Liam Rudden boasts a wide and varied career in the arts and media. He is currently serving his sixth year as Arts and Entertainment Editor of the Edinburgh Evening News, where he edits The Guide and has a popular, and occasionally controversial, online blog, Fringed Out.

His theatre credits as an actor include principal roles in: Recall UNIT (Middleham Theatre Company), Loch Leven, The Last Days of Mary Queen of Scots and Edinburgh 1544 (Leith Rep. Theatre Company), Sequence of Events (Archangel Theatre), Dead Serious (Acolyte Productions, USA), and Pulse (Open Circle Ensemble Theater, Washington DC).

As director his credits include: Rocky Horror - the Remix (Claws Out Theatre Company), Hogmanay (Jagged Edge Theatre Company), Sequence of Events (Archangel Theatre) and, between 1993 and 2005, six productions of A Virgin's Guide to Rocky Horror.

On camera, Liam appeared in Restless Natives (Oxford Film Company). He presented and directed two documentaries, Under The Hammer and Reverse the Polarity, with the late Jon Pertwee (TVN). As a broadcaster his voice has been heard on BBC Radio Scotland, Leith FM, Forth2 and Real Radio.

A huge fan of traditional pantomime, Liam wrote and directed Dick McWhittington and Cinderella, the last two pantos produced by the Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh. He is currently working on this year's Brunton panto, Sleeping Beauty, and in pre-production for a tour of A Cock And Bull Story, by Richard Crowe and Richard Zajdlic, in 2009.

Read Fringed out at www.edinburghnews.com.