Highlight Collective was founded in 2017 with a desire to tell hidden stories that are female led. Highlight are writer Nicola Schofield and producer Grace Ng Ralph who in turn hopes the collective is an open space for collaborators to join in on projects.
Nicola Schofield: Nicola is a writer for theatre and TV and has had work staged at theatres including Royal Exchange, The Lowry, Paines Plough Roundabout and King’s Head Theatre London. Nicola’s play MAYBE TOMORROW won WRITE a Bruntwood Prize in 2004 at the Royal Exchange Theatre where she was then on attachment. She was also a Literary Associate at Octagon Theatre Bolton. Nicola was ACE funding for her play LOUD WHISPERS in 2014. Her recent works include FLIGHT (Didsbury Arts Festival/Hope Mill Theatre), AFTER BIRTH (Royal Exchange Theatre), THE PRESENT (Octagon Theatre Bolton – tour) and THE STORM (M6 Theatre Company).
THE PRESENT toured to residential homes and community centres in December 2019. THE STORM – a play for younger audiences on climate change – was in collaboration with M6 Theatre Company. The play began a 12 week tour of schools in March 2020. The tour was postponed due to Coronavirus. Nicola also runs workshops and recently worked with Royal Exchange Theatre and Mind the Gap in Bradford as part of their Play Days programme.
She has also written for TV and was nominated for a Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for her work on BBC Doctors.
Contact: twitter @NicSchofie | email: nichattan@hotmail.com
Grace Ng: Grace is a highly skilled theatre producer from Singapore of Chinese heritage. With over twenty years of experience having worked in Singapore’s national arts centre Esplanade Theatres by the Bay and National Youth Centre/*SCAPE before moving to the UK in 2010. Since then, she worked in Dance Base Edinburgh, Audience Business, and Glasgow’s Cryptic Theatre delivering its sonic arts festival Sonica in an audience development and marketing capacity and has a record of accomplishment in artist development and multi-disciplinary programming and projects.
She is consistently excited by artists. As a leader, she has the emotional courage to be a relationship holder for artists: guiding them with creative provocations to realise what they want to make, and who they are, and to harness that energy. She has a tremendous ability to turn an artist’s idea into a real, living project and bring partners on board to widen who access the work. Her quiet determination to create space and demonstrate care for underrepresented groups has had an impact on both The Lowry’s artist development strategy where she is currently working as an Artist Development and Access Producer, and the work of the wider programming team as well as her producing peers in the city.
Contact: twitter @grace_ennui | email: grace.ralph.ng@gmail.com