Playwrights Database

Jennifer is a Scottish Playwright from Kinross and currently lives in Edinburgh.
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Davey works in theatre as a writer, director, dramaturg, musical director and workshop facilitator. He was an Associate Playwright with Playwrights’ Studio 2010-11.
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Peter was born in Glasgow in 1962. He began his career at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in May 1985 with White Rose.
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Phil is an emerging playwright based in on the Black isle in the Highlands.
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Director and playwright Grace spent most of her young life, from the age of 7, in Lerwick.
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Zoe is a Glasgow based playwright who graduated with honours in Drama and Performance from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh in 2013.
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Born in Edinburgh, and brought up between Australia & Scotland, Tim Barrow's first stage play Guy was produced at London’s Pleasance Theatre.
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Sadie was born in Cardiff and now lives in Edinburgh. As a playwright, her work includes short play Chronic Tonic, and she is currently developing a new play Crazy Shades.
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Victoria is a Playwright, Performer and Artistic Director of Terra Incognita.
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Colin is a founding member/writer of Village Pub Theatre, Edinburgh. His first full-length play was produced by Tinderbox Theatre Company (Belfast) as part of their True North Season.
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John Binnie is a playwright, director and community outreach worker based in Glasgow.
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Alan Bissett is a playwright, performer and novelist from Falkirk.
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Kate is a playwright and producer based in Glasgow. In 2012 she was a recipient of a New Playwright's Award from Playwrights' Studio Scotland.
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Selina graduated from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has worked extensively as an actor and writer.
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Lewis born and based playwright Kenny Boyle trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and holds a masters in classical and contemporary text.
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Martin Brocklebank is a professional scriptwriter who has written for EastEnders, Doctors and River City. He’s had plays produced by Paines Plough and Fiendish Plot.
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Jess has a BA in English Literature and Theatre Studies and trained as an actor at Identity School of Acting in London.
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Benn Brown is a Playwright born in Perth. His main interests lie somewhere in allegories and myth-building, morals, ethics and wondering what modern stories are to be made of.
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Ian is a Scottish playwright and poet. His extensive work has been produced by a wide range of companies throughout the UK and abroad.
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Joseph is a playwright and actor from Kilmarnock. He trained at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance.
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Following a career as Fiction Editor of a large publisher, Stewart began writing for theatre in the early 90s as a member of the Byre Writers.
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Stephen is a creative whose work crosses education, theatre and technology.
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Zoë is a playwright based in Glasgow, originally from Sheffield. She studied English at the University of Oxford before finishing a Masters at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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Gregory Burke is a Scottish playwright from Rosyth, Fife, Scotland.
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Mikey is an Edinburgh playwright who writes predominately in the east coast vernacular. His past work comprises of both drama and comedy.
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Sam Burns is a Cardiff-born playwright, now living in the Shetland Islands.
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Umar is a working class writer of colour, director, actor and a theatre maker, focused on socially engaged work.
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Vlad Butucea is a former mentored playwright. He developed his writing skills as a student of Media at Glasgow University.
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John Byrne was born in Paisley in 1940. He worked as a 'slab boy' at AFT Stoddard, the carpet manufacturers, before going to Glasgow School of Art.
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Leah is a young Indian-Irish playwright raised in South Wales, with a first-class BA English Literature (Bristol) and more recently an MSc Playwriting at the University of Edinburgh.
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Gowan Calder is an actress, director and writer based in Scotland. She began her writing career as a playwright but has recently been working on an interactive graphic novel.
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Stephen Callaghan is a prolific playwright and theatre-maker, based in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Daniel Cameron trained as an actor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, graduating in 2013. He was one of Playwrights' Studio, Scotland's Mentored Playwrights for 2017/18
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Catriona is from the Isle of Lewis but spent much of her life in Plockton, Lochalsh. She has worked as a theatre artist, actor and writer for many years, primarily in her native Gaelic.
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25 February 1940 - 8 March 2019. Donald Campbell grew up in Edinburgh and was a full-time writer since 1974. He was active as playwright, theatre historian, stage director, script writer and poet.
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Drew Campbell is a sometime poet, novelist and aspiring playwright.
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Apphia Campbell graduated from Florida International University with a BFA in theatre performance. Her work includes Black Is The Color Of My Voice and Woke.
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Debbie is a writer and actor based in Edinburgh.
