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Megumi McKillop

Megumi McKillop currently holds the post as the Scenic Art Tutor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Prior to joining the Conservatoire, she held positions as Head Scenic Artist at both the Thousand Islands Playhouse (Gananoque, Ontario) and the Sudbury Theatre Centre (Sudbury, Ontario) and served as Assistant Scenic Artist at the Royal Manitoba Theatre […]

RCS Innovation Studio Staff Residency

Bill Wright

Bill trained as an actor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (then RSAMD) in 1990. After several years of professional work on stage, screen and radio, he began to teach and joined the Centre for Voice in Performance (CViP) at the Conservatoire in 2007. Further voice work with Nadine George of Voice Studio International, led […]

RCS Innovation Studio Staff Residency

Stasi Schaeffer

Stasi is a Theatre and Opera Director who works in the United Kingdom and the United States. Based in Glasgow, Scotland she works internationally on new works, musicals and opera (both new and in the repertoire). With her work she is interested in illuminating our world and understanding our place in it. Directing credits include: […]

RCS Innovation Studio Staff Residency

Laurie Motherwell

Laurie Motherwell is a Glaswegian playwright. In 2024 his play Roost was performed as part of A Play, Pie and a Pint. In April 2023 his play Sean and Daro Flake it ’Til They Make It premiered at the Traverse Theatre, before being performed again during the Edinburgh Fringe. In the same year Laurie was […]

RCS Innovation Studio Staff Residency

Lydia Green

Lydia Green is a Glasgow based writer, director and educator. She is currently studying for an MSc in Psychology with a focus on resilience training and how that can be incorporated into Performing Arts Training. As a director, her credits include: Into the Woods (Perth Theatre), Noisemaker’s The Snow Queen (RCS), Table Salt (The Alphabetti), […]

RCS Innovation Studio Staff Residency

Ninon Noiret

Ninon Noiret began dancing the same time she could walk, and pursued theatre from her teenage years before moving to Paris to train in a drama school. She was later accepted into the prestigious National Theatre of Bordeaux, where she studied acting for three years. Alongside her theatre training, she performed as a dancer with […]

Open Residency

Titana Muthui

Titana Muthui is an actor and writer who writes with urgency, clarity, and conviction. A Black woman and recovering alcoholic, she creates work that is inseparable from her lived experience. Storytelling has always been her way of surviving the world, but sobriety sharpened her understanding of just how much representation matters—not only for visibility, but […]

Autumn Writers Week

Ese Ighorae

Ese Ighorae is an actress, playwright, facilitator, keen to explore the world issues and write political theatre through humour that challenges our perceptions. Ese Ighorae studied BA Acting and Community theatre at East15 Acting school graduating in 2013. In 2016 she was Longlisted for the Charlie Hartil competition and awarded a Younger theatre grant by […]

Open Residency

Milly Sweeney

Milly Sweeney (she/her) is a performer, playwright and poet from Glasgow, Scotland. Having graduated from New College Lanarkshire in 2024, her acting credits include “Log Off, Loser” (Flower Punk Films,) “The Little Iceberg” (Anam Alba Creatives,) “Macbeth” (New College Lanarkshire,) and “The Caravel” (Cuttin’ Aboot Theatre Co.) Milly made her professional playwriting debut with “Water […]

Playwrights’ Studio Scotland Residency

Sarah Chew & Colum Findlay

Sarah Chew and Colum Findlay are music theatre collaborators, interrogating cultural fault lines in gender, disability, class and intergenerationality through performance. The issues they address are serious, and based in lived experience, but humour, whimsy and joy are integral to the making practice of their calls for social justice. Sarah is a theatre director, writer […]

Awarded Residency

Jack Hunter

Jack Hunter is an award-winning disabled, writer, actor and poet. Originally from Inverness, Jack graduated from Queen Margaret University’s BA Drama & Performance course in 2017. In 2021, Jack wrote One of Two as part of his time on the Playwrights’ Studio and Birds of Paradise Theatre Disabled Playwright Award. Winner of Summerhall’s Mary Dick […]

Awarded Residency

Bernardo Cubría & Michael John McCarthy

Bernardo Cubría is a Mexican writer. For film, he penned the feature screenplay ‘Copa’ that Eva Longoria is set to direct for SONY and Guerrero which Gina Rodriguez is attached to direct and star in with One Community. He is also currently writing the Untitled Juan Gabriel Biopic that Gaz Alazraki is set to direct […]

Awarded Residency