Throughout lockdown it has been a pleasure to offer 24 two-hour workshops under the banner Producing-Proper Job-Honest (PPJH). Around 300 aspiring theatre professionals (or just curious minds) have gathered from their bedrooms and gardens across the UK as well as…
Author: Chris Grady
Imagine change…imagine better
One of the joys of running the CGO Institute, and I hope one of the reasons people choose to take the Diploma in Creative Producing. Is the phenomenal level of skill and inspiration which our Faculty offer in talks and…
Launching a career….
On 6th August last year I had an enquiry from a young aspiring producer to do the DipCP with the CGO Institute. Liam McIntosh had not been to University or grown up in a theatre based family, but his knowledge…
Less stress, better health, greater happiness – ikigai
I love to be inspired. One of the treats in leading the Diploma for Creative Producers and coaching is that I meet extraordinary people, and introduce me to new worlds. This week alone I have explored Portuguese classic novelists, reminded…
The Diplomats are coming…
Yesterday I officially sent digital certificates to 9 aspiring producers confirming that they have been awarded the CGO Institute Diploma in Creative Producing. They are the first of the CGO diplomats to go forth into the world. And on the…
Three (well really 11) events in Lockdown
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…
Genes Reunited exploring
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…
Gordon Stratford RIP
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…
Hopeful New Year
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’m Dreaming again…
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…