In conversation with writer and director Jack MacGregor, this episode inspects how to build your creative practice and career sustainably as an emerging artist over 11 months of the year. What are key points in the calendar emerging practitioners should bookmark and how is wellbeing prioritised in times of rejection?

Jack MacGregor is a writer and director based in the Highlands. Longlisted for the JMK Award and Discover Artist with National Theatre of Scotland, Jack’s writing-directing credits include ‘Nightlands’ and ‘Everything Under the Sun’. He is one of ten SSP Fellowship writers and has previously been awarded a Fringe First and Scottish Arts Club Fringe prize for ‘Best Scottish Show’. Jack has previously participated in projects 2020 Stories; The View From Here and COP26 Performance Commissions with Scottish Youth Theatre.

This episode was recorded in May 2024 as part of our Dialogue programme.

In discussion with 6 emerging writers from the textLAB programme – Anna Whealing, Bo Hogan, Calum Philp, Dylan Russell, Lara Delmage and Lintong Zhang – episode 2 tackles the space between writing and performance: how can and should a piece of writing be responsive to current world concerns, how may text challenge the role of the performer and, contrarily, how may the audience have a direct impact on the writing and how it is performed?

This episode was recorded in September 2022, when the artists were on the textLAB programme on the lead up to their collective Rehearsed Reading. To find out more about the project and how their works developed, please visit: https://scottishyouththeatre.org/national-artistic-programme/2022/textlab/

You can also find short interviews with each of the artists over on our TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scottishyouththeatre

Joined by 5 young artists from the Trajectories programme – Bethan Murray, Iman Akhtar, Julia Hegele, Lily Carmen Smith and Michael Phillips – episode 1 probes the liminal space between emerging and professional practice: is this gap experience or CV dependent, how may it be affected by access and what is granted by the sector, and how may emerging artists, in turn, create their own opportunities?

This episode was recorded in June 2022, when the artists were on the Trajectories programme. To find out more about the project and view the work they presented at the end sharing in July, please visit: https://scottishyouththeatre.org/national-artistic-programme/trajectories/