When I opened The MTA back in 2009, I consciously set out to run a vocational drama college where experiential training was the entire focus. There would be no tokenistic essays to secure a government funding stream for a qualification..
When Bristol Old Vic Theatre School announced it was stopping undergraduate courses because they weren't financially viable, people suddenly decided to pop their heads out of the sand for a brief moment of shock, horror, outrage, and/or concern. Yet this..
I've twice written about the Strictly Scandal - on each occasion I've tried to understand why the media narrative gets spun to condemn the victim/whistleblower, but even more perversely, spun to reframe the alleged perpetrator as the real victim. I've..
A few days ago I wrote a blog about the ongoing Strictly Scandal and noted that I thought that history would be kind to Amanda Abbington for calling out her experiences on the show. Yesterday evening she was on Channel..
It's been several months since news of a growing "scandal" on Strictly Come Dancing started being written about in the press. This is not a programme I watch other than when some friends have been on it - in which..
As soon as an organisation is reluctant to investigate something my immediate thought is that they're covering something up. That's not to say that they are. . . but having run a business I understand that reputation is everything. Therefore..
Seldom have I been so frustrated than I've been this weekend reading the media (legacy and social) coverage that Central has had over the fact that they've decided to scrap their audition fees. People lauding them as trailblazers, industry professionals..
Back in 2021 when The MTA first announced that it was closing (don't ask. . . it turned out to be a dress run for the following year) I said in our press release that we wouldn't be the last..
Recently my social media feeds were full of people remembering where they were and what they were doing on that fateful day in 2020 with the industry shut down. Months of uncertainty followed with so many freelancers stranded when the..
Another day, another article in The Stage about ongoing issues at a vocational training college, and another day of silence from our industry. Having campaigned for so long now for the vocational training industry in the UK to have an..