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 […]
Sara Shaarawi
Sara Shaarawi is a playwright, translator and performer from Cairo. Based now in Glasgow, her first play Niqabi Ninja was developed after a staged reading at Mayfesto 2014 at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, and after receiving funding from Creative Scotland to put on a work-in-progress showing at Platform, Easterhouse, Glasgow. She took part in Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s 2015 […]
Janice Parker
Janice Parker returns to Cove Park in November for a one week residency and to facilitate a Dance and Movement Workshop developed as part of our Hands-On Engagement programme. This workshop will take place on Wednesday 8 November 2017 and is for anyone over 50 and interested in dance. For further information, and to reserve […]
Dance & Movement Workshop with Janice Parker
Self-funded Residencies, December 2017 – February 2018
Eve Leigh
During the summer of 2017, Cove Park will work with The Royal Court Theatre, London, and host a number of playwrights connected to its internationally renowned programme. The third participating artist is Eve Leigh. Eve is a playwright, theatremaker, and dramaturg. She trained at the Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme and Studio Group and the National Theatre’s […]