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Mark Traynor
Contact: marktraynor1@hotmail.com or 07581 813 545
Location: Glasgow
PVG Scheme Record: Yes
Age range catered for: 5 – 25
| Areas of expertise: | Directing, devising, writing, voice, movement |
| Other Skills: | Film making, music and lyrics writing |
| Areas of interest: | Youth work, Theatre, Experimental performance, Film |
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Sophie Rose McCabe
Contact: sophiemccabe19@gmail.com or http://sophiemccabe.tumblr.com
Location: Glasgow
PVG Scheme Record: Member (Nov 2011)
Age range catered for: Nursery age upwards including adults
| Areas of expertise: | Acting for camera and theatre, Improvisation and group-devising, Comedy performance, Script Writing, Dance and movement choreography, fun and educational drama games for young children / beginners. |
| Other Skills: | Ballet, Flamenco, Jazz and Contemporary Dance. Cello and Keyboard playing (basic) |
| Areas of interest: | Community and youth theatre, drama therapy, forum and issue-based theatre, theatre in education, inclusion and participation in the arts for all. |
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Deborah Rennick McArthur
Contact: deborahrennickmcarthur@hotmail.co.uk or 07834 733 681
Location: Glasgow
PVG Scheme Record: Yes
Age range catered for: 2 years upwards
| Areas of expertise: | Drama facilitation, skills based workshops, issue based theatre. Directing, devised and scripted. Glow – writing and developing of Glow Areas |
| Other Skills: | Basic video and editing skills |
| Areas of interest: | Forum Theatre, Devising Process |
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Heather Cassidy
Contact: mail@heatherfcassidy.com or 07867 557 241
Location: Glasgow
PVG Scheme Record: Yes
Age range catered for: 0 – 100
| Areas of expertise: | Youth Theatre, Arts Education workshops in schools / Curriculum for Excellence, Directing, Devising, Interactive Storytelling, Working with young people and adults with additional and complex needs, Arts and Refugees |
| Other Skills: | Cross-artform workshops, Education Resource development, Arts-based CPD Training for teachers, Research, Arts Award Advisor (Bronze, Silver & Gold Levels), Basic Photography |
| Areas of interest: | Youth Theatre, Education work in Schools, Production Support workshops and resources, Health & Wellbeing projects, Leading ‘Arts Award’ projects, Working with harder to reach groups, Verbatim Theatre, Cross art-form collaboration, Partnership work with non-arts organisations |
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Gemma Petrie
Contact: glpetrie@hotmail.co.uk or 07871 382 340
Location: Blairgowrie
PVG Scheme Record: Yes
Age range catered for: 3 – 25
| Areas of expertise: | Directing, devising, voice, mask, theatre in education and movement. |
| Other Skills: | Shakespeare, school workshops to coincide with in house theatre productions. |
| Areas of interest: | Devising, Script work: new, classic and contemporary, collaboration of art forms and arts in education |
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Kirsty Halliday
Contact: kirstyhalliday@hotmail.co.uk or 07773 297 904
Location: Edinburgh
PVG Scheme Record: Yes
Age range catered for: 4 – 25
| Areas of expertise: | Improvising, directing, mask work, mime, movement, script work, voice work, audition preparation |
| Other Skills: | Basic singing and dance teacher |
| Areas of interest: | General drama |
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Amy Watt
Contact: amympwatt@gmail.com or 07754 505 733
Location: Edinburgh
PVG Scheme Record: Yes
Age range catered for: 4-104
| Areas of expertise: | Directing, Devising |
| Other Skills: | Theatre Sports |
| Areas of interest: | Directing, devising, Intercultural work, comedy, outreach projects, working with vulnerable children and young people, one off sessions, long term projects, creating theatre. |
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Elaine Fechlie
Contact: efechlie@yahoo.com or 07704387725
Location: Edinburgh
PVG Scheme Record: Yes
Age range catered for: Any
| Areas of expertise: | Drama workshops with early years, children and young people |
| Other Skills: | Performing, devising, improvising, ensemble pieces and creating new work |
| Areas of interest: | At the moment I am interested in creating new work, community theatre and as an aside I am interested in the Commedia dell’ Arte movments practices and techniques |
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| Previous notable work / work of critical acclaim: | Was part of a group that created the piece “Planemakery Flight School” for the Imaginate Fringe, Festival |








