Author Archives: Gillian Kirk

A lobbyist & strategic comms adviser for 25-ish years, I fled London to script-write in 2007. First film due out early 2020, I've had 10 plays produced professionally in the South West, London VAULTS Festival & on the fringe. A grad of Channel 4's 4Screenwriting & Screen Yorkshire's Triangle, I'm constantly learning how to do this better, thanks to the generous talents I work with, in their various guises. Next up - a residency with the astounding Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Getting Creative When You Doubt You Can

Inspired by an acquaintance who’d been made so miserable by her utter conviction she didn’t have a creative bone in her, I wanted to encourage some self-care in others, and to share what I wrote. You can hear me read it on Kristin’s podcast here…

PODCAST | The Second Chapter

In the autumn, the multi-hyphenate, multi-talented Kristin Duffy invited me onto her exciting podcast. Here’s the two of us, ahead of Skin In The Game heading to the New Wimbledon Theatre. Kristin produced the show and played the doomed heroine… listen in to find out more… http://www.thesecondchapterpodcast.com/podcast/episode/20866c13/shes-got-skin-in-the-game-gill-kirk

Can you ever lose when you put your own Skin In The Game?

But I genuinely believe the stars aligned when I plucked up the courage this March to ask Kristin Duffy at Slackline Productions if she could think of anyone who might be mad enough to joining me in this utter (and thrilling) madness.

Climate Catastrophe Satire Hits London Stage

News Release 1 Nov 2021 A climate catastrophe satire that was developed with audiences in Bath hits the London stage this month (November). The New Wimbledon Theatre, run by Ambassadors Theatre Group, opens Gill Kirk’s dark-green dystopian horror-comedy SKIN IN THE GAME on the very day that COP26 ends in Glasgow.  Chosen by New Wimbledon TheatreContinue reading “Climate Catastrophe Satire Hits London Stage”

Put your Skin In The Game

It’s been a while! SKIN IN THE GAME’S ON STAGE! YOU CAN BE A BACKER – and the rewards are genuinely great! Today we just launched our Crowdfunder with a Facebook Live – me, producer Kristin Duffy at Slackline Productions and director Sarah Gain. You can have 35 mins of our podcast-y wit here! YouContinue reading “Put your Skin In The Game”

Buzz In & Out

How DO prodigiously creative people do it? We all have the same hours in the day. We have the day job, the lovely people in our lives and then maybe stuff like making music and art and enjoying other people’s! Rather than wonder / despair and feel inadequate, the only way is to see myselfContinue reading “Buzz In & Out”

Make Work. Bring something into existence.

It turns out I am writing a novel. The first such attempt in maybe 13 years. I had forgotten – hiding in my scripts and what they demand of me – that this process plays a different instrument inside. I hear a different music. Another thing, quieter and much, much stronger, is happening. And IContinue reading “Make Work. Bring something into existence.”