The Muckle Hens

Shona Donaldson

Shona was born in Malaysia and has always wanted to explore the world. She had explored a great deal of it by the time she was seventeen, having subsequently lived in Ecuador, Nigeria, Kenya, Indonesia, and the swampland jungle of Irian Jaya. During this time she listed her hobbies as ‘running around with no clothes on’ and ‘pinning boys against trees’ – although apparently never together.

She returned to Edinburgh for a little peace and quiet, but instead was immediately whisked off to New York to appear in the off-Broadway musical ‘Up To Your Oxters’. After a brief but joyful sojourn in the Big Apple explaining to a bewildered American Public what oxters were, she came back to Edinburgh to work as a radio presenter, before being tracked down by a bunch of maverick auteurs to produce a series of historical epics. This generally involved keeping Oliver Reed & Brian Blessed at bay, shooting three castles a day and coordinating the release of 450 extras into battle before breakfast. It wasn’t what was in the job description!

Undeterred by the slightly unusual working conditions, she continued to produce films for five years, and followed it up by moving on to producing both corporate films and commercials. She has done so for such illustrious names as the Scottish Executive, Standard Life, Glenmorangie, RBS, Silverburn, HBOS, IKEA and Northlink Ferries and in places as far flung and exotic as Las Vegas, Vienna, Helsinki and Dunbar.

Andrew Macintosh

Andrew spent his formative years wanting to be variously an airline pilot, a magician and a snooker professional – the latter mainly because it seemed to involve very little real work, and you didn’t even get dirty playing it. Having failed miserably at all of these professions (his high break being a world championship winning 27), he became an actor, which equally involved very little work.

Unfortunately for him, it really was very little work, so he moved behind the camera – writing and directing - which involved lots of work, but which he enjoyed much more. What’s more other people seemed to think he was quite good at it too. Some of the people that thought he was good at it, and have employed him (often more than once!) have included ITV, BBC Radio 4, The ATP (Men’s Tennis Tour), NHS Health Scotland, RBS, Rexam, BP, IKEA.

He has worked as a script editor on a number of film projects, and has been writing the world’s greatest novel for a number of years now, but has promised we can all get to see it soon. He first met Shona when they were at primary school together in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977, but didn’t like her because she was a girl and kept trying to kiss him*. He met her again in 1999 and they have been working together on and off ever since.

*During her ‘pinning boys to trees’ phase

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