More auditions...unsuccessful I might add! But onwards and this has been another bumper year of castings and self-tapes for some amazing productions, so am quite content to keep on plugging away. But even after over 30 years, a 'no' still stings! Busied myself with more roleplay work this month and shot a
commercial for Merchant City Medical in Glasgow (above) and thanks to Paul and all the team. Back to more roleplay work with Sheffield University and NHS Lanarkshire once again. Been a great year for my corporate work with over 50 roleplay jobs now completed and gigs all over the UK. And they kept on coming with another series of NHS Lanarkshire roleplays this month! We attended the excellent State
Of Mind live Q&A with Shaun Ryder, hosted by Paul John Dykes this month at BAAD in Glasgow, followed by the premiere of the short film THE SAVAGES, directed by Luke Aherne, at the lovely Blytheswood Hotel in front of an invited audience. Great fun and lovely to catch up with lots of pals
afterwards and to take part in another Q&A post screening. I play the malicious millionaire Christian in this comedy drama which went down well and is available to watch here:
The Savages short film and am pictured below at the event with my co-stars Jemima Spence and Gilchrist Muir. This was a fun shoot
and am delighted with the results and to have worked with Jemima and Luke on yet another film. They have set up a fab production company, named Hot Dam Dram Llama and I look forward to working with them again in future! Then a return to the football field and a terrible 0-7 defeat for the Scotland Writers
against a strong Piraten FC team at a sunny Toryglen in Glasgow. Only my second game of the season and just great to be back playing again. We have a series of fixtures next year and a few internationals booked in so am very much looking forward to it! Great fun once again despite the horrendous result.
In other news, REMNANTS has won yet more awards at the North West Horror Film Festival, where I also picked up the Best Actor Award! Honoured and delighted to receive this as and we won BEST FILM as well. The film will continue it's journey around international festivals in 2023.
REMNANTS will also now be hosted on the Shortly.com website, so please check it out. We are thrilled by the reaction of audiences so far, having already played in America and Europe and will be screened in it's 'home town' of Sheffield next month. And finally, just in time for Christmas, THE CELTIC JERSEY,
written by Paul John Dykes was released at the end of the month and available now. I get a nice wee mention in this wonderful book, which has taken 7 years to put together and is beautifully produced and researched. November was a good month, and have now some more work booked in for the start of
2023 with a return to Birmingham for another live roleplay gig. Other projects are moving to completion and hopefully will also join my other short films 1815, Remnants and Rats on the festival circuit. And huge congratulations to both CRIME and GUILT who both won a slew of BAFTA Scotland Awards! Delighted to have been in both of them and for the brilliant cast and crew and creatives behind both.
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