Gulliver’s Travels, Marley was Dead, Baskervilles (BBC Radio 4). Writing credits include: The Hound of the Baskervilles (West End and numerous licensed overseas productions); Rik Mayall’s Bedside Tales, Marley was Dead, Baskervilles (BBC Radio 4); Richard’s Rampage (Kevin Spacey Foundation) and Origins (Pentabus). Recent directing includes: Force 9 (NYMT winner of MTM award); The First Thing That Ever Happened (Lyric Hammersmith); Advice on Watson and Oliver (BBC2); Sick Room (National Youth Theatre);  Nina Conti - Dolly Mixtures and Mike Mcshane in Mon Droit (Edinburgh Festival and Touring), Paul Merton - Out Of His Head (West End).
 
Orla O’Loughlin (Director)
 
Orla is Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre. Prior to taking up post at the Traverse, she was Artistic Director of the award-winning Pentabus Theatre and International Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. Directing work for the Traverse includes the Herald Angel award winning Dream Plays (Scenes from a play I’ll Never Write) and The Artist man and the Mother Woman by Morna Pearson.
Other directing work includes: For Once (Hampstead Theatre Studio, National Tour); Kebab (Dublin International Festival/ Royal Court Theatre); How Much is your Iron?  (Young Vic); The Hound of the Baskervilles  (West Yorkshire Playhouse/ National Tour/ West End); Tales of the Country, Origins (Pleasance/ Theatre Severn);Relatively Speaking, Blithe Spirit, Black Comedy (Watermill Theatre); Small Talk: Big Picture (BBC World Service/ ICA/ Royal Court Theatre); A Dulditch Angel (National Tour) and The Fire Raisers, sob stories, Refrain (BAC). Orla has also directed two large-scale, site-specific productions: Shuffle with the National Youth Theatre at Merry Hill, one of Europe's largest shopping centres and Underland, performed 200 feet below ground at Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean. Orla was winner of the James Menzies Kitchin Directors Award and recipient of the Carlton Bursary at the Donmar Warehouse.

Javier Marzan  (performer)

Javier is a co-artistic director or Peepolykus.  Work for Peepolykus includes:  The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Spyski(co-produced with West Yorkshire Playhouse) Mindbender, Rhinocerous, Goose Nights. And The Horse You Rode On(The Barbican); Royal Jelly (David Pugh Productions); No Wise Men (Liverpool Playhouse); The Critc (Minerva Theatre); Jack And The Beanstalk, Cinderella, A Christmas Carol (Lyric Hammersmith); A Streetcar Named Desire(Nuffield, Southampton); Beauty And The Beast (Told By An Idiot/Hammersmith Lyric Theatre). Television includes:Mongrels (BBC 3); Clone (Roughcut TV); Extr@ (Channel 4). Film work includes: The History Play: Maggie Heart Galtieri, Hound Of The Baskervilles (BBC Radio 4); Beautiful Dreamers, Cabin Pressure, Marley Was Dead (BBC 4)
 
Gabriel Quigley (Jennifer)
 
Gabriel studied English Literature & Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow. Theatre work for the Traverse includes: Gordon Brown: A Life in Theatre, 15 Secs and Chic Nerds. Other theatre work includes: Enquirer, Rupture (National Theatre of Scotland); Get Santa (Royal Court Theatre); Macbeth, The Demon Barber  (Babel);Strawberries in January (Paines Plough, awarded a Herald Angel for her performance); The City, Bliss/ Mud, San Diego, Love Freaks  (Tron Theatre); White Tea (Fire Exit);  Six Black Candles (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); Top Girls(New Vic); Burning Bright (V.amp Productions); Mainstream (Suspect Culture); Dissent (7:84);Trainspotting (G & J Productions); The Gun (Wildcat); Grimm Tales (Leicester Haymarket) and in many productions for Òran Mór’s A Play, a Pie and a Pint. TV work includes: New Town, Rab C Nesbitt, Gary Tank Commander, Welcome to Strathmuir, Chewin the Fat, The Karen Dunbar Show, Glasgow Kiss, Haywire, Only an Excuse, Millport, Life Support, Bumping the Odds (BBC);  Taggart, Instant Credit (ITV). Film work includes: Festival (Pirate Productions); Psykotika, The Three Musketeers  (Ink Animation); Mandancin (1A Productions). Gabriel has worked extensively for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio 5 Live.
 
Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk
Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain


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