Lisa Nicoll Productions
June Events
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**Where workshops are marked Free these are free for all signed up members. Where workshops are marked Free/£10 these will be free until a members 4 allocated complimentary workshop offer has been used up **Full day workshops have a reduced rate additional cost **
Monday 9th June 11.00 - 4.00pm
Collaborative Script Inspiration/Playwriting Session
with Lisa Nicoll
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The aim is to work on collaborative writing in a room and how you can work with a stimulus to tell a story with thematic links that has plot, characters and locations that just tell an inspiring story and is not about the ‘issue’
Led by Lisa Nicoll and using the Scottish Eatwell Guide as a stimulus, we will work as a collaborative group to create and write/devise short pieces of theatre which are inspired by the foods that are reared and grown on the land of Scotland and the people who are part of the process.
Through this writing we will be able to highlight the benefits of food which comes from the land and sea of Scotland, food swaps that can be made in everyday life and the obstacles that are presented to us in making our choices, how these can be overcome and the consequences of our choices.
The work created will be shared during the Business/Creative Hub Lunch in July/August at Perth Theatre
This workshop is fun, informative and has a people centred approach to support and keep motivated.
Lisa uses a human based approach and often links with how we ourselves act and live in our everyday life and respond and react to the world around us. As a playwright Lisa has been comissioed and toured work for In Motion Theatre Company and has developed a plethora or short plays with In Motion, The Tron Theatre which have been filmed, performed and many gone onto full production,
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This is a session for creators, actors and writers.
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Free - Members
£15 Non- Members
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Tuesday 10th June 1pm - 3pm
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Tandem Theatre Collective
Jennifer Adam and Mhairi Quinn
From Scratch Night to Development to Commission – Yes It’s Possible!
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Join playwright’s and two thirds of Tandem Writing Collective, Jennifer Adam & Mhairi Quinn for an inspirational session of how through hard work and dedication you can go from writing and performing self-funded scratch nights to receiving funding to developing and growing your scripts for performance and commission.
Tandem is a female led writing collective established and run by playwrights, Jennifer Adam, Amy Hawes and Mhairi Quinn. They travel between Edinburgh and Glasgow showcasing their plays and linking up with grassroots theatre makers as they go. Tandem has new writing at its heart. The collective was formed to create and perform short topical pieces of experimental theatre featuring live music, often composed specifically for individual productions by Dr Aaron McGregor. Since its inception in 2016 they have produced 58 short plays at 26 events including at 2 festivals, Formation Festival in Edinburgh and Rep Stripped in Dundee. In 2022 Tandem embarked on its biggest project to date - The Rock, Paper, Scissors Trilogy - developing three 20 minute plays into three 50 minute plays, performed script in hand at the Traverse in Edinburgh and the Tron in Glasgow in Spring 2023 and 2024. This project also included Tandem's first Musical!
One of Jennifer’s plays that was developed through Tandem - Ivor - was commissioned by Oran Mor’s Play, Pie, and a Pint as part of their Spring/Summer 2025 Programme.. Her play Walk a Mile was one of five plays that won the Scottish Short Play Award in 2017, which also began its life as part of a Tandem Production. She has also written plays for festivals, radio and schools.
Mhairi’s theatre work has been performed all across Scotland and, aside from her work with Tandem, her most recent play ‘Billie’ successfully completed a tour of 58 schools across the country, funded by Fast Forward and Gamble Aware. Mhairi was selected by the BBC Writersroom for the ‘BBC Scottish Voices’ and also the ‘BBC Children’s New Voices’ schemes. She has worked on a variety of children’s TV shows such as ‘Roots and Fruits’ for CBeebies and is currently working on a new pre-school series set for CBeebies screens in 2026
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This is a session for creators, actors and writers and those looking to develop networks
Free - Members
£15 Non- Members
Wednesday 11th June 12.30 - 3.30 pm
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Collaborative Approaches to Text and Movement
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Sarah Marie Mooney
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Are you interested in exploring ways of creating work collaboratively? This practical workshop will introduce you to exercises for finding stimuli, experimenting with ideas, and developing new work as a group. This is a chance to try out collaborative approaches to text and movement which you can bring into your future theatre-making.
Sarah is a director and dramaturg from Renfrewshire. She has worked for organisations including Pitlochry Festival Theatre (assistant director), Playwrights’ Studio Scotland (trainee dramaturg), Framework Theatre (director) and Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting (reader). She is a co-founder of Play Full Theatre which produces scratch nights and opportunities for emerging artists. Her own work is created collaboratively through group devising and collaborative co-writing, with a focus on intersectional feminist storytelling and creative access. She is a board member of disability-led Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, support team member for Lung Ha Theatre Company and part-time communications manager for Disability Arts Online.
Suitable for actors, directors and writers, with opportunities to create or observe as preferred.
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Free - Members
£15 Non- Members
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Thursday 12th June 10.30 – 3.30pm
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​Script Reading and Sharing Day​
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​Have you written something? – Have you found an existing script that brings spark?
Today is an opportunity to bring together actors, writers and directors and hear excerpts of work that individuals would like to share and hear for future life whether new or established, large or small.
Come along as a performer to read, a writer to share or a director to facilitate
The aim is to start to build for a wider performance of work.
Lisa will facilitate the day
Send ideas for this session and register interest as an actor or director to lisa@lisanicollproductions.co.uk by Wednesday 4th June Travel and lunch costs covered for participants.
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Members Only​​
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Friday 13th June 1.00 - 4.00pm
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Clare Duffy - Civic Digits Theatre
Creating Theatre for a Technological Driven age
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We are living in a highly technological age driven by phones, data, AI, internet. Theatre lives in the world of live and present moment, human connection. This session looks at how we can make live immersive theatre combined with technology & the data around us whilst also protecting ourselves as creatives and humans.
Dr Clare Duffy is the artistic director of Civic Digits, Civic Digits mission is to create a digital future where everyone can flourish. They are passionate that no one gets left behind in the digital world we now live in and make technology and performance to tell stories about technology that empowers.
Civic Digits created The Big Data Show a digitally interactive live and hybrid performance about privacy, hacking and the value of data which toured.
Clare also created Many Good Men in February 2024 at Hearts Football Club after co- writing it with two groups of young people in Edinburgh. Many Good Men is a piece of digital forum theatre addressing the radicalisation of masculinity, incel culture and the manosphere. “Essential viewing for our time, not only for young people, but for everyone who cares about their future.”
★★★★ THE SCOTSMAN
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Suitable for writers, actors and directors , collaborators and Producers
Free - Members
£15 Non- Members
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Saturday 14th June 12.30 – 2pm
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Creative Hub Lunch
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Eating and coming together is the way to make things flow with ease!
Join us for a free creative lunch (a soup, sandwich and a hot drink)! and a chance to chat and network with everyone. Eating and coming together is the way to make things flow with ease!
Drop Lisa an email lisa@lisanicollproductions.co.uk if you can attend. All about the food and chat!
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Throughout the year you can book a creative one to one session with Lisa for support and development in health and wellbeing and career path.
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To do this email lisa@lisanicollproductions.co.uk
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Members Only