Persistent and Nasty

In today’s episode Elaine, Louise and Misha chat about International Women’s Day 2020.

We are pretty tired this week so not our usual energetic banter but stick with it for laughs and important words. Be a strong trans ally, support one another and keep fighting the good fight.

Please send your suggestions for the celebration of the womxn who inspire you, who you admire and who bring you joy.

They will be shared throughout the month of March for Women’s History Month.

All suggestions will be shared on all our social media platforms and you can DM or email us ([email protected]).

Have a great week and celebrate on Sunday the wonderful gift of being a womxn.

Big Love

We hope you all enjoy todays episode and remember to Stay Nasty.

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Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms.

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In today’s episode we chat with the amazing Scottish Screenwriter and Director Raisah Ahamed. During the episode we discuss everything from being a woman and a Muslim woman in film to giving up caffeine. It is a wonderful discussion and Raisah is a total inspiration. We have serious woman crush going on.

Raisah entered the industry through an apprenticeship scheme called Second Light, run by First Light and supported by Creative Scotland, Pinewood Studios and Barbara Broccoli. Her first short as a writer, ‘Last Order’, was commissioned through Second Light, her first short as writer/director, ‘Meet Me By The Water’, was commissioned by the Scottish Film Talent Network as part of New Talent Shorts 2015 and premiered in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016. The Feature Script for ‘Meet Me By The Water’ was developed through Screenwriting residencies with Playwrights Studio Scotland and Binger Labs Amsterdam in 2011, under mentorship of Olivia Stewart, it was shortlisted for the Sundance Writers Lab 2015. Her first film as a writer/director, Magda, premiered in competition at the Glasgow Short Film Festival 2015.

Raisah is alumni of the EIFF Talent Lab 2014 and a Creative Scotland Artists Bursary awardee for the development of her second feature script ‘Safar’, a female road trip film about two sisters that drive their elderly Gran from Scotland to Pakistan. Safar went on to be shortlisted for the Sundance Writers Lab 2018 and is currently in development with Producer Zorana Piggott and the Scottish Film Talent Network.

Her third feature script ‘Half-Moon Camp’, a WW1 film set in a German prisoner of war camp for Muslim prisoners, has been developed through the Adapt to Film scheme run by Broadway Cinema Nottingham, Skillset & The BFI and is currently in development with producer Zorana Piggott and Film4.

Recently she has gained her first Television directing credit with BBC 3’s ‘The Break’ and her first Television writing credit with the Cbeebies ‘Feeling Better’.

As well as her feature projects she is currently working on ‘Tightrope’, an art installation, that has been developed through the B3 Media Talent Lab. She is also developing a new short film as writer/director – Last Story – a dystopian tale of a dying world in a which a couple struggle with an unplanned pregnancy.

Raisah is interested in both strong character led films with interesting BAME female protagonists and stories that reveal hidden histories. Her dream is to one day write and direct the Lois Lane movie, with a woman of colour in the lead role.

What a bio! This is why we are girl crushing... Anyway, you can follow Raisah on twitter: @RaisahAhmed

And we hope you all enjoy todays episode and remember to Stay Nasty.

You can support Persistent & Nasty and receive exclusive members only content by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/persistentandnasty

Twitter: @PersistentNasty

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Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms.

On Twitter @weareohsocivil

On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience

And on Facebook at Facebook.com/wearecivildisobedience

In today’s episode Elaine chats to Scottish actress Katrina Bryan. We discuss Katrina’s career from leaving drama school, being truthful to your own voice, the women we admire and what happens when you are a freelancer and find yourself ill. Really important episode and one we all need to hear.

Katrina has worked on various stage and screen productions. She can currently be seen in Emmerdale (ITV) as Social Worker Eloise.

Other work includes Molly and Mack, Taggart, Nina and the Neurons to mention a few.

Twitter: @katrina_bryan

We hope you all enjoy todays episode and remember to Stay Nasty.

You can support Persistent & Nasty and receive exclusive members only content by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/persistentandnasty

Twitter: @PersistentNasty

Instagram: @PersistentandNasty

Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms.

On Twitter @weareohsocivil

On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience

And on Facebook at Facebook.com/wearecivildisobedience

It may be Valentine’s but we are celebrating Galentine’s Day on this week’s episode. To all of you amazing females/femmes/non-binary beauties out there. Love yourself and each other. Celebrate the beauty and power of close friendship.

