Film: Runaway [2017]

This is a film I made last year called Runaway, written and directed by Grainne Grant, who wrote Two Pints

Improv 101 with Paul Mone

Since April, I have been involved in an introductory class delivered by Belfast Improv Theatre. It's taught by Paul Mone, who has several years experiencing teaching improv at the highest level, across many countries. This is all part of a drive I'm going through to upskill across a range of areas ahead of #PilotSeason2019.

Introduction to Singing with Ross Anderson-Doherty

As part of an overall plan to upskill in as many areas as I can ahead of #PilotSeason2019, I decided to improve my singing - or rather understand what I need to do to be able to start singing - so I signed up for the Introduction to Singing class delivered by Ross Anderson-Doherty at the Crescent Arts Centre.

Theatre cuts, a divide and conquer strategy

(In response to this post in The Stage magazine, I'm raising my head above the parapet, and speaking up for the practitioners who have been struggling on without any funding in Northern Ireland, which invariably, includes myself).

𝕴t isn't breaking any secret code pointing out that the arts in general in Northern Ireland have been totally decimated by cuts in recent years. The post-conflict economy was buttressed by very generous loans and grants to NI (most of which was squandered, or stolen, but that's a different website), and the arts began to thrive.

Gillian Reynolds' Advanced Acting for Camera Workshop

Over the first weekend of April, I attended an excellent workshop delivered by The Dublin Central School of Acting, lead by the casting director Gillian Reynolds.