Fife College Tuesday 29 November Information Pack. About SDTN. Programme. Workshops. Biographies. Useful Contacts

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1 Fife College Tuesday 29 November 2016 Information Pack About SDTN Programme Workshops Biographies Useful Contacts

2 The Scottish Drama Training Network (SDTN) is a unique organisation dedicated to developing practice-based drama training in Scotland. A Scottish Funding Council initiative, SDTN is based at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow and is a network organisation of 17 colleges and higher education institutions who provide practical training in Theatre, Film, Television and Radio subjects. Our strategic aims are: About Scottish Drama Training Network - Promote and influence practice-based drama training in Scotland - Facilitate engagement across the Scottish Drama Training Network, education and industry - Enhance practice-based drama training through the sharing of best practice - Advocate for wider inclusion in practice-based drama provision - Ensure a sustainable future for the Scottish Drama Training Network Lucy Vaughan, Director Abigail McMillan, Technical Theatre Skills Officer Laura Gregson, Network Development Officer

3 What You Need To Know Programme Group 2 10am 10.30am-11.30am 11.30am pm 12.30pm pm 1.15pm pm 2.15pm pm 3.30pm pm Registration The Atrium W1 - BF20 The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society Rachel Sanger and Lyndsey McLean How to bring your show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. W2 - BF21 Scottish Institute for Enterprise Daniel Quinn Visualisng your business model Break W3 - BF18 Abigail Carney Surviving / Thriving? Self-employment in the Creative Industries W4A - Studio Theatre Nick Farr Introduction to Theatre Casting: the other side of the table W4B - Technical Workshop Scottish Drama Training Network Abigail McMillan Get In to Technical Theatre Panel Q&A (HN only) Chair: Lucy Vaughan, Scottish Drama Training Network Maryam Hunwick, Hunwick Hughes Ltd John Stuart, I Know a Guy Productions Jenna Watt, Fringe First Award winning Theatre Maker Q&A

4 Workshops Visualising Your Business Model Scottish Institute for Enterprise Daniel Quinn Thinking about starting your own business but not sure where to start? The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management and lean start up tool which can help you do just that, by separating any business into nine distinct building blocks. Through this session, we will look at how one of the most famous brands in modern culture uses this tool to deliver value to consumers before inviting you to apply it to your own ideas. How to bring your show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society Rachel Sanger and Lyndsey McLean Find out how to bring a show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in this interactive workshop run by Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society staff. Take on the role of a company performing at the Fringe, choose your venue and set your budget. This workshop will answer your questions on bringing a show to Edinburgh and leave you feeling ready to conquer the Fringe! Introduction to Theatre Casting: the other side of the table Nick Farr This casting workshop will explore the audition process to help performers understand the thinking and point of view of directors, casting directors or producers who are on the other side of the table. NB - this is a practical workshop for Acting students. Get In to Technical Theatre Scottish Drama Training Network Abigail McMillan What happens at an interview for a technical or theatre design job? Come and find out how you can be more prepared for your first interview as a technician or member of the creative team. Surviving / Thriving? Self-employment in the Creative Industries Abigail Carney This workshop will invite participants to consider and discuss a six point check list to flourish as a self-employed person in the Creative Industries sector. You will leave with a sense of your own what, who and how, as well as finding out what D.A.F.T. stands for and developing your own tool kit for self-employed success.

