Panel: Producing Theatre

Interested in a career as a theatre producer? 

Want to know more about what a producer does, and how they can support your work?

Join us for a panel with Emma Ruse, Ellie Davies, and Laura Valerie Walker who will talk about their work as producers in Scotland, with attention to care, supporting emerging artists, and making work in the Highlands and beyond. 

Tickets are pay what you can, starting at £5. 

Emma Ruse (Framework Theatre / Emma Ruse Productions)

Emma Ruse is co-founder and Chief Executive of Framework Theatre

Company, Scotland's support organisation for emerging theatre-

makers. She is also a freelance producer and director, with her own production company Emma Ruse Productions. She has worked for organisations including Perth Theatre, Wonder Fools, Stellar Quines and the Traverse Theatre. 

Ellie Davies (Riff Raff Producing)

Riff Raff Producing CIC is a creative arts and wellbeing organisation run by Alison Burnley and Ellie Davies. Together we have decades of experience in arts and engagement both in the UK and Australia.

As well as offering producing services to independent artists and arts organisations, we create accessible opportunities to the arts for main caregivers and their families, believing that if we invest in main caregivers, it has ripple effects. 

From the intimate to the spectacular, we create spaces, performances and participatory experiences that celebrate and bring together families and communities in all their forms, with our head-turning, heart-warming, multi-artform projects.

Laura Valerie Walker (Vivid Roots Collective)

Laura is the CEO and producer of Vivid Roots Collective as well as a freelance producer. Through her company and freelance projects, she supports emerging artists, Highland theatre, and feminist work. She has worked as an assistant producer on the Findhorn Bay Festival 2024 and holds a Masters by Research which informs much of her practice. 

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