We had yet to add slashes to our job titles. We were young actresses living somewhere in the suburbs of ‘the dream’. And we were feeling kind of outraged. Outraged by the cost of ‘acting for camera’ classes, outraged at the lack of great roles for women, outraged that we weren’t even being seen for the not-so-great roles for women, outraged that our projects were not being made! We were just reall
y really outraged, ok?! Which was silly, because at that point we had no projects. So. We decided to do something about it. Women Work Well Together
We started by doing acting for camera sessions. Wobbly, hand-held iphones were pointed at faces. At first, There were attempts at being ‘natural’. But what we saw instead was something boring. Safe. We didn’t see ourselves. Then we started to make bolder choices. To laugh at ourselves, to laugh at one another, to help one another, to celebrate one another. There’s a lie that women are told, almost from day one: That we’re bitchy or competitive. It was probably created to stall us from realising the truth and taking over the world. And that truth is:
Women Work Well Together. Creative Generators
After a few months, our creative crushes on one another were getting so bad that weekly camera practice club was simply not enough. Rapid expansion went (was?) underway. We began to meet twice a week, an additional session for comedy sketch writing. We produced bucket-loads of material and began to define what we stood for as group of creators – a group that needed an identity. Then in June 2016, Natalie came along some good and bad news. The good news was, she had written a script. The bad news was, that script was ‘Nutritiously Nicola!’…
It was a bit like the big bang. We had no money. We had jobs. We had no notable experience of producing. But we loved it too much. We had to make it. Like artistic atoms we collided, rubbed together a bit, generated some creative energy, merged into one of the (admittedly) lesser known, bigger, badder boys on the periodic table of producing. We got a ridiculously great team together, a group who believed in the project as much as we did. We worked really fu***ng hard. In August 2016 we went into production, by December 2016 we had our first ‘Nutritiously Nicola!’ screening, and we are currently developing the project as a web series. It’s a nutritionally balanced ball or energy, which just keeps rolling. Double Yay
We officially became ‘Double Yay Productions’ in January 2017, and that ball of energy rolled over from ‘Nutritiously Nicola!’ into a robust slate of fresh F-rated ideas. We are committed to producing as much F-Rated comedy as is humanly possible. Because, whilst we find it really fun, we also think it’s very important. It started as a protest, and it’s continuing as a sit-in and it’s going forward as a movement. Double Yay are here to stay.
