Skip to main navigation Skip to content Skip to footer
CGO Institute
Coaching, Creativity and Making Connections
  • Welcome
    • CGO Events & Opportunities
    • Producers’ Persona
    • Producers’ Pool
  • About
    • CGO Team
    • CGO Associates
    • Chris’s Blog
  • CGO Institute Short Courses & DipCP
    • CGO Institute – Producing a different future
    • Intensive London Producing course
    • Essential Creative Producing – Short Course
    • Essential Creative Producers – invite your attention
    • About the CGO Institute DipCP
    • DipCP Faculty
    • CGO Institute DipCP alum – the diplomats
  • CGO Development – International
  • The Art of Being Heard
  • Books / Resources
    • Reader Comments & Reviews
    • Reading Lists
    • Musical Theatre – making and learning
    • A Musical way forward – vision from 2004…
    • Creative Producers – Mountview 2015/16
  • Contact Us

Tag: producer

DipCP5 Interview Process Begins

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted April 16, 2023•0 Comment(s)

It is hard to believe that we are just about to begin to welcome applications for the Nov 2023/5th cohort of the Diploma in Creative Producing.  3 years ago this month I began presenting workshops across the Zoom network at…

Tags: CGO Institute, creative producing, producer
Read More

Producing – Proper Job – Honest / Employers of the future

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted January 16, 2022•0 Comment(s)

Where would the arts and entertainment industry be without employers who make projects and businesses run, and without programmers who seek out and fashion the array of works which we see in our theatres and festivals around the world.  Without…

Tags: employers, producer, producers' pool
Read More

Theatre around the world

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted December 20, 2021•0 Comment(s)

After only a year of welcoming producing students to the CGO Institute, I am proud that we have become members of the ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts.   In May 2018 I met the leader of the…

Tags: CGO Institute, education, ITI, producer
Read More

National Student Drama Feast

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted March 29, 2015•0 Comment(s)

Thank you to NSDF for existing. A wonderful coming together of young passion for the arts; alongside wise saws and slippered pantaloons offering their support, encouragement, cheers, and critiques to the next generation of theatremakers.

Tags: creativity, integrated casting, mountview, necessary theatre, producer, Training
Read More

Surprising creativity keeps me alive…

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted March 24, 2015•0 Comment(s)

I’m packing my bags for Darlington and the Jabberwocky Market this weekend, and then on to Scarborough for the National Student Drama Festival. Two new experiences for me. On Friday I have a “sold out” day of surgeries for emerging…

Tags: cgo surgery, creativity, Helen Grady, Michael Grady-Hall, producer, Royal Shakespeare Company, Sweeney Todd, Training
Read More

What can you teach creatives ?….

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted May 11, 2014

I’ve just come from a board meeting for Metta Theatre where one of my colleagues has just done the leadership course with the Clore Foundation. Yesterday I finished work with the now defunct, but previously highly regarded, MA in Arts…

Tags: course, education, Kath Burlinson, learning, mountview, producer, theatre, Training
Read More

A Gathering of questions and ideas for you

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted February 11, 2014

We all have something we can offer another creative. They need to ask clearly and invite us in…. On Saturday I hosted the second CGO Gathering which is for people who have taken a CGO Surgery and would like to…

Tags: cgo surgery, creativity, gallery, help, producer, Surgery, theatre, Training, wiltons
Read More
Subscribe for updates
Loading
Recent posts
  • Ballad Lines – a creative journeyJanuary 31, 2026
  • Bristol Dramsoc – always a joyJanuary 24, 2026
  • It’s Done…stop doing it !!January 12, 2026
  • I Thought I’d RetiredNovember 24, 2025
  • Book & Pray / thanks to MobiusOctober 16, 2025
Copyright © 2025 CGO Institute