DTF: Doing The Fringe
Episodes
Robbie Gordon & Jack Nurse - Wonder Fools
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wonder Fools is Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse. They met at RCS and make work that is socially engaged – working with communities to help putting on a...
Orla O’Loughlin - Director
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Orla O’Loughlin is currently the Vice Principle and Director of Drama at Guildhall. Before that she was the Artistic Director of The Traverse and Pe...
David Greig - Playwright
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Greig is a playwright, producer, artistic director, and dramaturg, the list goes on. After studying at Bristol University, David Greig started h...
Isobel McArthur - Theatre-Maker
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Isobel McArthur is a writer, director, and actor, best known for doing all three in Pride and Prejudice (Sort Of), her award-winning adaptation of J...
Finn den Hertog - Director
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Finn Den Hertog is a Glasgow-based theatre-maker. He trained in acting at the RSC and went on to have a series of roles across tv, stage, and radio. N...
Laura Keefe - Wise Children
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Keefe is an Associate Director and Head of Training at Wise Children, the theatre company led by Emma Rice.Part of Laura’s role is overseeing ...
Alex Bird - Tortoise in a Nutshell
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Bird is one of the founding members of Tortoise in a Nutshell, a Leith based theatre company with a focus on making creative work that often use...
Sophie Swithinbank - Writer
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Swithinbank is a London-based writer whose 2018 play, Bacon, was developed through Soho Theatre, resulting in her winning the Tony Craze awar...
Tony Mills - Artistic Director of Dance Base
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Mills, the artistic director of Dance Base, joins us to explain what’s happening at the fringe this year. Dance Base was started as a charity ...
Aisling Galligan - Senior Programmer at Underbelly
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aisling Galligan is a senior programmer for underbelly, working across the fringe festival as well as at the company’s other events and their new So...
Lauren Eisinger - Producer
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Eisinger knows the fringe and festival circuit well. As well as starting her own production company, she has worked as a programmer and produce...
James Mackenzie - Artistic Director of Zoo Venues
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Mackenzie founded Zoo Venues in 2000, aiming to refocus the Fringe festival on the needs of the artists. Zoo gives the companies bringing their ...
Sam Ward - YesYesNoNo
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Ward is one half of YesYesNoNo, with producer Rhian Davies. On their website they state that they: ‘make live performance pieces. Most people ca...
Lorna Rose Treen - Comedian
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lorna Rose Treen’s solo show, Skin Pigeon, was a run away success at 2023’s Fringe festival. The show sold out its Pleasance venue, before gaini...
Chris Snow - Head of Artist Services at The Fringe Society
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Snow has worked as a theatre producer, working on around 30 shows, 9 of which went on to the Fringe. He then had a series of roles working in fa...
Mark Fisher - Guardian Critic
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
1983 Mark Fisher performed at the fringe, returning to work in the Fringe office in 1986 and has been a part of every Fringe Festival since. He is cur...
Katie Posner - Joint Artistic Director of Paines Plough
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Posner is the joint Artistic Director at Paines Plough, a touring theatre company that develop new writers and share their work with audiences a...
Fringe Follow Ups
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we chat with three of the people we interviewed pre-fringe, to find out what their experience of fringe 2022 was like. First, we speak...
Lauren-Nicole Mayes - Writer/Performer of Dear Little Loz
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren-Nicole Mayes is a Blackpool born and bred actress currently living in Manchester. She was awarded a full scholarship to Italia Conti Academy wh...
Hazel Anderson - Street Performer and Director of Likely Story
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hazel Anderson is a performer who doesn’t limit herself to one style of performance. On one side, we have a one-woman clown character called Able Ma...
Julian Spooner - Rhum + Clay
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Spooner is one of the founders and co-Artistic Directors of Rhum + Clay, a theatre company born out of Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. The Lecoq ...
Fergus Morgan - Theatre Reviewer
18 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fergus Morgan is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in outlets like What's On Stage, Time Out, The Stage, Vice and The Independent. In th...
Anthony Alderson - Director of The Pleasance
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Alderson is the Director of The Pleasance, both in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe. In this podcast, we chat about the support that The Ple...
Pollyanna Esse - 20 Minutes of Action
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
'20 Minutes of Action' is a piece of verbatim theatre from Pollyanna Esse. Verbatim theatre gives the real words of real people to actors to perform. ...
Welcome to DTF: Doing the Fringe
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this series we’ll chat with the people who work behind the scenes to make this all happen. We’ll speak with reviewers, people in charge of runn...