We are excited to be hosting our first in-house Scratch night on Friday 4 July 2025 at Òran Mór!
This is a great opportunity for artists in Scotland to start new relationships with our team, and allow us to see the work of writers, directors and performers who we have not worked with before.
We will be looking to support four pieces of new work in their development, with two directors working on two new scripts each and an ensemble of 5 performers making their debuts on the PPP stage.
As part of this, we are calling out for writers and directors for this new scratch night.
Check out the links below to find out more and how to apply. Applications close Monday 9 June, 12pm.
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Join us for an exciting post-show discussion on Wed 9 April for next week’s surreal comedy-drama Ivor, about the secrets and survival of three women on one unforgettable birthday.
On the panel: Writer Jennifer Adam, director Catriona MacLeod and the cast Alice Glass, Laura Harvey and Betty Valencia. They will chat about the inspirations and themes behind the show, and the experience and process of putting it on stage.
The discussion will happen straight after the performance around 2pm and is included in Wednesday’s ticket.
If you are attending another day but would like to attend the discussion, then please drop us an email at info@playpiepint.com.
Owing to interpreter availability, we have been forced to cancel our BSLI offer for Wasps this Saturday 22 March. The performance will go ahead as standard.
We are taking this opportunity to embrace recent feedback from some of Glasgow’s d/Deaf community and reallocate the cost into further research around access as a deeper investment into provisions for d/Deaf audiences at PPP.
We hope to use our improved understanding to create more valuable offers in future seasons.
The scheduled BSLI performance of Nun of Your Business will still take place on Saturday 26 April. We are also hoping to maintain BSLI for all performances of The Sunshine Spa, which will also be captioned.
Please see our Accessibility page for more information on our accessibility in the venue and our continuing work to improve this.
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Join us for a wonderful evening in the West End of Glasgow on Tuesday 8 April, as part of A Play, A Pie and A Pint’s 20th Anniversary celebrations, with a special screening of the BBC documentary film A Play, A Pie and A Pint: Scotland’s Theatre Revolution.
The evening will commence with a welcome drink at the historic Grosvenor Picture Theatre, where the documentary will be screened. The screening will be followed by a special in-person panel with A Play, A Pie, and A Pint founding members Colin Beattie, Juliet Cadzow, and Dave Anderson sharing stories from the past 20 years of the lunchtime theatre company’s extraordinary history.
The documentary was first televised in 2014 in celebration of our 10th anniversary, and in commemoration of the life & work of David MacLennan, who created A Play, A Pie and A Pint, as well as co-founding influential Scottish theatre companies Wildcat and 7:84.
The documentary was directed and produced by Elly Taylor, with Pauline Law as executive producer and Peter Mullan as narrator. It features archive interviews with Scottish theatre legends Robbie Coltrane, David Hayman, Liz Lochhead and Bill Paterson.
The evening will commence with a welcome drink at the historic Grosvenor Picture Theatre, where the documentary will be screened. The screening will be followed by a special in-person panel with A Play, A Pie, and A Pint founding members Colin Beattie, Juliet Cadzow, and Dave Anderson sharing stories from the past 20 years of the lunchtime theatre company’s extraordinary history.
For those wanting to keep the celebrations going, there will be a tasty buffet to tuck into at Fonn Mór, Òran Mór’s intimate piano & wine bar, straight after the panel.
There are two ticket types available:
Ticket Type 1 – Welcome Drink at the Grosvenor and entry to the screening.
Ticket Type 2 – The above, as well as a buffet at Fonn Mór.
Tickets are on sale now online at Ticketweb, or you can book with Box Office by calling 0141 357 6211 (option 4) or in person.
Due to unforeseeable personal circumstances, Hellby Jonny & The Baptists is unfortunately no longer able to go ahead as part of this season. While cancellation is always an absolute last resort at A Play, A Pie and A Pint, in this instance it was regrettably unavoidable. We look forward to working with the show’s brilliant creative team in the future. We sincerely regret any inconvenience this may cause.
In its place, we are excited to announceKev Campbell Was He, written by and starring Alexander Tait.
