Playwrights' Studio, Scotland

What We Do

We provide resources to help playwrights based in Scotland with their creative growth. You can find out more about our work below.

Opportunities

Opportunities, Projects & News
Creative Scotland: Open Fund for Individuals
Creative Scotland: Open Fund for Individuals

Deadline: Ongoing

The Open Fund for Individuals is one of Creative Scotland's key funding programmes, supporting the wide range of activity initiated by artists, writers, producers and other creative practitioners in Scotland. The overall budget for this fund in the financial year 2021/22 is £5 million.

Dewar Arts Awards
Dewar Arts Awards

Deadline: Ongoing

The Dewar Arts Award exists to fund exceptional artists in any discipline who do not have the financial means to achieve their full potential. To be considered for a Dewar Arts Award, an applicant must be under the age of 30 and live or work in Scotland.

Opportunities on London Playwrights Blog
Opportunities on London Playwrights Blog

Deadline: Ongoing

James V: Katherine by Rona Munro

Shō and the Demons of the Deep by Zoë Bullock

Sunset Song by Morna Young, after Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Looking for the One by Sylvia Dow

Maggie & Me by Damian Barr and James Ley

No Love Songs by Johnny McKnight & Laura Wilde

The Collie’s Shed by Shelley Middler

Roost by Laurie Motherwell

Resident Writer | Rehearsed Reading at Tron Theatre

Dear Billy by Gary McNair

Ivor by Jennifer Adam part of Rock, Paper Scissors

Dungeons, Dragons and the Quest for D*** by Laila Noble

Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed by Richard Baron and Ellie Zeegen

On Now

Who We Are

Playwrights' Studio, Scotland was established in 2004 to provide artistically independent career support to the playwrights of Scotland.

Our Current Projects

Opportunities, Projects & News
Coorie In
Coorie In

Funded by Creative Scotland’s Cultural Recovery Fund, Coorie In aims to support playwrights as they deal with the ongoing impact of the Covid pandemic, as well as the cost-of-living crisis.

Skills Share Lunches
Skills Share Lunches

Skills Share Lunches are sessions created by artists to share their knowledge and skills with playwrights.

Playwriting (MSc)
Playwriting (MSc)

The MSc Playwriting programme at the University of Edinburgh is led by award-winning playwright Nicola McCartney (Lifeboat, Heritage, Standing Wave) and focuses on the craft of writing for performance, as well as on how a script would play out in real space and time in front of an audience.

 

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