Director’s Blog – Kate Gorman
As you can imagine the rehearsals and filming were an emotionally heavy time for everyone involved: creating any production is always hard work, but working on the theme of teen domestic abuse is a whole additional level of emotional load, especially with a significant number of domestic abuse survivors within the team.
Creating a space where we are able to do this work is hard.
It takes effort.
It takes planning.
And it takes the right attitude.
And do we always get this stuff right?
Of course not.
We are all human. We all make mistakes.
But hopefully with the right frameworks and attitudes fewer things go wrong. And, when they don’t go how we would have liked, they are attended to, not ignored.
And this is really important.
It’s how we make it feel ok to speak up about things.
It’s how we learn.
It’s how we make future safer, better, more creative spaces.
So, I am taking this moment to thank the A is for Amy team.
Thank you for planning.
Thank you for making the effort.
Thank you for showing up with your whole selves.
And thank you, above all, for your desire to make the A is for Amy environment the best we possibly could.
Zoe Murtagh, Katja Roberts, Lucy Marie Curry, Anna Robinson, Chloe Ribbens, Kaitlyn Maxfield, Maya Torres, Jonny Larman, Magnus Dennison, the Meerkat filming team, Sue Spencer and Lisa Charlotte Davis
Thanks to our funders who are making this project possible: Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Arts Council England, The North East Combined Authority, The Barbour Foundation and The National Lottery Community Fund.
