Doppler Returns!
Doppler is back! Catch him in Pitlochry on 11th and 12th September before he journeys onwards to Norway!
June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me at the CATS!
It was announced last week that June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me, our 2024 co-production with National Theatre of Scotland, has received a wonderful three nominations from the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland.
They are for Outstanding Performance, Best New Play (both for Charlene Boyd) and Best Design (Set & Costume by Shona Reppe, Lights by Elle Taylor).
We are absolutely delighted for Charlene, Shona and Elle but also for the entire team who made this production the glorious thing that it was.
We also want to say congratulations to all the other wonderful people and shows that have been nominated. You can read more about them, and the ceremony itself, here: https://criticsawards.theatrescotland.com
We’re looking for new Board members!
Would you like to join our Board as we head into and beyond our 30th year?
We are looking for dynamic individual(s) to join our established Board of Directors, who meet quarterly in Edinburgh.
Directors are expected to devote a small number of hours between meetings to board business. This is a voluntary position and board members receive no remuneration. We are a charity registered in Scotland, receiving Multi-Year Funding from Creative Scotland, and are members of the Federation of Scottish Theatre, the Independent Theatre Council, The Green Arts Initiative and Culture & Business Scotland.
We are keen to hear from a wide range of people and particularly encourage applicants who are from underrepresented groups. However you identify and whatever background you bring with you, we welcome you to apply for this role with Grid Iron.
We are particularly interested in people with some or all of the following attributes:
• an interest in the arts, particularly theatre
• a knowledge of the cultural scene in Scotland
• board experience in public, private or voluntary sector
• business and cultural connections
• financial expertise
• legal experience (particularly charity and/or employment law)
• Personal welfare / mental health expertise
How to apply:
Please contact us at [email protected] (Judith Doherty) supplying a short cover letter and CV. (We will also send you an Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form to complete).
Closing date for applications: 16th June 2025
Exciting times ahead!
We were delighted to recently retain support from Creative Scotland through a successful application to the Multi-Year Fund.
Since we got the good news we’ve been working hard, checking in with all the artists and partners we’ll be collaborating with and setting wheels in motion.
We’re looking forward, over the coming months, to sharing those plans with you, so watch this space!!
A statement from the staff and board of Grid Iron Theatre Company.
Grid Iron are dismayed by Creative Scotland’s decision to close the Open Fund for Individual Artists. This fund provides critical support to individual artists, who in turn offer employment for collaborators on their projects. It is an essential part of the arts ecology of Scotland.
As a very lean company, with a core staff of three, Grid Iron relies hugely on the work of individual freelance artist whose livelihoods will be significantly affected by this cut. The cut will disproportionately affect authors, playwrights, fine artists, composers and others for whom an individual artistic endeavour is essential to the creative process, before sharing it with others, be that other artists or the wider public.
To announce this cut in the middle of the world’s biggest arts festival, an event the envy of the world over which is already hugely subsidised by the work of individual artists and which demonstrates so well the societal and economic impact that Scotland’s cultural sector has, beggars belief.
We call on Creative Scotland and The Scottish Government to work together immediately in order to reverse this decision and call further on the Scottish Government to re-assure Creative Scotland that funds will be put in place to support this critical sector.
We urge everyone to click on and sign the Open Letter attached. This letter should not just be from people who work in the arts but from everyone who loves, participates in and partakes of art and culture in all its many and wonderful forms.
PLEASE SIGN BY 4.30PM MONDAY 26TH AUGUST.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nIT2F0eeSLLpdTOb-0UYMZtqL34gj4MjR4RZTVt7HIQ/edit
June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me
We are delighted to set free today the news of our new show, June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me, in co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland.
The production is the first play from actor Charlene Boyd who, through it, shares a very personal story of her own relationship with the music of country icon June Carter Cash and their common experiences as performers and working mothers.
Performed by Charlene, directed by Cora Bissett and designed by Shona Reppe, this is much more than a simple biography of June’s life and music, it is a shared tale of empowerment, endurance and perseverance.
This play with songs will premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before touring in Scotland to venues where, performed in cabaret style, we take inspiration from Nashville’s legendary Bluebird Café as Charlene gets to grip with a life less ordinary in a raw, honest and authentic piece of gig theatre.
For more information head on over to our Current page or to the National Theatre of Scotland website. We’ll also be sharing more information here about the show, the rest of the wonderful production team, and our Fringe and tour venues and dates as as we move closer to the production.
Photo credit: Jess Hardwick
It’s Edinburgh’s festival season again!
Although we don’t have a show at the Edinburgh festivals this year, we want to send all our love and best wishes to all the talented and brave souls making this city the most exciting and glorious place to be in August!
Recently returned from the Bethlehem Site-Specific Theatre Festival
Our Co-Artistic Director, Ben Harrison and Artistic Director Allie Butler, have recently returned from the Bethlehem Site-Specific Theatre Festival.
We’re looking for a new Board member
Would you be interested in coming on board to help guide Grid Iron as we head towards our fourth decade of making new, world-class site-specific theatre productions?
If you are new to our work, please take a little trip around our website to see what we’re all about but here is some brief information about us, what we’re ideally looking for from a new board member and how to apply:
Grid Iron is a new writing, theatre company specialising in site-specific and promenade productions; working across Scotland and also internationally for 28 years, garnering over 30 awards.
We are a charity registered in Scotland, receiving Regular Funding from Creative Scotland, and are members of the Federation of Scottish Theatre, the Independent Theatre Council, The Green Arts Initiative and Arts & Business Scotland.
We are looking for dynamic individual(s) to join our established Board of Directors, who meet quarterly in Edinburgh. Directors are expected to devote a small number of hours between meetings to board business. This is a voluntary position and board members receive no remuneration.
We are keen to hear from a wide range of people and particularly encourage applicants who are from underrepresented groups. However you identify and whatever background you bring with you, we welcome you to apply for this role with Grid Iron.
We are particularly interested in people with some or all of the following attributes:
- an interest in the arts, particularly theatre
- a knowledge of the cultural scene in Scotland
- digital life/social media engagement experience
- legal experience (particularly charity and/or employment law
- board experience in public, private or voluntary sector
- business and cultural connections
HOW TO APPLY:
Please contact us at [email protected] supplying a short cover letter and CV. (On receipt, we will send you an Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form to complete).
Closing date for applications: 4th December 2022
Please do think about coming to join us. There are responsibilities. There is also fun.
Photo credit: Jess Shurte. Muster Station: Leith. Grid Iron and Edinburgh International Festival.
Grid Iron at the 75th Edinburgh International Festival
Having kept it secret for quite a long time we are delighted to finally be able to announce that Edinburgh International Festival have commissioned us to create a brand new show for this year’s festival, their 75th.
The new show, Muster Station: Leith, will be performed in promenade around Leith Academy, marking the culmination of EIF’s four year residency within the school. We are also honoured to have been asked by the Festival’s Learning and Engagement team to be Artists in Residence during this final year, which will see us working with pupils in a number of different ways, not only creatively but also by providing professional training and paid work opportunities in Front of House and stage management/technical roles.
For more information about the show as well as dates, times and how to book, please visit our CURRENT page or go directly to www.eif.co.uk/events/muster-station-leith.
PLEASE NOTE: Tickets will go on sale to the public on 8th April 2022. As capacity is quite limited we advise booking early!