Directed by Ivan Hamshaw-Thomas, Kev Campbell Was He is a hilarious and moving one-person show that explores masculinity in modern Scotland.. It was shortlisted for our David MacLennan Award 2024 and received rave reviews at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
The show will perform on Hell’s original dates at Òran Mór, Glasgow (3-8 March), Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (11-15 March) and Ayr Gaiety (20-22 March).
Òran Mór’s Box Office team will contact ticketholders to inform them of the programming change with the option to exchange to another show or receive a refund.
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We were pleased last week to receive the news that A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) has been accepted as part of Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Funding portfolio for the 2025-28 period. We welcome the stability this brings after an extended period of insecurity, for both ourselves and arts organisations across Scotland.
In real terms, PPP has been losing funding year-on-year since 2018, straining our model to breaking point. In that context, we welcome this new agreement with Creative Scotland that secures the future of the essential work we do – championing new writing, staging new plays, and employing more freelancers than any other theatre in Scotland.
Whilst this funding uplift will allow us to maintain our core activity, it is significantly less than what we requested, needed, and planned for. We will now work with our board and staff team, with Creative Scotland and our partners to re-calibrate our plans for the funded period.
For all the challenges, we are excited to approach them in a more stable and cautiously optimistic period for theatre and the arts in Scotland. We congratulate the other organisations who will also receive Multi-Year Funding, especially those receiving annual funding for the first time. We also stand in solidarity with those organisations who were not successful, and with those communities whose access to theatre and the arts is, as a result, now under threat.
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We are delighted to announce our Spring 2025 season, the inaugural season by our Artistic Director Brian Logan since he started with us last summer.
This new season of 18 plays, performing from Monday 24 February – Saturday 28 June 2025 at Òran Mór, will take you all over the world, from a gothic thriller set in the Highlands to an affecting comedy at a sun-drenched Moroccan spa. You can also see many of the shows across the country at our co-presenters Ayr Gaiety, The Lemon Tree and the Traverse Theatre.
Opening the season is Dookin’ Oot, a riotous black comedy from Éimi Quinn (The Funeral Club) which tackles the topic of assisted dying with some classic Glaswegian humour, as a kind carer helps her elderly client out financially with her wish to die in Switzerland by becoming an OnlyFans star.
Other highlights this season include a meta musical-comedy from the award-winning Jonny & The Baptists, a life-affirming comedy-drama about the unlikely friendship of three men recovering from addiction, a revealing drama about Sri Lanka’s exploitative adoption trade, and the infamous Mistero Buffo, with its first Scottish production since performed by Robbie Coltrane over 30 years ago.
Closing out the season in June is a revival of The Inquisitor by prolific playwright Peter Arnott, celebrating his 40 years in Scottish theatre. This cerebral play was first staged with us in 2007 and (by Peter’s own admission!) had a few production issues, so we are pleased to be able to do it again and give it justice.
Brian Logan on stage. Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
“This season has shows offering up all kinds of varieties for all different tastes, with a gothic thriller, jazzy Dundee musical, Greek tragedy, and more for audiences to tuck into every lunchtime at Òran Mór.
“I have no doubt that audiences will enjoy the wild mix of plays and play-makers (newcomers to PPP alongside plenty of old favourites) as much as we’ve enjoyed assembling it.”
Brian Logan, Artistic Director
Tickets are on sale now for all performances at Òran Mór and can be purchased online through Ticketweb or via Box Office on 0141 357 6200.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to be our Communications Assistant at A Play, A Pie and A Pint and be part of Glasgow’s lunchtime theatre phenomenon.
The role is an exciting opportunity to work at the UK’s biggest producer of new writing, working on marketing campaigns to promote multiple brand-new theatrical productions and the activity of our organisation more widely.
This is a fixed-term contract for 20 weeks, at a salaried position at £7,176 (£23,920 pro rata). The hours of work are for 3 days (21 hours) per week. Depending on upcoming funding outcomes, there may be an opportunity for this role to be extended beyond its end date.
Application deadline: 11am on Monday 3 February2025
Please send applications by email only, marked COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT APPLICATION to applications@playpiepint.com.
If you would like to ask any questions about the post in advance of submitting your application, please email info@playpiepint.com with the subject-heading COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT ROLE QUERY.