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Alison is a playwright who has worked with theatres and companies including Paines Plough, Nabokov, Old Vic New Voices, New Writing North, Village Pub Theatre and 5065 Lift.
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Kevin is a writer, performer and musician predominantly based in the West of Scotland.
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Pamela is a playwright and dramaturg. Her plays include: Slope, Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Skåne and What we know.
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Max Chase is a Glasgow-based writer, director and editor.
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Hammaad Chaudry's work has been staged both in the U.K. and U.S. including The Royal Court Theatre in London
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Neil Chue Hong is a playwright from Edinburgh creating work that asks audiences to reconsider how they view themselves.
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Jacqueline is a Shetland based writer who often writes in the Shetland Dialect. She was awarded the McLellan Award for plays written in Scots in 2007 and 2009.
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Thomas Clark is a Glaswegian writer and performer now living in the Scottish Borders. He works mainly in the Scots language, and has written a number of pieces for the theatre and for film.
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Grae lives and works in Glasgow where he was born and brought up. He trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama before becoming a playwright.
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Jo has written over 70 performed scripts which encompass every dramatic form and her work has been performed all over the world.
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Rachel is a writer, theatre-maker and arts facilitator based in Scotland. She was founder and artistic director of Tramway's Theatre Arts Group
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Giles is currently under commission with Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Plays include: In Case of Emergency, Do Worry, Be Happy! Midnight Express, and Cabbages & Carrots.
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Jacqueline started her writing journey with the Tron Theatre writing workshops a few years ago. She entered a Channel 4 comedy writing competition, where she earned a place on the shortlist.
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Stewart Conn is an award winning poet and playwright. His writing has seen production across stage, screen and radio.
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Amy is a playwright, theatre maker, and actor based in Glasgow. She trained at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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Alice is a playwright, theatre maker, actor and clown originally from Sydney, Australia.
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Extensive credits across theatre, radio and television which include creating two series for Citv (Butterfingers, Uncle) Dad the latter winning Scottish BAFTA Best Children's TV.
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Isla is an award-winning playwright, director and performer, from Edinburgh.
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Brian is a playwright and scriptwriter originally from Scotland and now based in Bristol.
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Linda Cracknell writes in different forms (fiction, non-fiction, drama), with a frequent starting point in landscape, sense of place, and characters at odds or in tune with where they are.
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Mike Cullen is one of Scotland's leading writers for both stage and television.
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Paddy Cunneen is a theatre director, playwright and composer. In addition to being Artistic Director of ‘Tumult In The Clouds’, he is an associate director of Cheek by Jowl Theatre.
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Catherine Czerkawska is a Scottish based novelist and playwright.
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Hazel is an actor, theatre maker, mother, puppeteer and podcaster who lives in Edinburgh.
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Bob Davidson started writing in 2005 and has written twenty one act plays to date. All bar a couple have been performed by amateur clubs all over Scotland.
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Kate Davidson is an Edinburgh-based playwright and screenwriter, who grew up in St. Andrews but has also lived in Dublin, Paris and London.
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Michael has been a playwright and actor for over 36 years, working north and south of the border.
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Robert Dawson Scott was, for many years, an arts journalist and theatre critic, in which role he founded the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland or CATS in 2003.
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Christopher was born in Glasgow in 1967 and has been working as a playwright since the mid-1990s.
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MJ Deans is an actor and fluent Gàidhlig speaker from Glasgow.
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Rona Dhòmhnallach is a Gaelic playwrights, Arts Producer and Gaelic Tutor.
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Ann Marie Di Mambro has written several stage plays including Tally’s Blood, Brothers of Thunder and The Letterbox.
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Jack Dickson is an author and playwright based in Glasgow. He was awarded a Playwrights' Studio, Scotland New Playwrights Award in 2013.
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Des Dillon was born in Coatbridge and is an internationally acclaimed award winning writer and playwright.
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Selma is a director and playwright and Artistic Director of Newcastle based company Greyscale.
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Award-winning poet, author and playwright Chris Dolan was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
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After working in the arts as drama teacher, arts education officer, Head of Education for the Scottish Arts Council, and arts consultant, Sylvia Dow began a new career as a playwright.
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Educated at Glasgow University and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, award-winning writer/actor Anne Downie has written extensively for theatre, television and radio.
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Rob Drummond is a former Associate Playwright at Playwrights' Studio, Scotland. He is a playwright, performer and director.
