Hey there. I’m Em. Here is a list of some of the things I got up to at Bedlam and beyond.
Librarian 2022-23, 23-24
Archivist 2023-24
Co-President 2024-25
Ondine (co set and stage manager), Theatre Paradok, March 2022, Teviot Underground.
I also work with a non-student amateur company, Strawmoddie Theatre . We do Terry Pratchett plays and other fun stuff.
Guards! Guards! (lighting designer & technician), June 2023, Cymera Festival
Hogfather (front of house), December 2023, Pleasance Theatre
Men At Arms (assistant production manager & technician), June 2024, Cymera Festival
Going Postal (technician), December 2024, Pleasance Theatre
Feet of Clay (assistant production manager & front of house), TBP June 2025, Cymera Festival.
I am one of the army of EUSA Ents crew, so if you need info on a EUSA venue I can provide.
I enjoy reading new writing! If you want anything read over for a general grammar edit, vibes check, or just ‘HELP!’, shoot me an email or a message and I’ll read your stuff :))
Friday 15 October - Sunday 17 October 2021
Bedlam’s back, with music!
Position: Set Assistant
Saturday 23 October 2021
Please purchase tickets in advance, they will be £1 more expensive on the door! Bedlam’s back, but it wasn’t an easy...
Position: Group 2 Child (Director / Co-Writer / Official Panicker)
Wednesday 10 November - Friday 12 November 2021
Bedlam Theatre is now the site of two terrible tragedies. Come join us and test your skills by solving puzzles, conun...
Position: Co-Stage Manager
Monday 14 March - Wednesday 16 March 2022
A new festival celebrating new theatre from our Community
Position: Co-Marketing Manager/Archivist
Thursday 06 October 2022
Ailsa Dixon weaves the personal, fantastical, and historical into a tapestry of tales that explores the mythologies a...
Position: Stage Manager
Monday 10 October 2022 - Thursday 30 March 2023
halfBaked is an EUTC series of shows with the single aim of just enjoying acting. We don’t do auditions we just take ...
Position: Person who came up with the name
Wednesday 30 November - Saturday 03 December 2022
With great panto comes great responsibility.
Position: Co-Director / Writer
Friday 16 December 2022
As the first great Nativity proposal reads: “Why don’t we do a school nativity in Bedlam” “Yes, why don’t we?” “No wa...
Position: Tinsel Inspector (Actor)
Monday 23 January - Saturday 28 January 2023
The annual celebration of Bedlam. Open all week midday to midnight
Position: Welfare Contact
Friday 17 February - Sunday 19 February 2023
Nottingham New Theatre visit and perform a show!
Position: Programming
Wednesday 01 March - Saturday 04 March 2023
Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I?
Position: Lighting Assistant / Set Assistant
Friday 10 March 2023
A silly play about baking. Tickets come with cake!
Position: Writer
Friday 24 March 2023
March 24th marks the final Candlewasters showcase of the year! We are ending everyone’s hard work this year with a no...
Position: Director
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Tuesday 28 March - Saturday 01 April 2023
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
Position: Actor (Gonzalo)
Wednesday 02 August - Sunday 27 August 2023
We are very excited to be opening the big red doors again for the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival! Our programme is no...
Position: Deputy Venue Manager
Wednesday 02 August - Sunday 13 August 2023
Step into the sound studio and witness the mysterious world of radio theatre in this comedy/thriller. Our story cent...
Position: Tech Manager
Monday 11 September - Sunday 17 September 2023
Find all information about workshops, socials, and shows taking place this Welcome Week (as well as throughout the ye...
Position: Archivist
Tuesday 17 October 2023 - Thursday 28 March 2024
halfBaked returns for its second year of goofiness, hijinks, low-stakes theatre, and fully baked goods!
Position: Assistant to Mx. Niven
Wednesday 25 October - Saturday 28 October 2023
‘He made a big speech about how he was going to kill the dragon, overthrow the usurpers and right all wrongs. Everyon...
Position: Director
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Thursday 02 November 2023
A halfBaked Halloween
Position: Actor (Renfield/Ivan/Ship Captain)
Thursday 02 November - Friday 03 November 2023
Slash is a stylised pressure cooker black comedy that draws upon the tropes of dark academia, murder mysteries, horro...
Position: Set Designer
Wednesday 29 November - Saturday 02 December 2023
In the beginning was the game, the game was with God, and the game *was* God.
Position: Welfare
Friday 26 January 2024
A halfBaked Improv
Position: Actor (Billy Whiggins)
Friday 09 February 2024
A halfBaked Valentine's
Position: Writer
Wednesday 20 March - Friday 22 March 2024
“My usual self is a very unusual self, Geoffrey Ingram, and don’t you forget it!” Manchester, 1958. The leaden Irwel...
Position: Producer / Set Assistant
Wednesday 27 March - Saturday 30 March 2024
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Brian De Gousch, and I warmly welcome you all to the world premiere of my live-actio...
Position: Set Designer
Tuesday 11 June 2024
A halfBaked production, in Nottingham!
Position: Stage Manager
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Thursday 26 September - Saturday 28 September 2024
Good evening, assistants. My name is Fileas Frogg. Thank you for joining me for this momentous retelling of my advent...
Position: Creative Director
Thursday 21 November 2024
’Twas the night before November 21st, and Ebeneezer Scrooge is not in a celebrating mood. He’s the most miserly, grum...
Position: Writer
Saturday 07 December - Sunday 08 December 2024
Celebrating Edinburgh's radical community
Position: Tech Manager
Wednesday 29 January - Sunday 02 February 2025
Bedfest 25
Position: Programmer
Saturday 01 February 2025
A new dark comedy about co-habitation and co-dependency.
Position: Stage Manager
Tuesday 25 February - Saturday 01 March 2025
“God it stinks this road. Staleness, rot, stink, sex, drink, blood. There’s always been something wrong down here. It...
Position: Foreman (Set Manager)
Thursday 27 March - Saturday 29 March 2025
The Spanish Society presents: Lorca’s “impossible” play.
Position: Stage Manager / Set Designer