Virtual Studio & Site Tour with Creative Entrepreneurs’ Club
Suzi Cunningham, Monika Smekot
Cove Park is delighted to partner once again with The Work Room (Glasgow) to offer a collaborative residency to one or two of their membership. In 2020 Suzi Cunningham and Monika Smekot were selected. You can read more about Monika’s work and her plans for her residency here, and Suzi’s here. .
Winter & Spring 2021 Independently-Funded Residencies
Caitlin Skinner
Caitlin Skinner is director with new writing theatre company Pearlfisher, Director of award-winning theatre company Jordan & Skinner and Associate Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre. She is former Artistic Director of acclaimed new writing pub theatre company Village Pub Theatre. Recent credits include Alone and Alone Part II by Janey Godley (National Theatre of Scotland) […]
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 […]