It’s another episode with the three of us together so as always expect lots of laughter, bouncing around from topic to topic and of course Elaine’s obligatory swearing.

With love from your Nasty Gals

Elaine, Louise and Misha xxx

You can support Persistent & Nasty and receive exclusive members only content by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/persistentandnasty

Twitter: @PersistentNasty

Instagram: @PersistentandNasty

Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms.

On Twitter @weareohsocivil

On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience

And on Facebook at Facebook.com/wearecivildisobedience

In today’s episode Louise, Elaine and Misha are all together, having a good old laugh and rant about all thing’s awards ceremony. There are Oscar predictions, chats about what needs to change and quite a lot of swearing...

Elaine suggests something stronger than a cuppa for this episode. So, crack open your favourite tipple and listen to some nasty women.

You can support Persistent & Nasty and receive exclusive members only content by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/persistentandnasty

Twitter: @PersistentNasty

Instagram: @PersistentandNasty

Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms.

On Twitter @weareohsocivil

On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience

And on Facebook at Facebook.com/wearecivildisobedience

In today’s episode Elaine chats to the wonderful Scottish, BAFTA award winning actress Shauna MacDonald.

They discuss Shauna's introduction to drama and acting through youth theatre at PACE going on to drama school and then working in Film, Television and theatre. They talk the highs and lows of being a female in the industry and all that that entails. Lots of laughter, frustration and even some realisations.

A great woman giving amazing advice and it’s pretty safe to say that we at P&N have a super big crush on this gorgeous human.

Shauna is currently in rehearsals for the International tour of Kieran Hurley’s play Mouthpiece. It will be at the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and Tron Theatre Glasgow before it heads out into the international scene. Mouthpiece co-stars Angus Taylor and is directed by Orla O’Loughlin.

Get tickets at:

https://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event/mouthpiece-1

You can also catch Shauna on BBC Iplayer in the pilot episode of The Scotts a new Scottish comedy.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531933/

Twitter: @shaunamacd0nald

Instagram: @the_scottish_shauna_macdonald

We hope you all enjoy todays episode and remember to Stay Nasty.

You can support Persistent & Nasty and receive exclusive members only content by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/persistentandnasty

Twitter: @PersistentNasty

Instagram: @PersistentandNasty

Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms.

On Twitter @weareohsocivil

On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience

And on Facebook at Facebook.com/wearecivildisobedience

Elaine gives you a wee teaser for our upcoming episode.

Next batch of Persistent and Nasty chats incoming 1st February 2020.

Get it in the diary, see you there and stay nasty!

It's our 2019 final episode. Lots of laughs, fun and a few swear words.

Thank you for supporting us this year and we can't wait for 2020.

Wishing you all the very best of years.

With love from your Nasty Gals

Elaine, Louise and Misha xxx

We hope you all enjoy todays episode and remember to Stay Nasty.

You can support Persistent & Nasty and receive exclusive members only content by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/persistentandnasty

Twitter: @PersistentNasty

Instagram: @PersistentandNasty

Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms.

On Twitter @weareohsocivil

On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience

And on Facebook at Facebook.com/wearecivildisobedience

No full episode this week as it’s holiday time. However, we do have a wee heads up for you all.

We wish you all the loveliest of time over the festive holidays however you are spending it and whatever your traditions are enjoy! Be safe and have fun.

With love from your Nasty Gals

Elaine, Louise and Misha xxx

You can support Persistent and Nasty and receive exclusive members only content by subscribing to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/persistentandnasty

Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms.

On Twitter @weareohsocivil

On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience

And on Facebook at Facebook.com/wearecivildisobedience

In today’s episode Elaine chats to Scots actress Alexandra Laurence.

Alex trained at The Central School for speech and Drama in London. Gaining a degree in Musical Theatre.

In this episode we discuss body image and the pressures put on actors by the industry and themselves. We also talk about the mental health of our performers an what we can do to support and make changes to the way deal with mental health during training and beyond.

Alex also discusses her own eating disorder and who she is navigating her way through this.

In 2018 Alex co-founded the https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/beyourownbeachbody/ which involved art activism and events for people to take part in the celebration of all shapes and sizes.

Twitter: @alexandralaur

Instagram: @alexandra.laurence

You can support Persistent and Nasty and receive exclusive members only content by subscribing to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/persistentandnasty

Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms.

On Twitter @weareohsocivil

On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience

And on Facebook at Facebook.com/wearecivildisobedience