The Theatre of Others Podcast

TOO Episode 79- Audio New Play Festival, conversation with playwright Colette Cullen

September 23, 2021 Adam Marple and Budi Miller with guest Colette Cullen Season 2 Episode 79
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TOO Episode 79- Audio New Play Festival, conversation with playwright Colette Cullen
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Show Notes

In this episode, Adam and Budi continue the Audio New Play Festival with a conversation with Ireland based playwright of BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, Colette Cullen

Colette Cullen's new play WHEN RACHEL MET FIONA received a rehearsed reading as part of The New Theatre's New Writing Week 2020 on December 9th and will have its UK premiere in The Space Performing Arts Centre from September 28th to October 2nd.  A zoom version THEN AND NOW will premiere at The Main's SOS Theatre Festival Santa Clarita, CA on May 21st.  Her short monologue EVERYONE'S SORRY will be performed by Rachel Leslie for The Drawing Board's 'Evening of Ten Monologues 'on April 26th.  EVERYONE'S SORRY was a Fishamble Tiny Play Challange winner and has been produced by Slackline Productions and Aktualise Theatre in the UK.  It was part of The Lava Centre Greenfield, MA's 'Climate Change Theatre Short Play Festival' in December 2020 and will be reprised for Earth Day on April 22nd.  She has written and directed a number of prize-winning short films for broadcasts which have achieved widespread film festival distribution. She has also written for RTE's flagship ongoing TV drama series Fair City. Colette is developing a feature film script about clerical sexual abuse BLOOD MONEY for Open Shutter Productions. Colette is the Artistic Director of Home You Go Productions.

Colette graduated with First Class Honours from the MA in Directing for Theatre at UCD in 2014. She also has a BA (Hons) in Film and Video from the University of the Arts London and a MA (Hons) in Film Production (Fiction) specialising in direction from The Northern School of Film and Television (Leeds Metropolitan University).

Instagram: @homeyougo_productions

Mentioned in this episode:

Colette Cullen's WHEN RACHEL MET FIONA
Mortimer J. Adler's HOW TO READ A BOOK
Leonard Cohen's ANTHEM


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Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller
Producer: Jack Burmeister
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Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister