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AMY MACKELDEN
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Amy Mackelden is a writer based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She is co-editor of Feminist Trash TV Blog Clarissa Explains Fuck All, and co-founder of Northern Poetry Print Journal Butcher's Dog. Her blog, July 2061, was shortlisted in the Best Writing category at the Blog North Awards 2012 and she won a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North in 2011. Amy's new play, Retail, was selected for the Bridging the Gap scheme, and has included residencies at The Maltings Theatre, Theatre Royal Newcastle and The Customs House. The show is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, directed by Annie Rigby and Amy Golding, featuring live music and video installation by Andy Playford, and mentoring from Kate Fox. Her short play, #1 Crush, was selected from over 200 submissions to be performed as part of FUTURESPARK, a new writing event organised by How It Ended Productions at the UK Centre for Carnival Arts, Luton. Her audio play, Prospecting, featured at GIFT Festival 2013 as part of Encounter Productions' showcase, Wanderlust. She's recently recorded a story for the Memory Box app. Amy had an internship with National Flash Fiction Day 2013, working on their new anthology, 'Scraps'. She placed third in their annual micro-fiction competition, in 2012 and 2013, with 'Meredith' and 'X'. Her first show, 'The 8 Fatal Mistakes of Online Dating (and how to avoid them)', was a collaboration with musician Andy Playford. It was co-commissioned by Durham Book Festival 2012, and has had a series of North East previews. With banjoist Dan Walsh, Amy was Simon Armitage's support act at the launch of Durham Book Festival 2010. She's performed at 'First in Three' at Northern Stage, ARC, Durham Book Festival, Hexham Book Festival, Arts Centre Washington, Northern Elements Showcase, EAT! Festival, Tyneside Cinema's 75th Birthday Party, Trashed Organ and Oxjam Newcastle. Her work has appeared in The Journal, Versal, Social Alternatives, NANO Fiction, Fractured West and anthologies from Leaf Books and Cinnamon Press.
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#1 Crush 8 Fatal Mistakes of Online Dating (and How to Avoid Them), The Retail#1 Crush
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selected from over 200 submissions to be performed as part of FUTURESPARK, a new writing event organised by How It Ended Productions at the UK Centre for Carnival Arts, Luton
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Amy Mackelden's parents met on a blind date. Following several disastrous attempts of her own at dating in the real world, Amy signed up for online dating. She re-watched You've Got Mail, posted a lonely hearts' ad, bought a webcam, spoke to a hot Italian (and a skull) on chatroulette, and saw a lot of things she wished she hadn't. She even friended 68 people on Facebook with the same name as her ex-boyfriend and emailed internet pen pals she hadn't spoken to since she was 15. The 8 Fatal Mistakes of Online Dating (and how to avoid them) is an hour long journey through the world of internet dating, told as a series of microfictions, posing the questions: Do online relationships work? How different is meeting people online to meeting them in person? What are the biggest problems encountered by a serial online dater? Can you find the one' in a chat room? Musician Andy Playford will create an electronic soundscape for the show, live each night, as there's always room for unpredictably in love. And, apologies in advance, Amy has a confession to make. But so did almost everyone else she met.
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Amy Mackelden's first job was in a religious bookshop, selling guides on the dangers of Harry Potter and the evils of Bridget Jones. Since then she's worked in a pizzeria, a sandwich bar, a cinema, a department store and a cream tea café where the chef threatened her with a bread knife. Andy Playford used to work in a call centre selling timeshares, cold calling the phone book. This show is for anyone who's ever worked in customer service, and for anyone who's experienced customer service, awful or awesome. Using a live electronic soundtrack and an Internet connection, Retail asks what we're willing to sell, for how much and to whom?
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