Persistent and Nasty
277 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★ - 2 ratingsPersistent and Nasty is a script-reading, debate and art as activism initiative for women and gender minorities in the stage and screen industries. We are committed to an intersectional approach and aim to use the space we’ve created to provide a platform for the spectrum of marginalised voices in our culture.
Through a series of script readings, live debates and a regular podcast series, we aim to amplify the unrepresented voices in theatre and film.
Our goal is to create a project that is safe and supportive, but that is also an act of protest. Persistent and Nasty is about changing the cultural narrative through the stories we tell.
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Episodes
Episode 25 - Erin McGee at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
August 17, 2019 12:39 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBErin McGee is a playwright, dramaturg and Company Administrator for Scotland's leading theatre company for work by and about women, Stellar Quines. Her recent play, Mooning, is part of the Traverse Theatre's Breakfast Plays series at the Edinburgh Fringe. At the heart of the Traverse is a past and present full of daring, forward-facing artists. This year’s Breakfast Plays give a glimpse of the now and new from four of the most exciting rising voices in Scottish theatre. You can catch Moonin...
Episode 23 - Victoria Linchong at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
August 17, 2019 12:24 - 44 minutes - 60.8 MBABOUT THE FULL MOON CABARET The Full Moon Cabaret is an immersive art party with vintage style on the full moon of every month. Mixing high art and low humour, the Full Moon Cabaret is a sexy and subversive evening hosted by Viva Lamore. Each show creatively explores a theme derived from the Native American name for the full moon that month. Full Moon Cabaret was founded by Victoria Linchong (aka Viva Lamore), an award-winning producer and director from New York City with very wide intere...
Episode 22 - The New Victorians at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
August 17, 2019 12:18 - 39 minutes - 55.3 MBABOUT THE SHOWS MARA MARA is an original, multidisciplinary piece, celebrating women through time by means of sound manipulation and electro-acoustic music, performed live by The New Victorians. An ensemble-driven piece starring an all-female Maltese company. From inventors and scientists, to artists and activists. From musicians and politicians, to writers, to fighters, to mothers. MARA is an audio-theatrical journey through time, highlighting the fact that every story is worth telling, an...
Episode 21 - Meghan Tyler at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
August 11, 2019 10:37 - 41 minutes - 57.9 MBStrap in, lads. This one is truly a cracker. Team Nasty sit down for an utterly class chat with playwright, actress and bringer of all round good craic, Meghan Tyler. We discuss her insanely brilliant new play Crocodile Fever, witchcraft, finding your coven, and the strength of female friendship. ABOUT THE SHOW Northern Ireland, 1989. Rebellious Fianna Devlin crashes back into the life of her pious sister Alannah. Together for the first time in years, they are back at each other's throats i...
Episode 20 - Molly Brenner at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
August 11, 2019 10:22 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBWhat a super chat Louise and Misha have with New York based comedian and actress, Molly Brenner. We talk about her latest show "I'm Coming" and her journey to finally having orgasm. Expect a pretty fascinating and funny chat about female sexual pleasure, consent and more. ABOUT THE SHOW Molly finally had an orgasm. What’s her secret? The answers may surprise you! I’m Coming chronicles comedian Molly Brenner’s long, harrowing and strangely expensive journey to the Big O. It is an honest, se...
Episode 19 - Jordan and Skinner at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
August 11, 2019 10:14 - 39 minutes - 54 MBLouise and Misha sat down to talk to the extremely cool and talented Caitlin Skinner and Mel Jordon about their latest show, "A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego". They are both very lovely people. Well, Caitlin is lovely. Mel is secretly awful, but it's so secret no one ever sees it! ABOUT THE SHOW The multi award-winning Jordan & Skinner present a riotous new solo show that cuts to the bone of gender politics. Andrea has been giving her lecture but it's not been going well – previous ...
Episode 18 - the Mary's and Girl Bully at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
August 05, 2019 10:30 - 40 minutes - 57.2 MBWe could have chatted with the Mary's for hours. Their show Girl Bully celebrates feminist bitches everywhere and explodes the patriarchy this Edinburgh Fringe, confronting the mixed messaging imposed on young girls and women. ABOUT THE SHOW New York City-based Rock Rising Inc. presents Girl Bully, a new play by comedic duo Mary Clohan and Mary McDonnell that explores and explodes our use of the word “bitch.” With appearances from their childhood selves, Ann Coulter, and various other bitc...
Episode 17 - ThickSkin & How Not To Drown at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
August 05, 2019 10:21 - 41 minutes - 55.8 MBWe chat with ThickSkin producer Steph Connell, Associate Producer Carla Marina Almeida, Lighting Designer Zoe Spurr and Composer & Sound Designer Alexandra Faye Braithwaite about their work on the incredible How Not To Drown. ABOUT THE SHOW A painful yet uplifting true story of a child asylum-seeker arriving in the UK. At 11 years old, Dritan is sent on the notoriously perilous journey across the Adriatic to a new life in Europe, only to continue his fight for survival in the British care ...
