sounddelivery, an award-winning digital media training and consultancy company is hosting The Social Media Exchange to celebrate the power of digital storytelling and its role in social change. The one day event includes a series of bitesized interactive masterclasses, practical creative surgeries and networking opportunities to help charities and community organisations to navigate the changing… Continue reading Social Media Exchange

Patrice Etienne is a writer, actor, director and co-founder of Action35, a social enterprise that helps to tackle youth issues such as knife, gun and anti-social behaviour crimes. An Anna Scher Theatre graduate, he has been acting since the age of seven and played the role of Paul in BBC1’s Byker Grove. After studying film… Continue reading Interview with Patrice Etienne

The WordLovers Society is hosting its fifth anniversary celebration with performances from its Hackney-based writers group. Organised by writer and the group’s founder KG Lester, the event aims to highlight local literary talent, with an emphasis on writers who are part of the group and those who live, work, study or play in Hackney. Light… Continue reading WordLovers Society’s 5th anniversary

Spread the Word is hosting its second Gatekeepers series of debates with writers and key industry figures on the question: Who are the fiction gatekeepers now? With digital technology opening up access to publication, the industry as a whole has become increasingly dominated by big global players – with smaller publishers and retailers struggling to… Continue reading Gatekeepers: fiction publishing

Nuns behaving badly: Cecilia Noble (Mother Peter), Kate Lock (Mother Thomas Aquinas) and Clare Cathcart (Mother Basil). Photo by Simon Turtle. Play: Once a Catholic Theatre: Tricycle Theatre Playwright: Mary J. O’Malley Review by Joy Francis Mary J. O’Malley’s hearty, provocative and award-winning comedy set in an Irish convent school in 1950s Kilburn is like… Continue reading Once a Catholic

Cecilia Noble is gaining a well deserved reputation for her comic timing, quality acting and sterling singing on stage on a CV that also includes TV (Casualty, EastEnders and Silent Witness) and film, such as Storm Damage and New Year’s Day. During her early teens, while attending a strict Catholic convent school in North-West London,… Continue reading Interview with Cecilia Noble

Our writer-in-waiting has been on the Royal Court Theatre’s Critical Mass Programme, Invitation and Super Groups and has been informally attached to the Clean Break Theatre. She has had rehearsed readings of her plays at the Royal Court Theatre, Soho Theatre, Young Vic, Young Actors Theatre and Tristan Bates Theatre.

Cathy Tyson is an understated acting legend. After being spotted during a youth theatre performance in Liverpool, she secured a place at the prestigious Everyman Theatre aged 17 before joining the RSC in 1984. Two years later she landed the lead role in her first film, the British classic Mona Lisa. More films followed, including… Continue reading Interview with Cathy Tyson

South African born actor and writer Paul Herzberg doesn’t shy away from racial politics. Born into an apartheid-ridden country with politicised parents, he was twice conscripted into the army, including fighting in the Angolan war. After studying acting and scriptwriting in his homeland, Herzberg moved to London in the 1970s and enrolled at the London… Continue reading Interview with Paul Herzberg

Adelayo Adedayo is a versatile young actress who works in TV, film and now stage. Trained at the Identity School of Acting, Adedayo’s TV work includes the leading role of Viva in BBC3’s Some Girls as well as M.I. High, Skins and Meet The Bandais. For film she recently starred in playwright Bola Agbaje’s adaptation… Continue reading Interview with Adelayo Adedayo