Persistent and Nasty

This special episode of our podcast was recorded live on 15 August 2019 at inSpace at Fringe Central during the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We are grateful to the support of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society for making it happen. Featuring... Hannah Lavery Hannah Lavery is a writer and performer experienced in delivering creative writing and poetry workshops. The Drift, her spoken word the...

Erin McGee is a playwright, dramaturg and Company Administrator for Scotland's leading theatre company for work by and about women, Stellar Quines. Her recent play, Mooning, is part of the Traverse Theatre's Breakfast Plays series at the Edinburgh Fringe. At the heart of the Traverse is a past and present full of daring, forward-facing artists. This year’s Breakfast Plays give a glimpse of the now...

ABOUT THE FULL MOON CABARET The Full Moon Cabaret is an immersive art party with vintage style on the full moon of every month. Mixing high art and low humour, the Full Moon Cabaret is a sexy and subversive evening hosted by Viva Lamore. Each show creatively explores a theme derived from the Native American name for the full moon that month. Full Moon Cabaret was founded by Victoria Linchong (aka...

ABOUT THE SHOWS MARA MARA is an original, multidisciplinary piece, celebrating women through time by means of sound manipulation and electro-acoustic music, performed live by The New Victorians. An ensemble-driven piece starring an all-female Maltese company. From inventors and scientists, to artists and activists. From musicians and politicians, to writers, to fighters, to mothers. MARA is an aud...

Strap in, lads. This one is truly a cracker. Team Nasty sit down for an utterly class chat with playwright, actress and bringer of all round good craic, Meghan Tyler. We discuss her insanely brilliant new play Crocodile Fever, witchcraft, finding your coven, and the strength of female friendship. ABOUT THE SHOW Northern Ireland, 1989. Rebellious Fianna Devlin crashes back into the life of her piou...

What a super chat Louise and Misha have with New York based comedian and actress, Molly Brenner. We talk about her latest show "I'm Coming" and her journey to finally having orgasm. Expect a pretty fascinating and funny chat about female sexual pleasure, consent and more. ABOUT THE SHOW Molly finally had an orgasm. What’s her secret? The answers may surprise you! I’m Coming chronicles comedian Mol...

Louise and Misha sat down to talk to the extremely cool and talented Caitlin Skinner and Mel Jordon about their latest show, "A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego". They are both very lovely people. Well, Caitlin is lovely. Mel is secretly awful, but it's so secret no one ever sees it! ABOUT THE SHOW The multi award-winning Jordan & Skinner present a riotous new solo show that cuts to the bone...

We could have chatted with the Mary's for hours. Their show Girl Bully celebrates feminist bitches everywhere and explodes the patriarchy this Edinburgh Fringe, confronting the mixed messaging imposed on young girls and women. ABOUT THE SHOW New York City-based Rock Rising Inc. presents Girl Bully, a new play by comedic duo Mary Clohan and Mary McDonnell that explores and explodes our use of the w...

We chat with ThickSkin producer Steph Connell, Associate Producer Carla Marina Almeida, Lighting Designer Zoe Spurr and Composer & Sound Designer Alexandra Faye Braithwaite about their work on the incredible How Not To Drown. ABOUT THE SHOW A painful yet uplifting true story of a child asylum-seeker arriving in the UK. At 11 years old, Dritan is sent on the notoriously perilous journey across the...

Another fabulous afternoon was spent chatting with team behind Bobby and Amy. Bobby and Amy is a new dark comedy about foot-and-mouth disease by Fringe First winning Emily Jenkins. ABOUT THE SHOW It's the late nineties, Take That, Tamagotchis, Dip Dabs, and Pog Swaps. When 13 year old Bobby and Amy meet, hundreds of cows dot across the fields and the sun always shines. But when the cows begin to b...

We had an absolute ball chatting with Rachael Abbey, Jess Morley and Sarah Penney - the Roaring Girls and hilarious cast of Beach Body Ready. ABOUT BEACH BODY READY t's the season of cutting carbs, hitting it hard at the gym, and shaving everything from the chin down. Summer has rocked up and the media has us thinking about how our bodies aren't up to scratch and there are companies ready to capit...

Team Nasty sit down with director Madeleine Skipsey and lead actress Antonia to talk about their work on a new play - She Sells Sea Shells - by Helen Eastman. ABOUT THE SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS 'It ain't a fossil. It's fossilised dung. But if he wants to pop it in a cabinet I don't want to spoil his day'. In 1811, the daughter of a Lyme Regis carpenter discovered the world's first Ichthyosaur. She was...

