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Nicholas Bone is Artistic Director of Magnetic
North. Productions include Lost in
Music (co-creator with Kim Moore), Our
Fathers(co-writer and performer with Rob
Drummond), A Walk at the Edge of the
World (co-creator with Sans façon & Ian Cameron),
and Pass the Spoon (co-creator with David
Fennessy & David Shrigley). International projects include
a multi-year playwright exchange programme with Playmarket New
Zealand, an artist exchange programme with Maison Internationale
des arts de la Marionnette in Montreal, and a multi-artform
residency in Auckland. |
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Linda Crooks has over 25 years'
experience working with individual artists, creative teams,
producers and cultural organisations helping them achieve their
creative goals. She is passionate in her belief that we are greater
than the sum of our parts organisationally and sectorially, and for
the need to search beyond our immediate horizon to realise our full
potential. Her work has encompassed national arts organisations,
remote rural communities, and site specific productions on small,
medium and large scale. She has expertise in commissioning,
programming and producing new work within Scotland, UK and
internationally, touring, festival and event management, change
management and fundraising. |
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Annie
George is an Edinburgh-based writer, director and
occasional filmmaker. She was awarded the 2019 Scottish Book
Trust's Ignite Fellowship, and her recent plays
include Twa, Home is Not the Place,
and The Bridge (a Glasgow 2014
commission). She directed I Knew A Man Called
Livingstone, and Nzinga: Warrior Queen -
both by Mara Menzies. In short film she directed Real To Reel
Award-winner Curry and Irn-Bru, and was
actor/development producer of Daddy's Girl (Prix
Spécial De Jury, Cannes 2001). |
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Kieran Hurley is a writer, performer, and
theatre maker based in Glasgow whose work has been presented
throughout the UK and internationally. Theatre credits
include Mouthpiece (Traverse); Square
Go, co-written with Gary McNair (Francesca Moody
Productions); Heads Up (Show and Tell);
Rantin (National Theatre of
Scotland); Chalk Farm, co-written with AJ
Taudevin (Òran Mór, ThickSkin), Beats
(Arches). Beats was subsequently adapted into a
feature film which was released in the UK this year. |
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Rosie Kellagher is Dramaturg at National
Theatre of Scotland and has previously worked as Literary Associate
at the Traverse, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Live Theatre
in Newcastle. As a freelance dramaturg and director she has made
work for both theatre and radio with companies including the
Traverse, Soho Theatre, the BBC, Vanishing Point, Dance City, Live
Theatre, the Arcola and Riksteatern, Sweden and collaborated on
projects theatrical, aural and academic with writers from Iran,
Canada and across the EU. |
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Amy Saunders has worked
in the arts for the last 25 years, supporting and advocating for
artists across all genres and the industries that support them.
Currently Amy is the Arts Industry and Marketplace Manager at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe helping connect industry with artists and
each other. Prior to working with the Fringe she spent five years
as the international adviser for Creative New Zealand, NZ's
national arts funding agency, developing partnerships, exchanges
and opportunities for NZ artists to collaborate and present
internationally. And prior to this Amy worked for Festivals
Edinburgh working alongside Edinburgh's 12 pre-eminent festivals
year-round as the international project manager. It is through
building valuable and honest relationships, challenging the status
quo and maintaining the will to make positive change that drive Amy
forward on a daily basis. |
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Dr Stephen Sewell is well-known for his film
and theatre work, including his AFI Award winning script
of The Boys(1989) as well as plays such
as The Blind Giant is Dancing, It Just
Stopped and Myth, Propaganda and Disaster
in Nazi Germany, and Contemporary America - A
Drama in 30 Scenes. Sewell is one of the most celebrated and
experienced writers in Australia whose work has been performed
throughout the world, from London to Hanoi. He is currently Head of
Writing at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, in Sydney. |
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Sara Shaarawi is a
playwright from Cairo, now based in Glasgow. Her work has been
performed in the UK, South Africa, Uganda, Belgium and Germany. She
was project manager of the Arab Arts Focus showcase at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017. Her play Niqabi
Ninja is part of an anthology on new African writing by
women. She has also had work translated into German. Much of her
work as a writer and producer is about international collaboration,
cross-cultural production and multilingualism. |
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Hanna Slättne is a freelance dramaturg,
researcher and facilitator working across the UK, Ireland and
beyond for over 20 years. One of her areas of expertise is
cross art form collaboration projects and processes. She is
currently exploring dramaturgy and work flows in digital
performance and storytelling. Being based in Northern Ireland means
any cross-border projects are international collaborations and
partnerships. As a founding member of the Dramaturgs Network she is
leading on the networks international strategy for new work
practitioners. |
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Stef
Smith (Enough) is an multi award-winning writer
working for both stage and screen to international acclaim. Stef
has visited and worked in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany,
India, Korea, Mexico, Turkey and the USA. Her critically acclaimed
play Roadkill won numerous awards, including an
Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.
Stef's Traverse Theatre
Commission Swallow opened to widespread critical
acclaim, and won a Scotsman's Fringe First Award and the Scottish
Arts Club Theatre Award, as part of the Edinburgh
Festival. Swallow has been translated into
multiple languages. |
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