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 theatre show, previewed at the Tron theatre in October 2018, as part of Black History Month, produced by The National Theatre of Scotland. The poetry from The Drift, will be published with Stewed Rhubarb Press in early 2019. She has been part of many spoken word nights including, Flint and Pitch, Sonnet Youth, Chill Habibi and has also performed at Electric Fields, CoastWord, the Gutter Magazine Party, Solas and Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival.
Follow Hannah...
On Twitter @HanLavery
W: https://www.hannahlavery.com/
Kirsten Vangsness
Kirsten Vangsness is a Los Angeles-based actor and playwright. She is best known in the UK for playing tech kitten Penelope Garcia on the long running CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, which she has co-written four episodes of, including the series finale. Prior to landing that most excellent day job, Kirsten was – and still is – deeply involved in the LA theatre scene; she is a long-time member of Hollywood’s Theatre of NOTE and has been in shows all over town. She is the star and executive producer of the film noir spoof Kill Me, Deadly, which can be found on many streaming platforms and can currently be heard on season two of the comedy podcast Voyage to the Stars. She is the recipient of the HRC Visibility Award, the Open Fist Excellence in Arts Award and the L.A. Drama Critics Award for best actress.
Follow Kirsten...
On Twitter @Vangsness
Rose Riley (representing ERA 50:50)
Rose is an actor, voiceover artist and activist. Her theatre credits include: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in the West End, Re:Home at The Yard, Tiger Country at The Hampstead Theatre, and the revival of Simon Stephen’s One Minute at The Vaults. Screen credits include internationally award-winning short film Eli, directed by Colin Gerrard, and indie feature film 90 Minutes, directed by Simon Baker, produced by Vertigo Films and El Capitan. Rose is a Core Committee member and the Campaign Coordinator for ERA 5050, a grassroots organisation that is campaigning for gender equality on our stages and screens. Whilst working with ERA she has helped organise the ERA 5050 launch at BAFTA in February 2018; run and overseen projects that currently span research into gender diversity across the industry; worked with theatres on their gender diversity quotas, both on and off the stage; and helped organise the annual ‘badge bombing’ of award ceremonies. She is the co-host of ERA 5050’s podcast The New ERA, which launched in May of this year, and she is probably the first person to respond if you get in touch via email.
Follow Rose...
On Twitter @RoseHFRiley / @ERA50_50
W: http://equalrepresentationforactresses.co.uk/
Carys Eleri
Carys is a BAFTA-nominated actress and singer from west Wales. Her acting career started in 2004, when she earned a two-year contract as a resident actor with Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, the Welsh language National Theatre of Wales. From 2015-2018 Carys played the lead character Myfanwy (a vicar) in Parch on S4C – earning a BAFTA nomination for her performance in 2017. In recent years Carys has been part of the notorious Charlotte Church’s Late Night Pop Dungeon, singing backing vocals and occasionally taking the lead with some heavy metal vocals. In 2013, Carys won the Norman Beaton Fellowship and a five-month contract with the BBC, recording several radio plays for Radio 4.
Follow Cerys on...
Twitter @caryseleri
W:https://www.caryseleri.com/