Louise has a fantastic chat with some of the incredible women of brand new play, Drowning. She was in the stellar company of playwright Jessica Ross, producer Kendell Shaffer and actress Aurora Henning. Louise had an absolute blast with these talented, inspiring and powerhouse ladies. They chat all things feminism, pursuing your goals, the #WomenOfFringe initiative and murder! This is definitely a...

In the first of our series of 2019 Edinburgh Fringe podcasts, we talk to the brilliant Cat Hepburn. Cat is an award-winning script writer, spoken word artist and educator based in Glasgow. She holds an MA with distinction in TV Fiction Writing from Glasgow Caledonian University, and an MA Hons in Theatre and Slavonic Studies from the University of Glasgow. Her passions are working with marginalise...

In episode 11 all of our Nasty gals have a great conversation with Jemima Levick the Artistic Director Of Stellar Quines Theatre Company The conversation covers everything from Jemima’s beginnings as a director to changing the narrative our young people see on stage and screen with her current production of This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing to what the future holds for all...

In episode 10 Louise chats to the more than a little bit impressive Sarah Rose Graber. Sarah-Rose is a performer, director, teaching artists and occasional unicorn with a fascinating resume. She's always off an exciting new creative adventure, so it was a lucky delight to catch her for a coffee and a blether. Originally from Miami, she moved to Chicago to study theatre at Northwestern University a...

In today's episode Elaine sits down with Jennifer Bates. Artistic Director of the DH Ensemble. They chat about Jen's most recent work and what she has coming up. Covering everything from Breast milk to taking up your own space. Jen's daughter makes a few guest vocals throughout the podcast as well. Enjoy. Co-founder and Director of the DH Ensemble, Jennifer has directed each of the Ensemble's proj...

In today's episode, Louise sits down with playwright, actress and musician Morna Young to talk about her upcoming project "Lost at Sea", a story inspired by the loss of her father when she was a child. Morna is a playwright, actress and musician from a wee fishing village in the North East of Scotland. She is recipient of the 2017 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship (hosted by Creative Learning, Aberdeen...

We are mixing it up. A CALL OUT to all the women in the Theatre, Film and Television industry in all roles. We want to hear your stories, tales, annoyances. On Periods, Motherhood and Menopause. We will take all the information and make a few episodes covering your thoughts. So please get in touch persistentandnasty@gmail.com. Persistent and Nasty is a script-reading, debate and art as activism in...

Welcome to episode 7. Louise, Misha and Elaine sat down in January to go over all the wonderful ideas gathered at the event in December. From these thoughts the hope is to create a manifesto. The gals chat and discuss many of the hot topics in the industry at the moment. Persistent and Nasty is a script-reading, debate and art as activism initiative for the female-identified voice in stage and scr...

Welcome to Episode 6 comrades. Louise sits down with one of her all time favourite people, Shilpa T Hyland. A recent graduate with an MA in Classical and Contemporary Text at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland, Shilpa is a pioneer board member for Stellar Quines, and is co-founder of the company Modest Predicament. She has previously worked as a trainee director for the National Theatre of Scotland...

Louise sits down with Simone Pereira-Hind and Anna Dawson of Simone Pereira-Hind casting. Two of the nicest people in the business, it was an absolute pleasure to spend an hour with them. We talk about all things casting, gender parity in film and television, career journeys, auditioning and the progress being made in the industry in the wake of the #MeToo movement. And we spent a wee minute or tw...

PARENTAL ADVISORY for this episode. In Episode 4 we welcome the amazing Maureen Beattie. Just before Christmas Misha and Elaine had the chance to chat to Maureen the President of Equity. Critically acclaimed actor, director and all round extraordinary human. We covered many topics and didn't managed to touch on half of what we wanted to chat about. So we will just have to have a part 2. We have ad...

In this little mini-pod we welcome bright young thing Misha McCullagh to the coven. Misha is a talented actress and producer who has joined the Persistent and Nasty initiative as a much needed and appreciated co-producer. Louise, Elaine and Misha gathered for a cuppa and a blether. We chat about having many a #girlcrush and make a tonne of recommendations for all your telly and book needs during t...

Episode Two of the Persistent and Nasty podcast was recorded at the Abattoir at Underbelly. Co-founder/producer Louise Oliver sits down with New York playwright Jean-Ann Douglass to talk about her new play, "The Providence of Neighbouring Bodies". Produced by Dutch Kills Theatre NYC, and presented by Underbelly at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Joining Louise and Jean-Ann are two of the cast...