Author: Chris Grady

5 years ago I took on the running of Producers’ Pool from the founder Julie Clare. We’ve had around 60 monthly meetings across that time including, for the last year, 15 online. The network we have grown in that time…

Followers of my blog will already know all too much about me. Sometimes I explore things theatrical, and sometimes more personal.  Its been 5 years since I spent time on trying to find my half brothers and sisters who I…

Once in a while I have found myself in the right place, at the right time, supported by the right colleagues, and encouraged by the right boss to make stuff happen. Never was that truer than arriving in the disused…

As we begin a new year with trepidation, each of us I suspect has waves of different emotion. I have a mix of lethargy, internal emotional lockdown/freezing, anger at the political measures which have led the UK to this awful…

I have a rich dream life, usually a strange and very enjoyable juxtaposition of mundane and completely surreal – little taxis made of jelly running around the floor, magpies with corkscrew tails, and then once in a while I wake…

I went to Perth Theatre’s virtual live interactive family pantomime with Kath on Friday night. Hopefully last time I will sit wrapped in a duvet booing the baddie and shouting behind you to a dame. Next time I will be…

Thank you to the Falkirk Herald. After 8 months of trying to get some news coverage for the creation of the CGO Institute and the first cloud-based Diploma in Creative Producing, the Herald has covered the story with a special…

My thanks to all those who commented last week on my blog bemoaning (a little bit) the inability to get press coverage for good news.  I am now delighted to have in my corner a glass half full / marketing…

As lockdown continues around the world in varying degrees of severity, the only things that seem to get traction on the news are scandal, disaster, and fluffy kittens.  I am finding it impossible to get any traction on news about…

So what have I learned from the first week of running a new Diploma course online? How have I been inspired, reassured, or worried ?  How will I take this forward as I open applications for the 2nd cohort of…