Magnetic North
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 4 years. The 5-day residency is part of Magnetic North’s Artist Development programme; a creative retreat for experienced artists […]
Ruth Little
Writer/dramaturg Ruth Little returns to Cove Park with maker-curators Amanda Thompson, Deirdre Nelson, Ben Wilde, Claire Cunningham, Karine Polwart and Janine Harrington, for a period of place-based research on the craft and practice of thresholding. Together Ruth and the maker-curators will develop the framework for a cross-arts international residency in 2020. The Shorelines residency will […]
Claricia Parinussa Kruithof, Emma Jayne Park
Building on a partnership which began last year, The Work Room and Cove Park are collaborating again in 2018 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 […]
Tricky Hat
Tricky Hat is a Glasgow-based theatre company who takes a multimedia approach to participatory and professional work. They make theatre with and about people who live on the margins of society, and work with them to find a creative and credible voice to create high quality, collaborative, cross-arts events. Tricky Hat launched The Flames in […]
Hammaad Chaudry
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s New Playwrights Awards provide an important professional development opportunity for five early career playwrights living in Scotland who have a genuine commitment to writing for the theatre. Awarded playwrights come to Cove Park for a week’s research and writing residency. Hammaad Chaudry’s work has been staged both in the UK and US, including at The Royal […]
Naomi Sheldon
Naomi Sheldon is an actress and emerging writer. Thanks to Paines Plough, Naomi is at Cove Park for the first time to develop a new piece of theatre. Naomi’s debut play Good Girl was in association with the Old Red Lion, London, and premiered there in July 2017. It then played Vault Festival and Trafalgar Studios. Good Girl received […]
Rosanna Irvine
Rosanna Irvine is an artist and choreographer working in performance, installation, digital media and writing – including written choreographic scores. Her work is presented in theatre, gallery and public spaces as well as on the page and online. Rosanna’s approach involves working with relational and material processes through specific qualities of attention and perception. This […]
The Work Room / Cove Park Residencies 2018
Catriona Lexy Campbell
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s New Playwrights Awards provide an important professional development opportunity for five early career playwrights living in Scotland who have a genuine commitment to writing for the theatre. Awarded playwrights come to Cove Park for a week’s research and writing residency. Catriona Lexy Campbell is from the Isle of Lewis but spent much of her life in […]
Maryam Hamidi
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s New Playwrights Awards provide an important professional development opportunity for five early career playwrights living in Scotland who have a genuine commitment to writing for the theatre. Those receiving awards come to Cove Park for research and writing residencies of one week each. Maryam is a multi-disciplinary writer, theatre maker and actor. She co-wrote the Amnesty […]
Victoria Beesley
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s New Playwrights Awards provide an important professional development opportunity for five early career playwrights living in Scotland who have a genuine commitment to writing for the theatre. Awarded playwrights come to Cove Park for a week’s research and writing residency. Victoria is a playwright, performer and Artistic Director of Terra Incognita. She has written My Friend Selma and Invisible […]
Andrew Thompson
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s New Playwrights Awards provide an important professional development opportunity for five early career playwrights living in Scotland who have a genuine commitment to writing for the theatre. Andrew Thompson trained and worked as an actor for ten years for companies including The National Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and ITV. He began writing short plays and […]