Lydia Green is a Glasgow based theatre-maker. She writes, directs and produces new work. She is also a lecturer at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is currently directing Into the Woods for Perth Theatre and Noisemaker’s Snow Queen for The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Junior Performance Department.

She has worked in South Korea with English Musicals Korea, writing and producing new musicals. She created Fearless Players with Shonagh Murray where she produced sold out, award nominated Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Fearless Players returned to Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019 with Armour and its sister show Burns: A Lost Legacy. Armour and Burns received a joint nomination for Best Musical by Musical Theatre Review, they earned a special commendation for writer Shonagh Murray’s outstanding scores.

As a director Lydia’s credits include: The Curve (Ayr Gaiety), Saturday’s Doon the J.M (Dundee Rep), 15 Buccleuch Place (RCS). As a writer her credits include: The Curve (Ayr Gaiety), Monday Men (Ayr Gaiety), The Great Elf Escape LIVE (Ayr Gaiety), Saturday’s Doon the J.M (Dundee Rep), Treasure Island and Fun Fest (English Musicals Korea). When she’s not making theatre she is creating stained glass art. This residency at cove park is the first time the two disciplines will interact.

Filip Holacky is a Czech musician and theatre-maker based in Edinburgh. He studied music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Brno Conservatoire and currently focuses on Creative Writing – Scriptwriting at the Open University. Filip’s compositions and theatre writing have been performed across Europe, America, and Asia; among others, he has earned the title of the winner at the Oberton International Composition Competition and C4’s Composition Competition in New York, and the Edinburgh Studio Opera Award for the Best New Opera. As a conductor and orchestrator, Filip frequently champions new musical theatre scores and he created the series of orchestral concerts at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he conducted his own orchestrations of works by Nikko Benson, Sarah Taylor Ellis, Steve Marzullo, Ben Toth, Todd Almond, and others. Filip is a lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

At Cove Park, they will spend time working with stained glass making and experimenting with sound design. Lydia will teach Filip how to make stained glass and together will experiment with sampling sounds and embedding them into the composition of a new musical.

Filip Holacky performing an excerpt from Cracked at Capital Theatre’s Open Studio Musical Theatre Scratch Night 2023. (photography, Mihaela Bodlovic and Capital Theatres)