Author: Chris Grady

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…

Tomorrow morning, at 10am, 9 aspirational creative producers from four countries will gather in the clouds to start the first Diploma in Creative Producing as the doors open on the CGO Institute.  By the end of the first day of…

We are all living through times which most of us have never imagined, and none of us have experienced.  My chosen career is being described as part of a non-viable business, despite having earned a living in it and paid…

40 years ago this week a wonderful man, Ken Fraser, took the headlines with The Stage and with the theatre press announcing the invention of the very first computerised box office system ‘poised to change the face of the British…

On 11th April I wrote a blog entitled Looking for Trainee Unicorns in which I explored the need to uncover the creative producers of the future – the inventors, employers and facilitators of the future. In the last 4 months…

This weekend in my diary was set aside to work for Fiona Orr reviewing 10-15 new musicals at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019.  The Musical Theatre Awards have been consistently given each year since I invented them in 2008 alongside…