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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
Previous employers: 
  • National Theatre Scotland,
  • RCS,
  • SYT,
  • Firefly,
  • ELYT,
  • Tramway,
  • Urbancroft
Previous notable work / work of critical acclaim:
  • You can leave at any moment (2003),
  • Karnevil (2010

 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.
Previous employers: 
  • PERFORMANCE includes: Comedy Unit, CBBC , Siri Rodness, UWS (examples of acting for camera) Spectacular Darkness, Stef Smith, Harry Wilson & Cat Easton, Scottworks, Strangetown (examples of staged performance work professional / semi-professional)
  • TEACHING includes: UK Tutors- freelance tutor (Drama and English SQA Higher pupils) Battlefield Primary School (Voluntary)- Classroom assistance.  Dance for All at the Theatre School-Dance Teaching Assistant  Theatre Scotland,
Previous notable work / work of critical acclaim:
  • Script-writer, performer and tour organiser in ‘the Oz Factor’  (Small Change Producations / UWS) community tour of play and workshops.
  • Performer in ‘I ought to have more love before I die’ by Michael Pannikou  (Spectacular Darkness / The Arches) site specific, outdoor theatre.

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
Previous employers: 
  • Tron Theatre,
  • National Theatre of Scotland,
  • North Lanarkshire Council,
  • South Lanarkshire Council,
  • Scottish Executive,
  • NHS Lanarkshire,
  • Tall Ship,
Previous notable work / work of critical acclaim:
  • No critical acclaim – YET!

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
Previous employers: 
  • National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Horsecross Arts, Toonspeak, Promote YT, Dundee Rep, Paper Tiger Theatre / Inver Cottage, Catherine Wheels Theatre, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Lyceum Youth Theatre, Scottish Youth Theatre, Giant, Reeling & Writhing, Visible Fictions, Firefly Arts, Theatre Babel, Borderline Theatre, Glasgow Rep, Mischief La-Bas, Edinburgh International Science Festival, Emergency Exit Arts, Melting Pot Arts, Collusion, NHS Forth Valley, Scottish Refugee Council, Glasgow Caledonian University, Focus West / GOALS, Gilmorehill G12, Argyll & Bute Council, East Dunbartonshire Council, East Dunbartonshire Lesisure & Culture Trust, Falkirk Council, North Lanarkshire Council, West Lothian Council
Previous notable work / work of critical acclaim:
  • Max In The Middle (2009 – 2012) – a week-long intensive drama, dance and cookery project for whole Primary 6 classes, encouraging the children to be active in making choices for their own health and happiness, and culminating in a Sharing with parents and the wider school and local community – Drama Faciliatator & Team Co-ordinator – NHS Forth Valley
  • Life After Iraq (2008 – 2010) – Touring Exhibition of photographs and stories about Iraqi refugees in both Syria and Glasgow – Education Officer – Scottish Refugee Council
  •  My Dark Sky (2007) – Touring Production and Education programme about the White Rose, a group of young people whose key members were executed for openly protesting against the Nazi regime during WWII – Education Officer – Reeling & Writhing
  •  The Crucible (2006) – Directing a community cast of ages 13 – 76 to perform with a professional cast in their local theatre. This production launched NTS’ LEARN department – Community Director (Lothians) – National Theatre of Scotland
  •  I have delivered projects with over 500 schools and in 31 out of Scotland’s 32 local authorities.

TRAINING

  • 2008 / Master of Arts, Arts in Social Contexts (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama)
  • 2006 / Foundation Certificate, Dance Movement Therapy (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh)
  • 2003 / M.A. (Joint Honours), Theatre Studies & English Literature (University of Glasgow)

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
Previous employers: 
  • Scottish Youth Theatre,
  • Perth Youth Theatre/ Horsecross Arts,
  • Promote YT,
  • Perth & Kinross Council,
  • Borderline Theatre Company,
  • Kings Theatre Glasgow.
Previous notable work / work of critical acclaim
  • 4 years of directing at Perth Youth Theatre  (12 – 14 year olds and 14- 16 year olds)Director of 4 Junior and Foundation Courses for Scottish Youth Theatre

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
Previous employers: 
  • Brunton Youth Theatre,
  • Scottish Theatre and Music School,
  • Stagecoach,
  • Edinburgh Acting School,
  • independent projects,
  • Southside School of Dance

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.
Previous employers:
  • Strange Town
  • Perth Youth Theatre
  • Lyceum Youth Theatre
  • Explosive Arts
  • Love Drama
  • East Lothian Council
Previous notable work / work of critical acclaim:
            Co-founder of Orkney Youth Theatre Summer Projects.
          Designed and ran a series of workshops in Lesotho, Africa with dance and drama troupes intended to find cultural similarities and differences between themselves and those in the UK.

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
Previous employers:
  • Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh,
  • East Lothian Council,
  • Dundee Rep,
  • Science Festival
  • and various schools tours
Previous notable work / work of critical acclaim: Was part of a group that created the piece “Planemakery Flight School” for the Imaginate Fringe, Festival