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Clare is the Artistic Director of Civic Digits and co-director of Unlimited Theatre.
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Michael Duke is originally from Co. Down, Northern Ireland and currently based in Glasgow.
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Ross is from Glasgow. Initially training at RADA as an actor he has since worked extensively in film, television and theatre.
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Cecile Durel is a Glasgow-based playwright and screenwriter.
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Andy Edwards is a playwright and dramaturg based in Glasgow.
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Jack is the Artistic Director of Blazing Hyena. He has written three shows for the company. Jack was one of Playwrights' Studio, Scotland's mentored playwrights for 2017/18.
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Oliver Emanuel is an internationally award-winning playwright based in Scotland. He has written over 30 plays for both stage and radio.
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Stewart Ennis is a writer, actor, director, teacher, and occasional photographer and songwriter. As a performer he has worked with many of Scotland's best known theatre companies.
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Catrin is a Director and Playwright based in Glasgow, with a focus on creating new work within a collaborative environment.
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Fiona Evans is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced in the UK and abroad.
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Robert Alan Evans is a writer, director and devisor working across the UK. He has written extensively for young people including Kes, Caged, and The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk.
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Janette graduated from RSAMD in 1976 and has over the years performed with most Scottish Theatre companies.
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Cathy Forde is a Glaswegian award-winning novelist of fifteen books for children and young people until her first play, Empty, was commissioned in 2008.
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Jill is a playwright who lives in Edinburgh. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh MSc Playwriting in 2016, and was one of Playwright Studio Scotland’s mentored playwrights for 2017/18.
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Robert Softley Gale is an established figure in the Scottish arts scene, with over eighteen years of experience in diverse and varied roles – including disability rights activist, performer and writer
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Riccardo Galgani was born in Glasgow in 1969 and had his first play, Acts, produced by the Traverse Theatre in 1999. Other plays include Green Field (2002) and The Found Man (2005).
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Aodhan Gallagher is an emerging playwright born and raised in Glasgow.
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Joanne Gallagher is a playwright and actor from Linwood.
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Annie is an Edinburgh-based, Kerala-born, award-winning writer, theatre maker and occasional filmmaker.
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9 May 1939 - 30 June 2018. Lee Gershuny, originally from New York City, was founder/Artistic Director of the Edinburgh based, Elements World Theatre.
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Kevin P. Gilday is an award-winning writer and spoken word artist from Glasgow, Scotland.
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Sue Glover was born and brought up in Edinburgh, and has lived most of her life in East Fife.
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Alan Gordon is an Edinburgh based playwright. In 2011, he co-founded Twa Dugs Theatre Company with the aim to produce exciting new Scottish work.
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Stephen Greenhorn has been a dramatist for theatre, radio and television since 1989. His plays have been produced by a variety of theatre companies around the UK and the world.
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David Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969. Since his first main stage production ‘Europe,’ at The Traverse in 1996, his work has been produced extensively abroad.
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Catherine Grosvenor’s performed plays include The Tinderbox, Gabriel, and One Day All This Will Come To Nothing. She is passionate about encouraging people to write.
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George's first play was Roughneck (Traverse, 1984). Since then he has written over 50 plays for stage, community groups, schools and BBC radio.
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Over the past 15 years Tanika has written over 20 stage plays that have been produced in major theatres across the UK.
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Sue is an emerging playwright and actor based in Edinburgh. She is supported by the Playwrights' Studio Scotland Mentoring Programme 2016.
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Kris Haddow is a Scottish playwright and performer. He is a former mentee of the Playwrights' Studio, and was one of the Traverse Fifty in 2013.
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Rosanna is a Glasgow-based female playwright who has been writing for ten years.
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Ella Hällgren is an actor, theatre maker and playwright from the north of Sweden who is currently based in Edinburgh.
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Maryam is a multi-disciplinary writer, theatre maker & actor. Her stories grapple with ideas of motherhood, otherness, diasporic experience, and cultural inheritance in a multi-ethnic Scotland.
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Chris Hannan's work has been staged by the RSC, the Old Vic, the Bush, Shakespeare's Globe, the Traverse and the National Theatre of Scotland.
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Noren Haq has an MA in English Literature and a PGDE in secondary education.
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Zinnie’s plays include The Wheel. She was writer in Residence at the RSC from 2000 – 2001 and is currently an Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
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Playwright David Harrower was born in Edinburgh in 1966. His first play, Knives in Hens, was first produced at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1995.
