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CGO Institute / partners in sector producer development

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted January 12, 2023•0 Comment(s)

It is a pleasure to launch two new partnerships this week with Projekt Europa and Omnibus Theatre in Clapham.  In both case CGO is making available support for an individual producer to join the DipCP4 – diploma in creative producing…

Tags: creative producing, Saudi Arabia, Training, translation
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Sad to report

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted December 18, 2022•0 Comment(s)

This week has seen the death of two international champions of Musical Theatre, the first the Dean of the Tisch School course for Musical Theatre writers, Sarah Schlesinger, and the second a much less well known global figure but a…

Tags: mel atkey, musical theatre, sarah schlesinger, tisch
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Tourism…remember the arts

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted December 16, 2022•1 Comment(s)
three muses at enterance to vilnius theatre

In the UK we know that the arts and theatre are a tourism driver. We grandly presume everyone speaks English and where they don’t our global tourism market manages to choose West End Shows or visual attractions which don’t require…

Tags: arts, tourism, vilnius, world travel market
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Life Skills and Tools

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted December 8, 2022•0 Comment(s)

There are certain tools which I have found transcend cultures, artforms, ages, and experience.  They are tools which can be gifted to aspiring theatremakers and producers, artists and creative beings. They sometimes offer light-bulb moments about a person’s artform, their…

Tags: Diploma, theatremaker, Your Life in Theatre
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Saudi Musical Theatre Family

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted October 29, 2022•0 Comment(s)

Tomorrow I celebrate the end of a 17 week programme with Saudi performers and designers working in London, Perth, Edinburgh, Riyadh, Dammam and now Jeddah. An audience of management from the Theater and Performing Arts Commission (think Arts Council without…

Tags: musical theatre, Saudi Arabia
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Infinite patience and creativity

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted October 18, 2022•0 Comment(s)

There’s a magic in puling together a show with a new Ensemble who have never worked together, with minimal rehearsal, 6hrs on stage before a performance in front on an invited audience. The UK/US creative team in Dammam have an…

Tags: musical theatre, Saudi Arabia
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The Producing rollercoaster (and bumper cars)

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted October 13, 2022•0 Comment(s)

Sometimes it is cathartic to read a book where the roller coaster is so much more extreme, the bumber cars are brutal, and the end is never in sight. Especially good when on a theoretical international roller coaster with some…

Tags: musical theatre, Saudi Arabia
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Quiet reflections on international projects

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted October 5, 2022•0 Comment(s)

It is some years since I spent 5 weeks embedded in a country where I don’t speak the language, am in my hotel room as an office for most of the day, and then moved by car to a rehearsal…

Tags: musical theatre, Saudi Arabia
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Saudi MT – inspiring music

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted September 29, 2022•0 Comment(s)

Every nation on earth has music and stories, and many combine these into artforms which are have many names but in the UK would be thought of as Musical Theatre embracing opera, musicals, music theatre and a whole host of…

Tags: musical theatre, Saudi Arabia
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The Err is Human…to Communicate is Divine

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted September 27, 2022•0 Comment(s)

I write this from my hotel room in Riyadh which is, by direct efficient flight, around 8hrs travel from London. However if you travel by Gulf Air be prepared for it taking 48hrs from checkin at London Heathrow.  Well it…

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📣 Introducing CGO Founder, Chris Grady 📣 Ch 📣 Introducing CGO Founder, Chris Grady 📣

Chris Grady is a facilitator, workshop leader and trainer specialising in the support of the next generation of creative producers and practitioners. 

In 2007, Chris founded the CGO.CGO supports freelancers and organisations to forge connections. These may be: internal ones, with yourself and your ambitions; or external ones, with the business or creative world you wish to explore. 

CGO oversees a variety of projects, including Producing, Proper Job Honest, Producers Pool, and Surgeries. CGO also runs The CGO Institute, which offers a Diploma in Creative Producing.

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CGO is a hub for producing creative people. We run a Diploma in Creative Producing, workshops and offer networking opportunties. We support producers at the beginning of their careers in the theatre sector.

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20 Jan

🚨 ATTENTION! CGO have yet another exciting announcement …

🤩 We will be working with @OmnibusTheatre to run another emerging producer scheme!

🔗 https://www.chrisgrady.org/diploma-and-placement-for-emerging-producer-in-association-with-omnibus-theatre/

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16 Jan

Check out this opportunity from @ProjektEuropa and @Chrisgradyorg. 👇👇

Deadline: Wednesday 18 January.

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PROJEKT EUROPA @ProjektEuropa

Are you an emerging migrant producer? Fancy applying to our fully funded bursary scheme and come work with us for 16 weeks?

Deadline 18th January! https://twitter.com/Chrisgradyorg/status/1613852231698190337

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