We are committed to an accessible recruitment process within the current capacity of the organisation, and we welcome alternative application formats as well as access documents. This is detailed further within the job pack, but please get in touch at info@playpiepint.com if you have questions about this.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to be our Assistant Producer at A Play, A Pie and A Pint and be part of Glasgow’s lunchtime theatre phenomenon.
The role would suit a new graduate or early-career Producer who is keen to support the development of 30 plays per year and get unparalleled hands-on experience at the UK’s most prolific producing venue for new work.
This is a fixed term contract for 18 months at 28 hours per week (0.8fte). The successful candidate must be able to start by Monday 3 March 2025.
Salary: £23,920 pro rata
Application deadline: 11am on Monday 20 January2025
If you would like to ask any questions about the post in advance of submitting your application, please email info@playpiepint.com with the subject-heading ASSISTANT PRODUCER ROLE QUERY.
We are committed to an accessible recruitment process within the current capacity of the organisation, and we welcome alternative application formats as well as access documents. This is detailed further within the job pack, but please get in touch at info@playpiepint.com if you have questions about this.
We are thrilled to have been shortlisted for Producer of the Year at The Stage Awards!
The awards, in association with Tysers Live, is highly regarded in the theatre industry and we are delighted as an organisation to be recognised for our achievements by The Stage, particularly in our 20th anniversary year with over 600 plays to produced to date.
The ceremony will take place on Monday 20 January, and we look forward to celebrating with the other incredible shortlisted nominees that recognises our wonderful industry.
“I’m thrilled and grateful that A Play, A Pie and A Pint has been nominated as Producer of the Year in the Stage Awards. In our twentieth anniversary year, this unlike-anything-else theatre phenomenon just keeps getting bolder: producing more new writing than any other organisation, supporting new talent, entertaining big audiences all across the country – and, as this nomination demonstrates, justifiably getting more and more eyes on all that from far beyond Scotland’s borders. Big thanks to The Stage and its judges – and to all the audiences and creatives who made this such a special year at PPP.” – Brian Logan, Artistic Director
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We are delighted to announce that Simon Jay is the recipient of our joint writing commission with award-winning disability-led theatre company Birds of Paradise.
This commission was launched to discover fresh disabled writing talent in Scotland, and as a perfect partnership to hone in on disabled representation as part of our programme of diverse perspectives.
Simon was selected as the recipient from nearly 40 applicants, and his play will be brought to life as part of our Spring 2025 season. He will also receive valuable development support, including a paid first draft readthrough with a director and up to 3 actors.
Simon’s play will be officially announced as part of our season launch in January.
About Simon Jay
Simon Jay is a comedian, writer and performer who has created several theatre shows, including the award-winning Trumpageddon, which toured in the UK and Australia. He has performed his solo shows at theatres including the Young Vic, Kings Head Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre, Hen and Chickens, Chrysalis Theatre (Milton Keynes), and The Old Fire Station (Oxford). Simon’s collaborative projects include John Lewis: Never Knowingly Undertweeted (co-written with Ben Nardone, Drayton Arts) and Is He a Bit Simon Jay? (co-written with Scott Payne, UK Tour). His other plays include 4 Walls (Carabosse Theatre Co. Milton Keynes), Samantha Smith: America’s Youngest Activist (Scrawny Cat, Battersea), and 403 Forbidden (White Bear, Kennington).
Simon is also the creator and editor-in-chief of Neurodiverse Review, a review site dedicated to supporting acts by and for disabled artists, especially at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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As part of our commitment to new writing in Scotland, we are on the lookout for fresh voices and exciting plays to put on stage.
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s script reading service for us is open now until Monday 10 February 2025. Anyone can send a play to be considered for production, as long as it fits the set criteria for our productions.
Previous produced shows, that were sent through this service, including historical musical Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard by Shonagh Murray, monologue Hotdog by Ellen Ritchie and coming-of-age Pushin’ Thirty by Elfie Picket Theatre set in Dundee.
As part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, we are hosting a panel discussion at Oran Mor on how to write a play for A Play, A Pie and A Pint.
