Excitement ! New Producer Joins the Project & Arts Council Grants For The Arts

This year has been a busy and energetic one  hence the gaps in blogging...However this project still moves forward .. So we have on board now for the this production project, a successful and experienced Producer based in the East Midlands to Boot!  Michaela Waldram Jones is based in Nottingham and has an impressive track record working in theatre and with culturally diverse artists regionally, nationally and internationally. With excellent contacts and great track record across the theatre industry, Michaela will be of great benefit to our project.

Following an extended period of my working as a dramaturge and then director for an brilliant play, A Scholar & A Statesman written by the talented Pamela Roberts - which is in for further development for full production after an immensely successful rehearsed reading at the Attenborough Centre Leicester. I am in the process of doing a Grants for the Arts application on Grantium the new portal used by the Arts Council, for you to submit your application online. 

Initially you need to register your details and project title etc. this  may take a little awhile and then you can ask for templates or download them to work on. to collate and complete all the information you will need of the application.  One of the questions that is asked is about your arts activities over the last year, and how many artists, participants and audiences have benefited.   It has been interesting for me to look back and focus on all I have been doing, and actually calculate these numbers.  What is new this time is including also online numbers, eg, all my youtube video/s views or my blog views
too!

Finally, Actor colleagues and others have been very helpful already,  in suggesting potential actor/dancers to look at later on for the plum character role of Maz for Love The Life You Live..Live The Life You Live Love.   This makes it all so very exciting and real after all this time - can't wait to get cracking with it all - but patience is a real virtue when it comes to making theatre work. I have learnt form experience that things all come together at the right time and not before!

Getting Busy Pre-Production Game On

This most recent period, has been marked by a series of productive meeting with Curve Theatre and freelance producers,  and very helpful advice from Arts Council England, exploring the possibilities for producing Love The Life You Live Live The Life You Love later this year for a sharing for interested venues and bookers. in addition to discussing associate membership and a mentor for me as Director for the project.

After listening to the text, we now have on board the project, an excellent Choreographer, known for truly exciting physical theatre on board with an excellent region al nation and  international reputation. More details will follow in due course, regarding other members of  what will be a first class creative team to be recruited. Along with opportunities created for a Producer and student placements etc.

During this time work has also been done on tweaking, the governance for The Dare to Diva Company Advisory Board. It is likely this group will meet in due course to begin to guide the Funding application/s and oversee the project timelines and development.

All this work is fitted in between personal appearances performances and readings along with teaching and coaching voice and performance skills having moved to a new Performing Arts Academy and venue, after the closure of Sheehans Music Academy

A New Year.. New Developments

A new year begins 2017 and new developments...as the  prestigious Leicester Writers Club Award wining Choreopoem Love The Life You Live...Live the Life The You choreopoem, with text music, physical theatre, still and moving digital media, written by Carol Leeming who will also direct. Highlighting issues e.g.around identity, race ethnicity, LGBT and gender performance, is in pre-production for a staged public sharing at a major theatre later in the year.

You can buy the book anthology and find out more about the Hidden Stories project and anthology, by clicking the links at the end of this blog. Get the book and read this stunning choreopoem included, along with other great writing.

At this exciting, pre-production stage, excellent innovative collaborative creative team are being put together along with funding bid proposals.  A key role will be a producer/arts manager for the project making important links with venues for 2017/2018. It is hoped for this new production, that the piece will have an expanded music composition incorporating choral music

It is expected to be an exciting cutting edge and thought provoking even shocking production. The actor performer required for this ground breaking production  will need to be adept with monologue verse (non rhyming) and a bespoke physical theatre. The narrative which will certainly complicate Briton's historical narrative, with an expected immersive and completing performance.

Do stay tuned to this space for regular updates on the progress of this production.

http://www.phoenix.org.uk/blog/hidden-stories-book-launched-at-phoenix/ http://phoenixleicester.tictail.com
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