Episode 12 - Cat Hepburn at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe

In the first of our series of 2019 Edinburgh Fringe podcasts, we talk to the brilliant Cat Hepburn. Cat is an award-winning script writer, spoken word artist and educator based in Glasgow. She holds an MA with distinction in TV Fiction Writing from Glasgow Caledonian University, and an MA Hons in Theatre and Slavonic Studies from the University of Glasgow. Her passions are working with marginalised voices, exploring feminist issues and using contemporary storytelling to empower, provoke and make people laugh. She is the co-host and producer of Creative Scotland funded spoken word events organisation Sonnet Youth. She has story-written for BBC’s River City and Lime Pictures’ Hollyoaks. Cat's debut poetry book #GIRLHOOD (Speculative Books) is available to buy now. #GIRLHOOD is Cat Hepburn's debut Edinburgh Fringe show and adaptation of her hit poetry book. Nostalgic, hilarious and heartbreaking, her performance deconstructs and satirises the milestones, conventions and pressures that girls and young women face. The show runs from 31-July to 25-Aug (ex 12 + 19) at 16:45 at the Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre (Attic). You can book tickets https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/cat-hepburn-girlhood You can follow Cat on... Twitter @CatHepburnWrite IG @cathepburnwrite W: https://cathepburn.wordpress.com/ Produced in associate with live-arts production house Civil Disobedience, Persistent and Nasty is a creative activism initiative for women and gender minorities in the stage and screen industries. We are committed to an intersectional approach the prioritises diversity and inclusion. Through a series of live events and a regular podcast series, we aim to amplify the unrepresented voices in theatre and film. Our goal is to create a project that is safe and supportive, but that is also an act of protest. Persistent and Nasty is about changing the cultural narrative through the stories we tell. "The exchange provided by P&N is electric, reminiscent of the consciousness raising gatherings of the second wave but with a focus on intersectionality that has been sorely missing from so much of the mainstream feminist movement" - The Fountain Review Twitter @PersistentNasty IG @persistentanddnasty W: https://wearecivildisobedience.com/portfolio/persistent-nasty/