Introduction: Co-Administrator (the other one)

Salve, amici!

It's the other co-administrator, Seb, here, introducing himself for the world to know.

I don't know why I just used the third person there.

My role, together with Rachel, is to get this festival up and running, from the conception of ideas (way back in September) to the week of the festival itself in January. We're in November now, so that gives us about two months. That's a scary thought. As Rachel has already said, we're the go-to people for any queries about the festival as a whole, especially show and workshop proposals. We're also here to look after the team and make sure that they have the support to do their jobs. Which might mean seeing me do a stint behind the box office or waiting tables in the cafe, but mostly will involve me sitting in a corner answering messages on my laptop.

If you want to know a little about me personally, so you could like, I don't know, not feel intimidated about chatting with me over the festival, here are some things that I am: a second-year Classics student at the University of Edinburgh, born and raised in London. I've been involved in some shows at Bedlam in the past year, but also managing to complete a degree involving two (two!) ancient languages without my brain exploding. I've also experimented with growing a beard, the result of which looked like this...

I'm also playing a woman on stage in the Edinburgh University Classics Society's upcoming production of Lysistrata - facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/287663294685109/?fref=ts - in which the beard may make another appearance.

Keep an eye out for more from me, as I'm sure I'll be on this blog like an actor is onstage. Get it?

Workshop proposals now being accepted

Want to run a workshop at BedFest 2013? Workshops can be up to 3 hours long, and cover an aspect of theatre. Money for materials can be provided, so you can go all out in creating an awesome workshop. Maybe run a costuming workshop in which participants can create their own costumes over 3 hours? Or building a set? Or physicality and movement? It's up to you.

Also being tested is a new workshop format: the 18-minute workshop. Can you convey an idea in 18 mins? If so, we want to hear from you.

Just fill in this handy form and we'll get back to you asap. The deadline for workshop proposals is Monday 12th November at 6pm.

SHOW PROPOSALS!!!!!

Hey everyone!

This is the official opening of show proposals! If you want to put on a show for BedFest, fill out the form embedded below. The deadline is Friday, 9 November, so please get those teams together! However, be assured that a full production team is not required to propose a show. Thanks!

If you need more information, here's a handy document outlining everything you need to do: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EzrCLnauySJHZ2Z1hA0fNuPfz6IPmo3ak4C_IOe8pUQ/edit

Introduction- Cafe

So after spending the summer in Bedlam behind the box office and most of the last year and a half hidden up in the tech box, I have now decided to experiment with Cafe. And by experiment with Cafe, I mean Clara and I had a really long rant over the summer about how Bedlam needs to serve things like smoothies. So there you go.
For an actual introduction, hi, I'm Kirstyn. I'm from TownInTheMiddleOfACornField#57, USA, and am a second year International Relations student. The plan for cafe for Bedfest is to make it, well, more cafe like. So we're working on serving food beyond nachos and toasties. Also, we have not had nearly enough tequila over the past festivals for my liking, so if all goes as planned and we get the alcohol license  lets just say there will be a lot of margaritas. I'm working more as an administrator  putting the menu together and taking care of the ordering and whatnot, and will have other cafe managers to take over the actual shifts during the week.
Now I get to experiment with all the recipes  Like cake pops. This is totally not an excuse to just bake all of winter break. It's definitely a very complicated process that requires tons of trial and error sessions.

Peace love and mini pizzas,
Kirstyn

Introductions - The other techie

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Hello all.

Continuing the theme of introductions, I'm the other semi-tame techie of the Crayden team. Craig has already introduced our role on the team, and be assured that there will be much geekery going on behind the scenes to ensure everything runs as smoothly as possible. As well as the new website, we are hoping to have ready a new "Digital Signage" system (nicknamed project moderate sleet) to show details about shows during BedFest.

While not at Bedlam (which hasn't been very often over the last few weeks), I can be found trying to fix the TARDIS, punching holes into card with the EURC or causing problems in the FreshAir studio (it's boring when it just works). Oh, and I'm meant to be doing CompSci with Electronics as well.

Anyway, feel free to drop me an e-mail, message me on Facebook (or even pm me at ball-hayden on irc.imaginarynet.org.uk for extra geek points) if you have any tech problems during your preparations for BedFest and I'll do what I can to help.

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Introductions - Theatre Manager

Hey I’m Clara Jane Mills, and along with the lovely Eleri, Theatre Manager for BedFest. It will be my job to make sure that all of the shows get-ins and get-outs run smoothly, things don’t break and everything that needs doing gets done. As well as making the theatre look pretty with the Box Office and Café teams.

When I’m not doing student theatre sometimes I am a Neuroscience and Physiology student. Right now though I am taking a year out of my degree and will go into third year next year. I come from Caithness, far far beyond the wall, in the frozen waste lands of the northern most highlands (like go any further and you will fall in the sea).  I’ve been horse riding since I was very little, and I have a lovely horse that I ride just outside the city, called Terry.

During the week leading up to and the week of BedFest you can expect to find me camped out in Bedlam with my duvet and coffee maker almost 24/7… Maybe it’s a good thing I don’t have classes :P

Paint covered stage management love

Clara Jane xx

Introduction: Co-Tech Manager

Evening everyone!

I'm Craig Snowden, half of the Tech Management team for this year's BedFest. Alongside Hayden, we'll be coordinating the technical aspects of the festival ensuring that all shows go without a hitch - technically that is!

Once Rachel and Seb work out who'll be entertaining us in January we'll be wanting to prepare a lighting rig for everyone to use. Obviously this means getting the technical aspects of your production sorted as soon as possible, and we'll be glad to help you out with that if necessary - just get in touch with either of us.

On a more personal level, I'm a first year (OMG A FRESHER) Computer Science student at the University. Unusually enough I'm actually Scottish, hailing from across the Forth in Fife. Currently my co-TM and I are working on a brand shiny new website for Bedlam, to be launched into the scary world before BedFest. When not at Bedlam, I'm either sleeping through 11am lectures or tucking into the "hot roll of the day" at BBL on the Pleasance.

On that delicious note, I bid you farewell and look forward to helping make BedFest a great success.