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Lesley was a recipient of a Playwrights' Studio, Scotland New Playwright Award in 2011, as well as being an actor who has worked extensively in theatre, film, television and radio drama.
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John has had over eighty pieces of work produced in Scotland between 1980 and 2010.
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Iain Heggie was born in Glasgow. His plays include Wholly Healthy Glasgow, American Bagpipes, Sex Comedies, King Of Scotland, and Tobacco Merchants Lawyer.
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Dr Stuart Hepburn has been acting and writing plays and screenplays professionally for over 30 years.
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Lewis Hetherington is a Glasgow based Playwright and Theatre Maker whose work is rooted in collaboration and storytelling.
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Ella is a multi-award-winning playwright, who is the recipient of the 2013 Catherine Johnson Award.
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Anne was a mentored playwright for the Playwrights' Studio Mentoring Programme 2013-14. She has worked as an assistant to the director of the West End Festival.
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Jules Horne is from the Borders, and writes for stage and radio. She has won two Scotsman Fringe Firsts for her plays for Nutshell Theatre, 'Allotment' and 'Thread', directed by Kate Nelson.
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Robyn Hunt was a mentored playwright in 2005/06. She continues to write plays and prose.
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Jack Hunter is a playwright and actor who graduated from the BA (Hons) Drama & Performance Programme at Queen Margaret University in 2017.
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John Paul Hurley is an accomplished actor and screenwriter who in recent years has made a foray in to playwriting.
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Kieran Hurley is an award winning playwright and theatre maker living in Glasgow.
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Campbell Hutcheson is a journalist, writer and playwright.
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Among David Hutchison’s plays are The Blood is Strong (Finborough, London) and Too Long the Heart (Siege Perilous, Edinburgh).
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Ruth Ese Ighorae is an actress, playwright and facilitator.
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Emily Ingram is a Scottish-based theatre writer, director, performer, and props-maker.
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Molly has been an actress for over twenty years. In 2013 she started writing plays and became one of the Traverse 50.
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Originally from Belfast, David trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. His works includes Cyprus Avenue and Ulster American.
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Mamoru is an Edinburgh-based performance artist and theatre designer with a background in zoology.
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D. C. Jackson is a London-based writer, whose plays include My Romantic History, as well as The Wall, The Ducky and The Chooky Brae.
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Mark has written several plays in the verbatim genre. His first play, Blackout, debuted at The Arches in 2013, and was long listed for the Verity Bargate award.
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Jaimini graduated from the University of Westminster BA (Hons) Film, Television and Photographic Arts where she studied with Toni Grisoni ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’.
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Anita is an emerging playwright, published poet and fiction writer and also a creative writing tutor.
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As an actor Belle has toured nationally and internationally. She is was of Playwrights' Studio's mentored playwrights in 2015.
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Deb Jones is a Glasgow based Welsh born artist who is shifting from playwrighting to a more experimental practice, making work with verbal and non-verbal sound.
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Jackie Kay is a Scottish Writer from Edinburgh and is currently the National Poet for Scotland.
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Oisín Kearney is an award-winning Irish playwright, screenwriter and director
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Lisa is a Glasgow based writer who writes for the stage and screen.
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Nelly Kelly is a queer, trans non-binary playwright, dramaturg, performer and drag artist. They have a masters with distinction in Playwriting and Dramaturgy from the University of Glasgow.
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Grace is a Glasgow-based writer working across TV, theatre and audio drama.
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Jenny Knotts was the first recipient of the David MacLennan Award in 2013 and received a Playwrights Studio Scotland New Playwrights Award in 2014.
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Louise E. Knowles is an Edinburgh-based writer originally from Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Alison Lang writes prose fiction and drama in Gaelic and English
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Emily has a BA Hons in Media and Performance, a Masters in Acting and completed a screenwriting course at Screen Academy, Napier University.
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Hannah Lavery is a Scottish poet, playwright and performer.
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David Leddy is a writer and director based in Glasgow, where he is the artistic director of Fire Exit theatre company.
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Jo is an emerging playwright based in Glasgow. She was supported by the Playwrights' Studio Scotland Mentoring Programme 2017.
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James Ley is a playwright living in Edinburgh. He is a founding member for Village Pub Theatre (VPT) and studied Acting at the Royal Conservatiore of Scotland.
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Kenny is a playwright and director based on the Isle of Skye, where he was Writer in Residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in 2014-15.