Brian Logan, Lesley Hart, James Ley, Uma Nada-Rajah
Our Artistic Director, Brian Logan, will be joined by playwrights Lesley Hart, James Ley and Uma Nada-Rajah, who have all written multiple shows for us and will discuss how best to write a play for this specific short format. The panel will be facilitated by dramaturg Rosie Kellagher.
The panel discussion will last for no longer than an hour but feel free to stay around after at the bar for a mingle and chat.
We are thrilled to announce the publication of A Play, A Pie and A Pint: Volume Two, a special collection of plays as part of our 20th anniversary celebrations!
This is the second volume of plays published by Salamander Street, which was made possible thanks to generous crowdfunding campaign that was match funded by Creative Scotland last year.
The book features eight plays that were first staged at Òran Mór from 2006 to 2023, that were picked by members of our theatre company, both past and present, and by the public.
Rose by Lorna Martin (public choice) – a one-woman play based on the true story about women’s football trailblazer Rose Reilly.
Fleeto by Paddy Cunneen – A knife-crime drama set in modern-day Glasgow, inspired by the story of the Iliad.
Odis by Alaedinne Chouiref, Soumer Daghastani, Arze Khodr, Omar Madkour, Zainab Magdy and Alia Mossallum – a comedy set during the first Arab Spring teaching a live audience how to be a revolutionary.
Tír Na NÓg by Dave Anderson – a magical realism musical set in Tír na nÓg , the “Land of the Young” in Celtic mythology.
Storytelling by Oliver Emanuel – a comedy-drama about two people telling the story of how a man is going to die.
The Great Replacement by Uma Nada-Rajah – a comedy-drama about intergenerational politics and the absurdities of race.
Write-Off by Aodhan Gallagher – a queer comedy-drama about two stubbornly gay men from different generations.
Rachel’s Cousins by Ann Marie Di Mambro – a heartfelt play about a family dealing with the diagnosis of a gene that can lead to breast cancer.
Volume Two also has a special foreword by Scottish theatre critic Joyce McMillan, a full list of every one of our shows over the past two decades, and some lovely archive photography.
The book is available to order online now through Salamander Street. A limited number will be available to buy in person at our shows from Mon 23 Sep, and at our 20th anniversary gala on Sun 13 Oct.
Thank you for all your support and patience, we are delighted to share this wonderful collection with you!
Special thanks to our Crowdfunder supporters:
Anne Adams, Andre Agius, Mardi Alexander, Susannah Armitage, Rod Begbie, Martin Beslin, Michael Browning, Gillian Bruce, David Cameron, Allan Cowan, Alison Cresswell, Jackie Crichton, John Dalby, Scott Davidson, Daniel Donnelly, Marion Donohoe, Jim Doran, Claire Dow, Jacob Dudgeon, Vivian French, Jacqueline Gilmartin, Elaine Gorman, Kris Haddow, Janis Jerome, Richard G Kay, Lynda Kennedy, Kristina Koiak, John Lister, Morven Macbeth, Joan Macpherson, Audrey Marshall, Lorna Martin, Alistair McCLure, Kenneth J McIntosh, Daivd McNeish, John Mess, Calum Moore, Helen Morton, Ishbel Morton, Felix O’Brien, Natalie O’Donoghue, Anita O’Hagan, Kirsty O’Sullivan, Frances Poet, Jacqueline Rinder, Catriona Scott, Joyce Sharp, Tam Shepherd, Chris Spencer, Wilma G Stark, Graeme Strachan, Claire Taylor, George Walker, Anna Louise Wallace, Stephen Walls, Siobhan Walsh, Morna Young, Frances Yule.
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On behalf of Òran Mór, we are seeking a Stage Manager to work on this year’s winter Panto.
The role would suit an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual with experience of working as a Stage Manager at small-scale theatre/touring level who would relish the unique environment of the Òran Mór Panto and the challenges and opportunities that it presents.
This is a fixed-term freelance contract for 8 weeks, from 11 November 2024 to 5 January 2025 inclusive.
Application deadline: 11am on Monday 23 September 2024.
It’s a big anniversary for us this year and to celebrate, we are hosting a special 20th-anniversary fundraising gala on Sunday 13 October!