Episode 16 - Bobby and Amy at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
August 05, 2019 10:11 - 42 minutes - 59.1 MBAnother fabulous afternoon was spent chatting with team behind Bobby and Amy. Bobby and Amy is a new dark comedy about foot-and-mouth disease by Fringe First winning Emily Jenkins. ABOUT THE SHOW It's the late nineties, Take That, Tamagotchis, Dip Dabs, and Pog Swaps. When 13 year old Bobby and Amy meet, hundreds of cows dot across the fields and the sun always shines. But when the cows begin to burn, Bobby and Amy’s sleepy Cotswold town faces a catastrophe that will change their home forev...
Episode 15 - The Roaring Girls at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
August 05, 2019 10:00 - 40 minutes - 56.6 MBWe had an absolute ball chatting with Rachael Abbey, Jess Morley and Sarah Penney - the Roaring Girls and hilarious cast of Beach Body Ready. ABOUT BEACH BODY READY t's the season of cutting carbs, hitting it hard at the gym, and shaving everything from the chin down. Summer has rocked up and the media has us thinking about how our bodies aren't up to scratch and there are companies ready to capitalise on that. We've been shamed, dehumanised, and humiliated for how we look and we've had en...
Episode 14 - She Sells Sea Shells at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
August 05, 2019 09:44 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBTeam Nasty sit down with director Madeleine Skipsey and lead actress Antonia to talk about their work on a new play - She Sells Sea Shells - by Helen Eastman. ABOUT THE SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS 'It ain't a fossil. It's fossilised dung. But if he wants to pop it in a cabinet I don't want to spoil his day'. In 1811, the daughter of a Lyme Regis carpenter discovered the world's first Ichthyosaur. She was twelve. Before she was thirty, Mary Anning made discoveries that transformed our understanding...
Episode 13 - Jessica Ross, Kendell Shaffer and Aurora Henning (Drowning)
July 30, 2019 20:42 - 55 minutes - 82.9 MBLouise has a fantastic chat with some of the incredible women of brand new play, Drowning. She was in the stellar company of playwright Jessica Ross, producer Kendell Shaffer and actress Aurora Henning. Louise had an absolute blast with these talented, inspiring and powerhouse ladies. They chat all things feminism, pursuing your goals, the #WomenOfFringe initiative and murder! This is definitely a killer episode. Pun intended 😉 . . . About Drowning - What makes a killer? What makes the yearni...
Episode 13 - Drowning at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
July 30, 2019 20:42 - 55 minutes - 82.9 MBLouise has a fantastic chat with some of the incredible women of brand new play, Drowning. She was in the stellar company of playwright Jessica Ross, producer Kendell Shaffer and actress Aurora Henning. Louise had an absolute blast with these talented, inspiring and powerhouse ladies. They chat all things feminism, pursuing your goals, the #WomenOfFringe initiative and murder! This is definitely a killer episode. Pun intended 😉 . . . About Drowning - What makes a killer? What makes the yearni...
Episode 12 - Cat Hepburn at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
July 25, 2019 16:29 - 40 minutes - 58.1 MBIn the first of our series of 2019 Edinburgh Fringe podcasts, we talk to the brilliant Cat Hepburn. Cat is an award-winning script writer, spoken word artist and educator based in Glasgow. She holds an MA with distinction in TV Fiction Writing from Glasgow Caledonian University, and an MA Hons in Theatre and Slavonic Studies from the University of Glasgow. Her passions are working with marginalised voices, exploring feminist issues and using contemporary storytelling to empower, provoke and ...
Episode 12 - Cat Hepburn
July 25, 2019 16:29 - 40 minutes - 58.1 MBIn the first of our series of 2019 Edinburgh Fringe podcasts, we talk to the brilliant Cat Hepburn. Cat is an award-winning script writer, spoken word artist and educator based in Glasgow. She holds an MA with distinction in TV Fiction Writing from Glasgow Caledonian University, and an MA Hons in Theatre and Slavonic Studies from the University of Glasgow. Her passions are working with marginalised voices, exploring feminist issues and using contemporary storytelling to empower, provoke and ...
Episode 11 - Jemima Levick
May 31, 2019 09:50 - 41 minutes - 76.8 MBIn episode 11 all of our Nasty gals have a great conversation with Jemima Levick the Artistic Director Of Stellar Quines Theatre Company The conversation covers everything from Jemima’s beginnings as a director to changing the narrative our young people see on stage and screen with her current production of This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing to what the future holds for all of us. Jemima was previously Artistic Director and Associate Director at Dundee Rep Theatre for ...
Episode 10 - Sarah Rose Graber
May 13, 2019 15:03 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBIn episode 10 Louise chats to the more than a little bit impressive Sarah Rose Graber. Sarah-Rose is a performer, director, teaching artists and occasional unicorn with a fascinating resume. She's always off an exciting new creative adventure, so it was a lucky delight to catch her for a coffee and a blether. Originally from Miami, she moved to Chicago to study theatre at Northwestern University and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London which piqued her interest in the inte...
