Hello dear listener, whoever you are and wherever you are welcome to episode number eight. I’m Lauren Wood and here on the pursuit pod I get to chat with artists abroad who like me, have travelled in the pursuit of their creative careers and today we have a different kind of story to share with you all. Not one that features a complete life change and relocation to another country for work as we’ve heard from a number of our previous guests but instead of an adventure, a pilgrimage or a creative experiment so to say that so many artists dream about pursuing and that is the process of touring a show to the Edinburgh Fringe festival.

Natalie Bochenskie is the Producer and artistic director of the act/react theatre company and is someone who has always been a huge supporter and mentor for me. In fact, she cast me in some of my first ever roles in theatre and is largely responsible for fuelling the fire for my personal career path. She herself has gone from strength to strength as a creative over the past decade and as well as telling us about her whirlwind experience of creating and touring her own work to the festival, she’s going to tell us her origin story of how her company came to be and, what I find incredibly inspiring how this hard working former journalist has managed to ditch her previous career to now be a full time creative.

Isn’t that the dream guys? And she’s done it all, from Brisbane in Australia.

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