sentences:  In 2001 he set up the Caird Company with Holly Kendrick to encourage young playwrights and directors.The company produced a number of rehearsed play-reading festivals in fringe theatres and rehearsal spaces all around London, organised writing and directing workshops and seminars and produced Theatre Café, a festival of European Theatre at the Arcola Theatre, "The Arab-Israeli Cookbook", a verbatim play by Robin Soans at the Gate Theatre and the "Lemon Princess" by Rachel McGill for West Yorkshire Playhouse.Caird directed a production of the melodrama, Murder in the Red Barn for marionette puppets, as a fund-raiser to save the Tiller-Clowes Marionettes for the nation at the Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, starring Joanna Lumley, Gary Kemp, Bill Nighy and others.