Episode 9 - Jennifer Bates
April 10, 2019 12:43 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MBIn today's episode Elaine sits down with Jennifer Bates. Artistic Director of the DH Ensemble. They chat about Jen's most recent work and what she has coming up. Covering everything from Breast milk to taking up your own space. Jen's daughter makes a few guest vocals throughout the podcast as well. Enjoy. Co-founder and Director of the DH Ensemble, Jennifer has directed each of the Ensemble's projects to date. Other theatre credits include companies such as The Tron Theatre, Glasgow, The Byr...
Episode 8 - Morna Young
March 27, 2019 10:10 - 59 minutes - 135 MBIn today's episode, Louise sits down with playwright, actress and musician Morna Young to talk about her upcoming project "Lost at Sea", a story inspired by the loss of her father when she was a child. Morna is a playwright, actress and musician from a wee fishing village in the North East of Scotland. She is recipient of the 2017 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship (hosted by Creative Learning, Aberdeen City Council), the 2018 'Tomorrow at Noon' award for female playwrights (Jermyn Street Theatre, ...
PnN Podcast Call Out
March 06, 2019 22:19 - 2 minutes - 3.68 MBWe are mixing it up. A CALL OUT to all the women in the Theatre, Film and Television industry in all roles. We want to hear your stories, tales, annoyances. On Periods, Motherhood and Menopause. We will take all the information and make a few episodes covering your thoughts. So please get in touch [email protected]. Persistent and Nasty is a script-reading, debate and art as activism initiative for the female-identified voice in stage and screen. Although the core principle behin...
Episode 7 - Rambling away
February 21, 2019 14:27 - 39 minutes - 57.1 MBWelcome to episode 7. Louise, Misha and Elaine sat down in January to go over all the wonderful ideas gathered at the event in December. From these thoughts the hope is to create a manifesto. The gals chat and discuss many of the hot topics in the industry at the moment. Persistent and Nasty is a script-reading, debate and art as activism initiative for the female-identified voice in stage and screen. Although the core principle behind Persistent and Nasty is about the female-identified v...
Episode 6 - Shilpa T Hyland
February 05, 2019 19:12 - 1 hour - 93.5 MBWelcome to Episode 6 comrades. Louise sits down with one of her all time favourite people, Shilpa T Hyland. A recent graduate with an MA in Classical and Contemporary Text at the Royal Conservatoire Scotland, Shilpa is a pioneer board member for Stellar Quines, and is co-founder of the company Modest Predicament. She has previously worked as a trainee director for the National Theatre of Scotland on 306: Day and NTS/The TEAM at Edinburgh International Festival on Anything that Gives off Light...
Episode 5 - Simone Pereira-Hind and Anna Dawson
January 22, 2019 21:34 - 52 minutes - 120 MBLouise sits down with Simone Pereira-Hind and Anna Dawson of Simone Pereira-Hind casting. Two of the nicest people in the business, it was an absolute pleasure to spend an hour with them. We talk about all things casting, gender parity in film and television, career journeys, auditioning and the progress being made in the industry in the wake of the #MeToo movement. And we spent a wee minute or two on a little telly show called #Outlander. In the discussion Simone mentions an excellent orga...
Episode 4 - Maureen Beattie
January 16, 2019 11:20 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBPARENTAL ADVISORY for this episode. In Episode 4 we welcome the amazing Maureen Beattie. Just before Christmas Misha and Elaine had the chance to chat to Maureen the President of Equity. Critically acclaimed actor, director and all round extraordinary human. We covered many topics and didn't managed to touch on half of what we wanted to chat about. So we will just have to have a part 2. We have added the link for the Madaus product that Maureen mentions in the podcast. Sit back and enjoy a...
Episode 3 - Girl Crush
October 31, 2018 14:01 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBIn this little mini-pod we welcome bright young thing Misha McCullagh to the coven. Misha is a talented actress and producer who has joined the Persistent and Nasty initiative as a much needed and appreciated co-producer. Louise, Elaine and Misha gathered for a cuppa and a blether. We chat about having many a #girlcrush and make a tonne of recommendations for all your telly and book needs during the winter hibernation period. Other issues covered are certain ripple effects of the #MeToo movem...
Episode 2 - Festival Beaver
September 23, 2018 15:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBEpisode Two of the Persistent and Nasty podcast was recorded at the Abattoir at Underbelly. Co-founder/producer Louise Oliver sits down with New York playwright Jean-Ann Douglass to talk about her new play, "The Providence of Neighbouring Bodies". Produced by Dutch Kills Theatre NYC, and presented by Underbelly at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Joining Louise and Jean-Ann are two of the cast - Lori Elizabeth Parquet and Dinah Berkeley - and Artistic Director of Dutch Kills Theatre, Alle...
Episode 1
April 16, 2018 10:23 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBThe inaugural Persistent and Nasty podcast. Our coven of four actresses from Scotland discuss equality, gender issues, representation and more in the performing arts. Featuring snippets from previous Persistent and Nasty live events with guest speakers. Persistent and Nasty is a script-reading/discussion/activism initiative for the female-identified voice in stage & screen. For more information, visit www.wearecivildisobedience.com/portfolio/persistent-nasty/ Facebook.com/persistentandnas...