November 2013 - The Diary

November brought my London stage debut at The Lost Theatre and six excellent performances of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE which were well received and a wonderful experience all round. A cast trip to The Globe as well as further auditions & meetings made this a very successful trip south! Then back to Glasgow and the second day of filming on RUN with the Silly Wee Films team at Ruchill Park.

More castings and then The 48 Hour Film Festival in Glasgow. Our genre was 'buddy movie' and we got cracking on 'DIAL-A-BUDDY' straight away with writers Fraser Coull, Mark Harvey & the Creative Talent Connections team. We shot the film in a few hours and it was screened as part of the festival at the wonderful Glasgow Film Theatre on the 27th November.

I finally got to play James Bond in this funny wee short film, another career highlight! You can watch the film here:Dial-A-Buddy (2013) I also recorded the 'comedy' voice-overs and the film went down well with the audience of fellow film-makers. This is the third year in a row I have done this competition and relish the challenges it brings, trying to film a short of 8 mins in only 48 hours, as well as edit, sound and music composition. Great fun!

Delighted also with the first readthrough of my new play, RESTING by the cast of Attune Theatre Company, which Stewart Schiller will be directing in January 2014. It was thrilling to hear my words come to life, and especially in the hallowed halls of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre rehearsal studio.