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Christine Lindsay is a playwright and screenwriter born and brought up in a small rural mining village near Cobbinshaw.
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Bluey Little (she/they) is a queer poet and theatremaker from Glasgow by way of Leeds. She likes to make joyful searching work that finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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Jane Livingstone won a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award for Best Writer in 1996 for her screenplay Roses of Picardy before embarking on a career in corporate communications.
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Liz’s plays are performed around the world and she from 2011 - 2016 she was the Scottish National Poet.
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Suzanne is Artistic Director for Cutting Edge Theatre in Edinburgh.
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Passionate about curiosity as a kind of currency, Skye is a playwright who often performs her own work.
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Ian started writing in his final year at art college while studying animation in Dundee.
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An acclaimed author, bàrd and storyteller, Martin has been working across genres for a number of years.
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Marcas Mac an Tuairneir writes poetry, prose, drama and journalism, in Gaelic and English and splits his time between Inverness and his hometown of York.
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Simon was selected for the Royal Court/BBC Writersroom 50 scheme in 2006/7, The Traverse Emerging Writers project in 2007 and Channel 4’s Pilot Scheme in 2007/8.
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Rehanna trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
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Jack MacGregor is a writer and director of contemporary historical drama and science fiction in theatre. He is based in the Scottish Highlands, in the city of Inverness.
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Playwright, screenwriter and novelist based on the Isle of Lewis. Iain's original stage plays include The Pearlfisher
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Rugadh agus thogadh Calum L. MacLeòid ann an Inbhir Nis agus tha ceanglaichean làidir aige ri Barraigh, gu h-àraid ceann a tuath an eilein.
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Robbie Anndra MacLeòid is a writer and academic, who works in Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) and English.
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24 September 1929 - 1 April 2018. For over 40 years, Hector combined the life of a freelance dramatist with research into luthery.
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Kevin MacNeil is an award-winning writer from the Outer Hebrides, now resident in London.
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Mark is a Playwright, Director (stage/screen) and Novelist. He graduated with a Masters degree in writing for screen from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2012.
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Iain has worked for over 30 years as a professional actor in theatre, television and radio. He is also a recipient of the Gaelic New Playwright award.
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Originally and predominantly a writer, Ali's exploration of words in performance has encompassed a wide range of disciplines.
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Born in Edinburgh and based in London, Philippa Mannion is an award winning playwright, producer and performer.
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Kathleen is an all rounder which sometimes makes life hard and sometimes makes life easier.
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JC Marshall is a playwright based in Glasgow. She has written for many theatres both in the UK and internationally
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Euan is a writer with Right Lines Productions along with co-writer and director Dave Smith.
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Lorna is a new playwright based in Edinburgh. She is also an award-winning journalist.
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Mairead is from the Isle of Skye and a fluent Gaelic speaker. She was chosen for the Playwrights' Studio 2007 Mentoring Programme, which resulted in the play entitled Sapna.
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Rebecca Martin is a neurodiverse, Highland playwright based in Inverness.
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Xana Marwick is a stage and television writer based in Edinburgh.
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Douglas Maxwell is currently based in Glasgow. He is the author of Decky Does a Bronco, and his plays have been performed around the world.
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Isobel McArthur is a Glasgow-based actor, playwright and theatre-maker.
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Joe McCann is a black writer from Glasgow and is compelled to tell stories about the black working class experience.
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John is a two-time Scotsman Fringe First Award winning playwright as well as a performer and community theatre maker.
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Nicola McCartney is an award-winning writer and director, based in Scotland. A graduate of Glasgow University, her plays include Heritage, Lifeboat, and Easy.
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Martin is a playwright, actor, director and lecturer. He has worked extensively in theatre as an actor and also has several television credits.
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All I've ever wanted to be was a writer. As far as I can remember I've been working on a one project or another, be it a book,a play, a poem.
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JRH is an actor, writer and director. he is heavily involved with the Duns Players
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Ishbel is an award-winning theatre-maker, podcaster and columnist living in Glasgow.
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Rachael McGill was born in Shetland and is a translator into English from French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, specialising in drama.
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Natalie is a Playwright, Poet, Lyricist, Producer of arts and cultural heritage projects, Co-Director of Dreadnought South West.
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Andy is a theatre director, writer and composer. He trained at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
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Jen is a playwright, director, dramaturg and spoken word artist.
