12/05/2022
Hello lovely people. Here is your update on the next Green Room Session. Hope to see you there :)
Green Room Sessions presents Directors in Conversation
The next Green Room Session will be on Wednesday 25th May at 5.30pm in the very lovely surroundings of Renfrew Town Hall. For this month’s session we are delighted to welcome Shilpa T. Hyland and Fraser Scott, both directors who work in Scottish stage and screen. They will be joined by actor, writer and producer, Louise Oliver, who will be asking them questions about their practise and getting insights into their careers to date. The “Directors in Conversation” will be followed by some light touch networking. Join us in the Lesser Hall space where there will be the offer of a complimentary glass of wine, tea or coffee on arrival.
At 7.30pm the same evening, in the Main Hall, you can attend a performance of Thread – a brand new Scottish musical directed by Fraser and presented by Kick the Door and OneRen with support from Future Paisley and Creative Scotland. We are delighted to be able to offer registered attendees of the Green Room Session a code to redeem discounted tickets for the performance. You will receive this code via email when you register for the 5.30pm session and it is redeemable at check out on both the full price and concession price tickets (£2 off, £12 / £10 respectively).
Book your tickets for this Green Room Session here - https://renfrewshireboxoffice.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173622473
Book tickets for performances of Thread throughout the week here - https://renfrewshireboxoffice.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173623977
About Shilpa
Shilpa graduated from the MA in Classical and Contemporary text at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland in 2017. She has a first-class degree in Theatre Studies and English Literature from Glasgow University and the University of California, Davis. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland.
National Theatre of Scotland work includes: directing Listen to Me (Scenes for Survival), associate directing The 306: Dusk, assistant directing The 306: Day, and trainee directing Anything That Gives off Light.
Other theatre work includes: Directing Revolution Days (Bijli), We’ll Meet in Moscow (Traverse Theatre), Roxana (Paisley Book Festival/OneRen), How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found (Royal Conservatoire Scotland), Miss Julie (Horsecross) as the inaugural winner of the Horsecross Trust Young Director Award, The Dragon and the Whales (Modest Predicament), Atlas (Modest Predicament), Bubble (Royal Conservatoire Scotland), Erin, Errol and The Earth Creatures (Modest Predicament); Associate Directing Still (Traverse Theatre), and Pride and Prejudice (Sort Of) (Blood of the Young, The Lyceum Theatre & others), and assistant directing Crocodile Fever (Traverse Theatre, JMK regional bursary, funded by the Leverhulme Trust Arts Scholarships Fund).
She is an Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre and is currently the Associate Director on Alan Cumming’s Burn, being presented with the National Theatre of Scotland at the Edinburgh International Festival before heading off on tour around Scotland and to New York.
About Fraser
Fraser is a theatre & film director and writer from Paisley, Scotland. He graduated with a BA in Filmmaking from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2020.
He is also the co-founder and director of Kick the Door, a production company that makes new work in film and theatre, and has directed multiple award-winning pieces of work with Kick the Door. Fraser is passionate about telling stories that reflect experiences today and makes work that puts the audience at the forefront. He has a vested interest in the development of new musical work both on stage and for film. He was the Director of Photography and Film Producer on theatre-film hybrid, Roxana, co-produced with the Paisley Book Festival and OneRen. He co-created and was the director of Crisis: A Rallying Cry, that reflected on the difficulties of being a young person in 2022, presented with The Traverse. Other theatre credits include Wh**ey (PACE / Paisley Youth Festival), LAND (Gilded Balloon / Edinburgh Fringe) and Thread (OneRen / Future Paisley / Creative Scotland). His Director's filmography: Burds (2022), Ornamental (2021), A Walk in the Park (2020), Red Laces Are For Punks (2019), The Brave (2018) and Fart Car, which won the Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize at the Glasgow Short Film Festival.