5 The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society Rachel Sanger and Lyndsey McLean The Society is the organisation that underpins the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The founding principle at the heart of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - to be an open access arts event that accommodates anyone with a story to tell and a venue willing to host them - still regulates the work of the Society today. It is our policy that no single individual or committee determines who can or cannot perform at the Fringe. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is a registered charity with three core objectives: - Providing support, advice and encouragement to all the amazing artists, producers and venues who create the Fringe each year, from help with choosing a venue or writing a press release, to advice on touring, free access to rehearsal space, and professional development activities and events - Assisting the audiences who come to Edinburgh by helping you navigate what s on offer with comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information and ticketing - Promoting this wonderful and unique festival to the rest of the world Scottish Institute for Enterprise Daniel Quinn SIE is funded by the Scottish Funding Council and Scottish Enterprise to help students in Scotland develop enterprise skills, discover their entrepreneurial talent and start up their own ventures. Entrepreneurship is an exciting and empowering life skill which brings many benefits to the individual and society. SIE works within the 19 HEIs and several colleges in Scotland to help students develop enterprise skills, discover their entrepreneurial talent and start up their own ventures. We do this through our nationwide education programme, our cash prize competitions and supporting student start ups through our 1:1 business support offered by our Senior Business and Innovation Advisors.

6 Maryam Hunwick Managing Director, Hunwick Hughes Maryam Hunwick is the Managing Director of the actors agency Hunwick Hughes. Previously she worked for the BBC, in business affairs, talent rights and publishing in their multi media divisions, then as manager of the BBC Worldwide spoken word rights department. Since 2000 she has guided the careers of a select book of multi award winning stage and screen actors in UK and international film, tv and theatre productions including BAFTA and BIFA award winners Kate Dickie, Conor McCarron, Katie Jarvis, Eileen McCallum, Kathleen McDermott, Jayd Johnson and Martin Compston. Maryam has an extensive knowledge of film, television, radio and theatre performance and practice, arts and media business and production. Hunwick Hughes works with partners to open doors for creative young people. In 2014/15 they were associated with SpaceClub, Edinburgh, transforming underused premises to provide affordable studio spaces in which to rehearse, exhibit and perform. Previously they sponsored the Royal National Theatre Connections Youth Theatre Festivals Scottish showcases in 2007 and 2008, the Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre Company s schools programme in 2007 and established the Lyceum Youth Theatre Development Fund in The partnership between Hunwick Hughes and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company, Edinburgh, was commended by Arts and Business, Scotland, in Nick Farr Hunwick Hughes Nick is a director, writer, actor and producer, trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. As director, theatre productions include; Our Brutus (London and Edinburgh: Fringe First 1993), Whisky Galore (Edinburgh 2006) and Buddy - the Buddy Holly Story ( ) in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Holland, Denmark and the UK, Booth (New York Players Club / Edinburgh 1993) and Spoonface Steinberg (Scottish tour 2003). As writer: Such Sweet Thunder National Youth Music Theatre (2003), Flight of the Swan (ROH, Linbury 2000) and a new musical W11 (2016). From 2010 to 2012 Nick was a producing partner with Kickabout Films, developing Village on the Roof, Nick s acting credits include Sunshine on Leith, The Angels Share, Outlander, MI High, Hope Springs, Rebus and Taggart. Nick has recorded many dramas and readings for BBC Radio, and theatre credits include Buddy - the Buddy Holly Story ( ) West End and touring, Narnia Chronicles ( ) touring and annual London seasons at Sadlers Wells, Westminster Theatre and Lyric, (Hammersmith) and various musicals, revivals and new writing at numerous UK regional theatres.