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L.J. McIntyre has had work performed, published and exhibited in arts venues, museums, festivals, anthologies, magazines and public spaces.
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John McKay is a Scottish writer and director in TV, film, and theatre.
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Plays include Becoming (2002), Gone (2005), Lie to Me (2006), Beneath You (2007), Flooded (2007)and Leave Taking (2013).
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Shona's passion for the arts has led her to work in professional and community theatre, on radio and television, in Barlinnie prison and on large scale outdoor passion play productions.
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Alan McKendrick is a writer, director and translator working across theatre, film and opera.
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Andrea is a writer, performer and director from Edinburgh. She studied acting and playwriting at Edinburgh’s Telford College and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Johnny is a writer, director, actor and performer as well as the joint artistic director of Random Accomplice Theatre Company.
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Linda is a playwright, screenwriter and fiction writer, based in Glasgow.
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Linda McLean is a multi-award winning playwright from Scotland, she was Chairwoman of the Playwrights’ Studio Scotland from 2007 - 2015.
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Gary McNair is a playwright and director based in Glasgow. He was a mentored playwright in 2011/12.
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Laura Miller is a playwright based in Aberdeen. In 2019 she was a recipient of a New Playwrights Award from Playwrights’ Studio Scotland.
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Lindsay was mentored by Isabel Wright as part of the Playwrights' Studio mentorship scheme 2011/12.
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Amy Rhianne Milton is a Playwright from Durham living in Edinburgh. She has an MSc in Playwriting from the University of Edinburgh.
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Awarding winning writer Seonag Monk has been writing for twenty years. She has written for long form television drama, animated film, stage, radio.
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Mairi is an actress, singer, writer and director based in Glasgow.
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Andy is a playwright based in Edinburgh and originally from Walsall.
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Laurie Motherwell is a playwright born and raised in Glasgow.
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Alan is interested in work that explores everyday magic, mental health, human connection and the incredible power of stories. His debut play premiered at A Play, A Pie and A Pint.
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Raman Mundair is a playwright and poet. She was born in India and moved to the UK at the age of five. Writer of 'The Algebra of Freedom' and 'Side Effects'.
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Ilona lives in Kinlochleven and has written over twenty plays. She has had several productions on the London Pub Theatre Network, on Highland tours and at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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Rona was born in Aberdeen and has written plays, television and radio. She was the Senior Playwriting Fellow for the Traverse Theatre.
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Lynsey has been mentored through Playwrights Studio Scotland by Anne Marie Di Mambro. and her play The Invincible Sum was included in the Bruntwood Prizes' Top 100 Plays of 2013.
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Tom Murray is a playwright, poet and fiction writer living in Dumfries. He lived and worked for many years in the Scottish Borders, moving to Dumfries in 2019.
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Uma Rebecca Nada-Rajah is a playwright and nurse based in Kirknewton, Scotland.
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Anthony Neilson is a writer and director from Edinburgh.
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Writer, actor and musician, Sandy began writing in 2006 after 15 years as an actor. He continues to act as well as write and was a stand up comic for a while.
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Angela began writing plays for young people while teaching in schools for children with social and emotional issues over the years more than 20 of her plays have been produced for schools.
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David Ian Neville is a playwright and director. He trained in theatre in Edinburgh and has worked as an actor, writer, director and drama facilitator.
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Eve is a Glaswegian playwright sharing smart, specific, contemporary stories with audiences through popular forms, led by a “girls to the front” working ethos.
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Lisa Nicoll is a producer, playwright and actress. She was mentored by Playwrights Studio Scotland in 2009 by Tanika Gupta.
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Katy is an Edinburgh based writer. Her plays Staright Outta Saughton, Then I Met You and Fingers explore gender and sexuality.
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Laila is a Queer identifying Director and Playwright from Wales, now based in Scotland.
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Jack Nurse and Robbie Gordon are co-founders of Wonder Fools, a theatre company that creates contemporary new work based on a diverse range of current and historical stories.
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Sean is a writer and journalist.
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Felix is a theatre practitioner and screenwriter based in Inverclyde. He has an MA with Distinction in Writing for Television from Glasgow Caledonian.
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Martin O'Connor is a performer, writer and theatre maker from Glasgow. His work includes poetry performances, playwriting, directing, education and participation projects.
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Ronan is based in Edinburgh and writes plays for the professional stage and community groups. He also writes short films.
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Conor O’Loughlin is a Glasgow-based playwright originally from Cork, Ireland.
