Last year, when Laila Noble joined the team as a resident director at Glasgow’s lunchtime theatre, A Play, A Pie And A Pint, on a Marilyn Imrie Fellowship, she was supposed to stay for three months. She clearly did something right because when her boss Jemima Levick announced her departure to take over the city’s Tron Theatre, they kept Noble on. And because of the gap before the arrival of incoming artistic director Brian Logan, it is Noble who has programmed the autumn season as associate director. It is, she says, her dream job.
“It’s been an amazing and unexpected treat,” says Noble, a graduate of Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University and a playwright as well as a director. “To get the interim position and to programme a season is wild. It feels like my natural home.” [READ MORE]