Enjoy a sumptuous three-course meal in Oran Mor’s stunning auditorium alongside a variety of entertainment hosted by Scottish stage and screen legend Elaine C. Smith.
Throughout the evening, there will be special guests, music and excerpts from previous shows, an auction and much more, followed by a late night afterparty with a DJ.
The night will raise vital funds for the future of our organisation, so we can continue our ambitious programme of shows and support new writing in Scotland and beyond.
So dress up to the nines and come celebrate with us!
We are pleased to be working with Birds of Paradise, Scotland’s pioneering disability-led theatre comedy, to find new disabled writing talent in Scotland.
This commission will offer one disabled playwright paid support to write and develop a play that will be brought to life and staged professionally at A Play, A Pie and A Pint as part of a future season.
This commission is open to individuals aged 18+ with lived experienced of disability or d/Deafness, who have never had a play commissioned by us before, and have less than 2 professional productions of previous work.
Applications are open now and close on Tuesday 1 October 2024 at 5pm.
We are delighted to announce our 20th anniversary Autumn season at Òran Mór, in support of MND Scotland, co-presented with Traverse Theatre, Aberdeen Performing Arts, Ayr Gaiety, Paisley Town Halland Johnstone Town Hall.
This season of 12 plays, programmed by our Associate Director Laila Noble, both celebrates our past with some returning PPP favourites and also marks the exciting future ahead, featuring debuts from some extraordinary emerging playwrights.
Opening the season at Òran Mór on Monday 2 September is a revival of Poker Aliceby Still Game star and co-creator Greg Hemphill from PPP’s inaugural season in 2004. This witty one-woman show about a poker-playing widow will star Annie Grace (Macbeth), reprising her role from the original production 20 years ago.
Brian James O’Sullivan returns with his eighth PPP show The Last Cabaret on Earth which welcomes audiences to join singer Sam, played by Marc Mackinnon (Macbeth: An Undoing), for an electrifying final hour of existence; Jack Hunter takes aim at corporate greed with dark comedy The Wolves at the Door; and Shonagh Murray gives a voice to the wife and mistress of Robert Burns in Scottish musical Armour: A Herstory of The Bard.
Acclaimed comedian and writer Jonny Donahoe (Every Brilliant Thing) brings us the hilarious Anna/Anastasia inspired by the life of Anna Anderson, the greatest imposter of the 20thcentury; Roisin Sheridan Bryson offers a love letter to the Edinburgh Fringe in the epic queer romance Lost Girls/Bus Stops; and the broken British immigration system is showcased in tense new drama Detained by Michelle Chantelle Hopewell, in association with Stellar Quines.
An alien invasion is the setting for a hilarious satire exploring the extremities of a post-truth world in Cassie and the Space Cowboy by Paul F. Matthews, who starred in many early PPP shows; James Peake offers up a spooky farce this Halloween with Ghost Off! about Hillhead’s premier psychic trying to prove the existence of the paranormal; a time-bending drama about grief and magic awaits in Blast Off, Starburst, by Catriona MacLeod; and Miracle on Deanston Drive is a heartwarming one-man show by Katharine Williams about a local Glaswegian cabbie who saves the day.
Closing the season is Jellyfishby Katy Nixon, a drama about a mum and son who go to Berlin and the winner of our prestigious David MacLennan Award, in honour of our late founder. It will be directed by our new Artistic Director Brian Logan, who starts with us very soon.
We are also celebrating this anniversary by publishing a collection of plays from our 20-year history this September and we’ll be hosting a special fundraising gala extravaganza at Òran Mór on Sunday 13 October with more details to be announced soon – save the date!
“It has been an absolute honour programming this special season of shows celebrating 20 years of this truly ground-breaking theatre company.
“In honour of David MacLennan, we are delighted to be supporting MND Scotland from this season onwards, to raise awareness of this extraordinary charity offering support to those living with Motor Neurone Disease and their loved ones.
“Whether you’ve been with us right from the start or have never been before, we welcome you to join us for a play, a pie and a pint and celebrate our 20th anniversary in style with us.”