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Mariem is a writer and activist who lived in conflict zones across the Middle East and North Africa for five years. During that time she worked with refugees and survivors of violence.
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Adura is an international performer and writer. She was one of Playwrights' Studio's mentored playwrights in 2015.
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Glasgow-based producer Michael John O’Neill. He is the inaugural recipient of the Bruntwood Prize Original New Voice Award for his first full length play, AKEDAH.
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Adrian is a writer and a director of plays, musicals and operas. He is based in Glasgow and is Artistic Director of theatre company SweetScar.
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Stuart Paterson is an award winning writer for stage, film, and television. He has written several plays for children, many of which have been performed around the world.
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Alexandria Patience is an interdisciplinary artist with formal theatre and arts training and extensive experience in creating theatre.
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Ian lives and works in Glasgow and writes for TV and theatre.
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Morna Pearson is an Edinburgh-based playwright originally from Elgin. Her recent play The Artist Man and the Mother Woman premiered at the Traverse Theatre in November 2012.
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Frances is a Glasgow-based playwright with fifteen years of experience working in theatres across the UK as a dramaturg and Literary Manager.
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Dr Lou Prendergast is a Glasgow-based writer, director, performer and theatre-maker.
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Patrick Prior is from Glasgow but is now based in London. Over the years his plays have been performed in many Scottish theatres.
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Tom is an international performer and maker, a facilitator of multidisciplinary improvisation and a writer for performance. He is based in Glasgow.
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Cormac Quinn is a Glasgow based writer, originally from Galway in Ireland, who has worked for television and theatre.
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Mhairi's work has been performed at the Tron Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Assembly Roxy, Dundee Rep, The CCA and Oran Mor.
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Lynda Radley is a playwright, dramaturg, and screenwriter who has been working as a writer and maker for over fifteen years.
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Anita Alexander Rae is an emerging playwright, and recipient of the David MacLennan Award.
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Jeremy Raison is the author of more than 30 plays including The Rain Gathering (National Theatre, Traverse, Radio 4), The Sound of My Voice (Citizens, Assembly), Blitz (Traverse)
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Anna Rattray is a Scottish-Thai playwright from Edinburgh. She is interested in writing about women, business and corruption.
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Omar Raza is a multi award-winning actor, playwright and “Funny Five Scot” comedian with a range of experience across theatre, TV and radio.
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Vivien Reid trained as an actor at the Drama Centre in London. Her debut play, The Waiting Room, is in development.
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Ellen Renton is a writer based in Edinburgh. She studied English Literature at the University of Glasgow and then a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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Ellen Ritchie is a Playwright from Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. She was on the 2019/20 MLitt Playwriting and Dramaturgy programme at the university of Glasgow.
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Isla Robertson is a playwright from Morvern in the west highlands of Scotland.
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Garry Robson is a disabled actor, writer, Director and occasional musician. Garry’s had his plays performed throughout the UK and Scotland.
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Michelle Rodley is a member of the Perthshire Plays Playwriting Group.
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Maggie Rose taught British Theatre Studies and Performance at Milan University (she now teaches the M.A. theatre studies programme).
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Mark Russell is a poet, drama teacher and playwright. His play Night Duty was first performed as part of the Glasgow West End Festival in 2006.
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Alistair Rutherford lives and works in Edinburgh. He has over 13 years’ script writing experience in film, radio, theatre, TV and interactive games.
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Corinne Salisbury is an emerging playwright. She was a recipient of a New Playwrights Award with Playwrights' Studio.
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Catriona is a playwright who spent her formative years abroad and currently resides in St Andrews.
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Sara Shaarawi is a theatre maker from Cairo who is currently based in Glasgow. She was one of Playwrights' Studio's Mentored Playwrights for 2015.
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Michael Shand is Edinburgh-based playwright who has been writing scripts for almost a decade and aspires to write (and occasionally produce) risky, cutting edge theatre.
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Rebecca Sharp is a writer and artist from Glasgow, currently based in Fife. Her work spans theatre, poetry and prose; interdisciplinary and collaborative projects.
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Gillian has been selected for the 2015 Mentoring Programme.
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Kolbrun is an Icelandic playwright living in Edinburgh.
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Sam Siggs is an Edinburgh-based Playwright. His first play was produced whilst he was still studying Drama and Theatre Arts at Queen Margaret University.
