HOCP at Home with Artist Ashanti Harris
Amy Conway
Amy is a playwright, theatre maker, and actor based in Glasgow. She trained at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her last show, Super Awesome World [dir. Rob Jones], which explores depression through video games and audience participation, won Summerhall’s Autopsy Award, and was nominated for the Scottish Arts Club Award […]
The Work Room/Cove Park Residencies 2020
Winter Subsidised Residencies
This winter we are again hosting artists from across the UK and overseas for residencies of 1-2 weeks. During the winter we charge a reduced rate for independently-funded residencies, allowing more artists to benefit from the facilities Cove Park provides. This year’s participating artists are: Agata Zalewska, Scenographer and Playwright Hazel Atkinson, Writer Jamie George, […]
Alan Gordon
Alan Gordon is an Edinburgh-based playwright, originally from Dumfries and Galloway, and has been writing for the stage since 2011. In 2013, Alan was mentored by Paddy Cunneen through the Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s Mentoring Programme and worked with the Traverse Theatre as one of the Traverse 50. Alan has written extensively for Edinburgh-based youth theatre, […]
Subsidised Independently-Funded Residencies – December 2019 to February 2020
Mariem Omari
Mariem is a writer and activist. She is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Bijli, Company in Residence at the National Theatre of Scotland. After spending almost two years thinking about, and compiling ideas, articles and personal accounts on the impact of Jinn and black magic on mental health, Mariem will use a Playwrights Studio self-directed writing residency […]
Katherine Mendelsohn
Image: Gustave Akakpo’s SKINS AND HOODS, trans. Katherine Mendelsohn [staged in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by Cie du Veilleur]. Actors: Moyo Akande and Ashley Smith Following on from our first Translation Week in October 2017, we continue our partnership with the National Centre for Writing to welcome 7 translators to take part in a one-week programme […]
Magnetic North – Space/Time
Magnetic North is an award-winning theatre company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 1999 by theatre and opera director Nicholas Bone. Magnetic North have brought their Space / Time residencies to Cove Park for the past 5 years. The 5-day residency is part of Magnetic North’s Artist Development programme: a creative retreat for experienced artists […]
Manos Charalabopoulos
The Ivan Juritz Prize was established in 2014 to celebrate the creative explosion of the modernist era and reward art that seeks to ‘make it new’. Postgraduate students throughout Europe, either from traditional academic disciplines or from creative courses, are invited to submit texts, films, musical compositions, virtual documentation of artwork, excerpts of moving image […]
Jane Dickson
Cove Park’s programme of Early Career Residencies supports UK-based artists in the process of establishing their careers, providing an opportunity for research and the development of new work at this crucial stage. We are pleased this year to offer four residencies to artists specialising in composition/music, crafts/design, literature and visual art. This year, the music/composition […]
Rosanna Irvine & Kian McEvoy
Building on a partnership which began in 2017, The Work Room and Cove Park are collaborating again in 2019 to bring opportunities for Work Room members to undertake residencies at Cove Park for themselves and collaborators from other disciplines. The residencies are intended to bring a new dimension to a creative practice or practices. This […]