From left to right: RJ Hunter, Jo Lennie, Katy Nixon
We are delighted to reveal the finalists of this year’s David MacLennan Award:
RJ Hunter – Elliot Lays An Egg
Jo Lennie – Stand By Your Man
Katy Nixon – Jellyfish
The three writers will join us for a day each of R&D on their plays with a professional director and a group of actors. From this, a final winner will be decided shortly after and will have their play professionally produced as part of our Autumn 2024 season.
It was a tremendously difficult process narrowing down the 20-play longlist, our team and readers were very impressed by the breadth of talent shown. Every writer will receive individual feedback by an external dramaturg to help them develop their writing further.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) is delighted to host the next Scottish Casting Workshop in Glasgow on Tuesday 9 July 2024.
Scottish Casting Workshop (SCW) is a free workshop run by actors for actors. The workshop is for prospective performers who would like to be considered for future PPP productions.
Members of our team will attend as well as freelance directors who are working with us over the coming season/s.
There will be three 2-hour sessions throughout the day (11.45am, 2.30pm and 5.30pm) with 10 spaces available per session.
***APPLICATIONS CLOSED***
What's On
We are seeking two full-time Designers to join our team at A Play, A Pie and A Pint and be part of Glasgow’s lunchtime theatre phenomenon.
With at least 30 brand new shows a year, this is an exciting opportunity to work at the UK’s biggest producer of new writing and enjoy a fast-paced and creative working environment.
The Designers will work collaboratively within the Design & Production team and with incoming creative teams to help realise the work of A Play, a Pie and a Pint, using a range of creative and practical skills to elevate the production values of our shows and ensure each production is of the highest quality for audiences.
This is a full-time fixed term contract for one year at 35 hours per week. Applicants must be able to start by Monday 5th August 2024 in time for our Autumn season.
Salary: £25,500 per annum.
Application deadline: Monday 24th June 2024, 11am
Interviews: Monday 1st July 2024
To find out more about the role and how to apply, download our job pack. This job is really malleable, so even if you don’t meet all the person specifications please think about applying! We also want to meet as much talent as possible, and would love to improve our database of set and costume designers.
If you would like to ask any questions about the post in advance of submitting your application, please email info@playpiepint.com with the subject-heading DESIGNER ROLE QUERY.
We are committed to an accessible recruitment process within the current capacity of the organisation, and we welcome alternative application formats as well as access documents. This is detailed further within the job pack, but please get in touch at info@playpiepint.com if you have questions about this.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Brian Logan as our new Artistic Director & CEO.
Originally from Scotland, Brian Logan is a writer and theatre-maker who has been the Artistic Director at Camden People’s Theatre in London since 2011. He has a strong legacy of supporting many early-career artists to make innovative contemporary theatre, including Nouveau Riche, Frankie Thompson and Haley McGee. He was also the co-director of the acclaimed touring theatre company Cartoon de Salvo and currently writes about theatre and comedy for The Guardian.
Brian will start at the end of July 2024, following the departure of Jemima Levick earlier this year. Laila Noble, our Associate Director, will be staying on to programme our special 20th anniversary Autumn season.
“I couldn’t be more excited to join the team at A Play, A Pie and A Pint. I am in awe of what’s been achieved there in the last twenty years, and it’s a privilege to be given the chance to help take its story forward.”
Brian Logan
What's On
Our shows in May at Oran Mor will be performing Tuesday to Sundays meaning you get a whole weekend to enjoy plays, pies and pints!
Sundays are ticketed the same as Saturdays and prices will remain the same for weekdays, including our cheap Wednesdays. Doors will open at 12pm (12.30pm on Tuesdays).
From Mon 3 June, the rest of our Spring 2024 season will resume performing Monday to Saturdays.
As part of the BBC Bring The Drama Festival, we are hosting a free panel discussion with our amazing production team at A Play, A Pie and A Pint who will talk about working backstage, the realities of working at the UK’s biggest producer of new writing, and how they got started in the industry.
Chaired by our Associate Director (Laila Noble), the panel will feature a discussion with our Production Coordinator (Sam Ramsay) Resident Designer (Gemma Patchett) and Technical Co-ordinator (Ross Nurney).
There will also be a Q&A for you to ask any of your questions!
The panel will take place on Wednesday 06 March, 2.15pm (1hr) in the basement space at Oran Mor, Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8QX.
