'Pictured above: Hazel's profile taken for 100 Women in Cycling '24
Playwright: Recent credits include Ideas Jukebox (Splore tour with IAP) Human Sacrifice, performed in the Cultura Inglesa festival in Brazil and Maya and the Whale, produced by IAP, which has toured SPLORE, Imaginate and National Theatre of Scotland as part of the TiSS programme. Hazel was a Playwright Studio Scotland mentee 2019-20 exploring how we tell stories about Climate Breakdown with her mentor Lewis Hetherington.
Performer: Hazel has been performing theatre for over 20 years and often performs work that she has created or helped devise but also loves an opportunity for straight acting.
Podcast host and producer: Hazel's podcast series include: People to People, CliMates, Small Small Rainbows, the Porty Podcast and Motherrunner podcast.
Workshop Leader: Hazel is an experienced workshop leader and enjoys leading workshops with both groups of adults and young people. Recent workshops she's created include What is the Artists Role in a Green Revolution? and Childcare, Climate Change and Cake!
Community Climate Action: Hazel was a driving force behind setting up Porty Community Energy Bike Library and Active Travel Hub. She also started the Porty Community Fridge which rescues food and distributes it to 100+ families each week. She created the Retrofit Rover travelling exhibition and the Travel Agents of Change Zine and exhibition which promotes low carbon holidays. She played a key role in persuading Edinburgh Council to ban high carbon advertising. She has also organised two Bikefests, the Sea Rising Festival and the Heat Fair with Porty Community Energy and she started a bike bus at her local school.
FST Mentorship programme: Hazel was previously a mentee on the Federation of Scottish Theatre’s mentorship programme.
CPD: Carbon Literacy Training with the Carbon Literacy Project and British Theatre Designers. Decolonising the Curriculum with Take One Action, Anti-racism training with the Anti-racist educator collective, Imaginate master class with Joris van Oosterwijk and Shanti Straub, Citz Open Access ‘Inclusive Access with People with Physical Disabilities’ training with Caroline Bowditch and Linda Payne, Edinburgh International Festival Arts Practitioners course 2011, Object Manipulation with Sue Buckmaster, Imaginate Winter Master class with David Harradine, Imaginate Winter Master class with Guy Dartnell, Table top and shadow puppetry RSAMD Summer school, Sensory theatre with Oily Cart Theatre company, La Baracca Artists conference 2010 (Italy,) London School of Puppetry (Rod Puppet Course).
Voice work: Hazel enjoys voice over work and has worked on a number of animations, adverts, apps and exhibitions. She has a studio set up at home.
Qualifications: Queen Margaret University College, BA (Acting) 2003-6, HNC (Acting) Telford College 2003
Other interests: When she's not working you will probably find Hazel running up a hill, cooking up a feast or playing with her kids.
Hazel has worked freelance with a number of different companies including:
Starcatchers, Catherine Wheels, Visible Fictions, National Theatre of Scotland, Lyceum Youth Theatre, Puppet Lab, Frozen Charlotte
Recent theatre credits:
Performer: Hazel has been performing theatre for over 20 years and often performs work that she has created or helped devise but also loves an opportunity for straight acting.
Podcast host and producer: Hazel's podcast series include: People to People, CliMates, Small Small Rainbows, the Porty Podcast and Motherrunner podcast.
Workshop Leader: Hazel is an experienced workshop leader and enjoys leading workshops with both groups of adults and young people. Recent workshops she's created include What is the Artists Role in a Green Revolution? and Childcare, Climate Change and Cake!
Community Climate Action: Hazel was a driving force behind setting up Porty Community Energy Bike Library and Active Travel Hub. She also started the Porty Community Fridge which rescues food and distributes it to 100+ families each week. She created the Retrofit Rover travelling exhibition and the Travel Agents of Change Zine and exhibition which promotes low carbon holidays. She played a key role in persuading Edinburgh Council to ban high carbon advertising. She has also organised two Bikefests, the Sea Rising Festival and the Heat Fair with Porty Community Energy and she started a bike bus at her local school.
FST Mentorship programme: Hazel was previously a mentee on the Federation of Scottish Theatre’s mentorship programme.
CPD: Carbon Literacy Training with the Carbon Literacy Project and British Theatre Designers. Decolonising the Curriculum with Take One Action, Anti-racism training with the Anti-racist educator collective, Imaginate master class with Joris van Oosterwijk and Shanti Straub, Citz Open Access ‘Inclusive Access with People with Physical Disabilities’ training with Caroline Bowditch and Linda Payne, Edinburgh International Festival Arts Practitioners course 2011, Object Manipulation with Sue Buckmaster, Imaginate Winter Master class with David Harradine, Imaginate Winter Master class with Guy Dartnell, Table top and shadow puppetry RSAMD Summer school, Sensory theatre with Oily Cart Theatre company, La Baracca Artists conference 2010 (Italy,) London School of Puppetry (Rod Puppet Course).
Voice work: Hazel enjoys voice over work and has worked on a number of animations, adverts, apps and exhibitions. She has a studio set up at home.
Qualifications: Queen Margaret University College, BA (Acting) 2003-6, HNC (Acting) Telford College 2003
Other interests: When she's not working you will probably find Hazel running up a hill, cooking up a feast or playing with her kids.
Hazel has worked freelance with a number of different companies including:
Starcatchers, Catherine Wheels, Visible Fictions, National Theatre of Scotland, Lyceum Youth Theatre, Puppet Lab, Frozen Charlotte
Recent theatre credits:
- Ideas Jukebox - 3 hander touring performance for 0-10 year olds, International Arts Projects and SPLORE
- Human Sacrifice - 12 character play, Playwright Studio Scotland and Cultura Inglesa
- Maya and the Whale - 2 hander touring show, very light and tourable by bike, TISS (NTS and Imaginate), IAP and SPLORE
- Hup- performance for 0-24 month olds with Starcatchers and the RSNO
- Too Many Cooks - created with Nik Paget-Tomlinson and Starcatchers
- To Bits - project development with support from Creative Scotland Professional Development and Imaginate
- We Have Won The Land - rural touring production with Rural Nations
- Blush - work in progress created in Brunei with Frozen Charlotte
- The Forgotten Forest - performance/ installation project at the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh with Starcatchers
- Round in Circles - studio performance, The Byre Theatre, Macrobert Theatre with Staractchers
- The Attic - studio performance, The Byre Theatre and on tour with Staractchers
- Shake ‘n’ Bake - solo tour of Fife nurseries with Starcatchers
- The Elf Experiment - interactive show based in Easterhouse with Starcatchers
- Sense - for Frozen Charlotte at the Imaginate Festival