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Better known as Ganyamatope (ancestral family name) Towana Sithole's heritage inspires him to make connections with other people through creativity-based learning.
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Gabriella is a Glasgow-based playwright, who recently graduated from the University of Glasgow with an MLitt in Playwriting and Dramaturgy.
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Dave Smith is a playwright. He was born in Hamilton and is currently based in Tain, Highlands, and has worked in touring theatre since 1985.
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Stef works professionally as a writer, director and workshop leader. She is best known for writing the text for award winning show 'RoadKill'
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Ciara Elizabeth Smyth is an award-winning Irish playwright based in Edinburgh.
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Robert is a playwright from the Scottish Borders
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Wilma G Stark is a writer/translator for theatre.
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Gerda Stevenson is a writer of drama, poetry and prose. Her poetry and prose have been published widely in newspapers, literary magazines and anthologies throughout Britain and abroad.
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Diane is a playwright from Fife. She graduated from Queen Margaret University with a BA in Drama and Performance in 2014.
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Ellie is currently a member of the BBC Writersroom10 project, developing There is Mischief with the Traverse Theatre.
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JD Stewart is a gay, Scottish playwright, screenwriter, television writer and performer whose work has been performed across three continents.
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In 2015 May was the winner of the BBC PAF's £10k Legacy Award
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Based in the Scottish Borders, Sarahjane Swan and Roger Simian are multi-artform collaborators.
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Ben Tagoe is a playwright and screenwriter originally from Scotland but now based in West Yorkshire.
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Laura Tansley is an emerging writer based in Glasgow.
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AJ Taudevin’s recent plays include Chalk Farm, co-written with Kieran Hurley which toured internationally in a highly acclaimed production by ThickSkin.
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Martin J Taylor studied acting at The Drama Centre, London. His plays include Fringe First Award winning East Coast Chicken Supper.
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Drew Taylor-Wilson is an award-winning multi-hypenate theatre maker, trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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1969 - 2019 Stuart Thomas was an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and the Online Director for the School of Writing at San Francisco Academy of Art University.
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Andrew's work has been staged across the UK. He was awarded a Jerwood/Arvon Fellowship in 2014 and has developed work with Live Theatre, Newcastle.
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Sandy Thomson grew up on the North East Coast of Scotland and trained at RADA in London. She is a playwright and dramaturg.
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Heloise is a young playwright, writing both in French, her native language, and English. She is interested in tackling issues regarding bisexuality and transsexuality.
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Martin Travers has been part of the Playwrights Studio, Scotland's mentoring scheme and has been on writing attachment with the National Theatre of Scotland.
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Julie is an award winning playwright from Glasgow who was mentored with Playwrights​' ​Studio, Scotland in 2012 and is a member of the Scottish Society of Playwrights.
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Elspeth is an actor, writer, musician, and founder of Edinburgh-based theatre company, Stoirm Òg.
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Meghan Tyler is an award-winning writer from Newry, Northern Ireland, and one of the New Playwrights at the Lyric Theatre in 2018.
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Anita Trained at RCS in Glasgow and has a BA in Dramatic Art. She has worked extensively as an actor in Theatre, Radio and TV for nearly 20 years.
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Roxana Vilk is an award winning Iranian/ British film and theatre maker, writer and musician.
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Jenna Watt is an award winning director and playwright. She is the current recipient of Magnetic North's Artist's Attachment, funded by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Creative Scotland.
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Bea is a Glasgow based actress, theatre-maker and aspiring playwright. She graduated with BA Performance in British Sign Language and English from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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Jeremy began making drama projects in Edinburgh some 20 years ago, and has since become a leading exponent in the area of inclusive, person-centered and immersive theatre/film.
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Myette Godwyn studied Expressive Arts (fine art and theatre) BA (Hons) degree at Brighton Arts School before training as an actor with Cygnet Training Theatre Company in Exeter.
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Owen is an emerging playwright and is supported by Playwrights' Studio Scotland's Mentoring Programme 2017.
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Perthshire based writer Lesley Wilson is currently writer in residence at Rivendell Care Home, Birnam and an Associate Writer with Aiseirigh, SEALL Culture Collective in Skye and Lochalsh.
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Isabel Wright is a playwright and screenwriter based in Edinburgh.
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Morna Young is an Elgin born writer, actress, musician, singer and composer.
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Matthew has worked as an actor for many years, appearing in numerous plays, films, TV dramas and radio plays.
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