7 Abigail Carney Consultant Abigail is a consultant, facilitator, trainer and coach. She has been self-employed for 12 years working across art forms with large and small cultural organisations, in Scotland, the UK and abroad. Before that she spent 20 years working in theatres and festivals, as well as Edinburgh Tourist Board where she initiated Edinburgh s Hogmanay. Abigail is also Associate Director, Lammermuir Festival; Chair of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature; Co-Founder of the Step Up Mentoring Programme; Hon Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, MA Cultural & Festival Management, Queen Margaret University, and soon to be on the board of Catherine Wheels Theatre Company. Abigail completed a Foundation Course at Chelsea School of Art and a Drama Degree at the University of Wales. Her first job was selling tickets at the Assembly Rooms during the 1984 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Her latest brief is working with Charles Jenks and the Buccleuch Estate to facilitate the vision development for the Crawick Multiverse. Abigail McMillan Scottish Drama Training Network From a young age Abigail McMillan has been involved in theatre, learning drama from the late Annie Ingles and dressing for touring West End productions such as the Sound of Music and 42nd Street. Abigail studied Technical Theatre at Fife College and Edinburgh College, she moved on to study BA Stage Management at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Abigail was an in-house technician at the Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling and from 2002 to 2012 she was the Arts Production Manager at the internationally renowned Arches Theatre in Glasgow, working closely with Artistic Director Andy Arnold. Her production credits include; Tam O Shanter; the Samuel Beckett Season featuring Krapps Last Tape, Rockaby, Not I, Foot Falls and Play; large scale productions such as Seamus Heaney s Beowulf and Inferno; and Rob Drummond s Wrestling. Abby has also worked with award-winning producer and actress Cora Bissett on the multi-disciplinary Whatever Gets You Through the Night. Abby has a Postgraduate TQFE (Teaching) qualification from the University of Stirling and works part-time for the Scottish Drama Training Network as the Technical Theatre Skills Officer.

8 Jenna Watt Independent Theatre Maker Jenna Watt is an award winning Scottish theatre maker and writer. Her works include; Faslane, winner of a Fringe First Award 2016 (Contact Manchester, Showroom); How You Gonna Live Your Dash (Showroom /Platform); Fringe First award winning Flâneurs (Summerhall, Battersea Arts Centre, Traverse Theatre, Tron Theatre, Woodend Barn, Mayfest, Play Pieces, Cumbernauld Theatre, Big Burns Supper); Little Vikings are Never Lost (The Arches, National Review of Live Art); and It s OK, It s Only Temporary; the apple smashing piece (Battersea Arts Centre, The Arches, Forest Fringe, Edinburgh Peer Group, The Basement). Jenna creates small to mid-scale multi-disciplinary theatre works that combine the practice of live art and more traditional theatrical forms, and is best known for creating works that explore sociopolitical issues. As a Director, Jenna predominantly directs new writing by young people, emerging writers and established writers. She has worked with companies including; The National Theatre of Scotland, Magnetic North, Unlimited Theatre, Northern Stage, Made In China, Scottish Youth Theatre, Buzzcut Glasgow, Forest Fringe, Junction 25, Lung Ha Theatre Company, National Review of Live Art, The Basement, Edinburgh Science Festival and the Arnolfini. John Stuart I Know a Guy Productions John studied Acting at Stow College and then BA Screenwriting at Central Film School, London in John went on to create I Know a Guy Productions, a Glasgow based independent production company that focuses on creating new Scottish work within Theatre and Film. Since 2012 I Know a Guy Productions have produced over 40 productions in theatre, including three shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This year, as part of his production company, John has completed his first short film and is beginning pre-production for I Know a Guy s first feature film.

9 Useful Contacts There are many organisations in Scotland who can support you in your studies and career choices. This list is full of useful sites which can help you navigate your pathway in the performing, broadcast and production sectors. ABTT The Association of British Theatre Technicians campaigns on behalf of the UK theatre industry. BAFTA Scotland The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is the leading UK charity supporting developing and promoting the art forms of the moving image. BECTU Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union is the UK media and entertainment union. Creative and Cultural Skills Provides industry-led skills initiatives. Creative Scotland Public body supporting the arts, screen and creative industries across all parts of Scotland. Creative Loop Works with Scotland s creative media industry and education to develop talent in Scotland. Education Scotland Information about Scotland s Curriculum for Excellence. Equity UK trade union for professional performers and creative practitioners. Federation of Scottish Theatre Development body for theatre in Scotland. NUS National Union of Students promotes, defends and extends student rights. Prospects Provides tailored education, employment, training and advice services. SAAS Students Awards Agency Scotland provides financial support for Scottish students. Skills Development Scotland National skills body of Scotland and provider of My World of Work, a website dedicated to helping young people assess their career options. UCAS Undergraduate Courses at University and College. The central organisation which processes applications for higher education.