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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

Ben Ramsay

Ben Ramsay is a writer and director of film and theatre from Kirkcaldy, Fife. He adores genre-driven storytelling, and his work often revolves around darkly comic circumstances, commentary on contemporary life in Scotland, and works that explore pockets of history that are often overlooked. Recent works include: ‘A Concrete Topiary’, produced by the Almeida Theatre’s […]

Associates Awarded Residency

Through the Shortbread Tin

Written and performed by Martin O’Connor and directed by former resident Lu Kemp, Through the Shortbread Tin is a brand-new National Theatre of Scotland production, performed in Scots with Gaelic songs, which explores Scottish culture, myths, history and identity. Embarking on a Scottish tour, Through the Shortbread Tin will play Cove Burgh Hall on 25 April […]

National Theatre of Scotland Micro Residency
View of Loch Long through lush, green foliage and trees.

Michelle Burke

Michelle Burke is a folk singer, songwriter, and theatre-maker from East Cork, based in Scotland. She carries her homeland in her voice—unmistakable, unapologetic, a compass that always points toward home. Her hit show Step into My Parlour toured from Edinburgh to India through Spiegeltents, theatres, village halls and festivals. This summer, she’s premiering Mind How […]

Open Residency

Nigel Edwards

Nigel Edwards worked with Forced Entertainment for 29 years, Remote Control/Michael Laub for 17 years and with 7 People Show. He has worked as a lighting designer on Lanark (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow/Edinburgh International Festival) Cleansed, 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Court), Crave (Paines Plough), Robert Zucco, Victoria, The Tempest (RSC) as well as The Maid (ENO) and […]

Fuel Residency

Laura Hopkins

Laura Hopkins is a set and costume designer. She graduated in Interior Architecture and studied at the Motley Theatre Design course. Her work ranges from mainstream theatre, musicals and international opera to experimental performance and installation. She’s designed for the Old Vic, Royal Court, ICA, National Theatre, Royal Exchange, Barbican, Leeds Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, RSC, […]

Fuel Residency

Nick Powell

Nick Powell, composer, London musician and ex-member of Strangelove (EMI) has written scores for films, artworks and theatre throughout the world as well as releasing music under his own name and as OSKAR. Nick recently worked with Sam Mendes scoring The Lehman Trilogy (West End, Broadway and World Tour), The Ferryman (West End & Broadway) […]

Fuel Residency

Graham Eatough

Graham Eatough is a writer and theatre director. Recent projects include adapting and directing the cult Scottish novel, This is Memorial Device for The Lyceum Theatre and Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2022 which won a Fringe First, and the multi-disciplinary project, Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound, made on island of Mull during the Covid 19 […]

Fuel Residency

David Greig

David Greig is a writer and theatre director. His play Europe was performed at the Traverse Theatre in 1994. Since then, his plays, adaptions and musical scripts have been performed widely in the UK and around the world. His first play was produced in Glasgow in 1992 and he has written many plays since, produced […]

Fuel Residency

Katie Duncan

Katie is a writer and participatory arts facilitator. Her practice is rooted in the intersection of social justice and the arts. Her writing is concerned with integrating the personal with the political by exploring the social and cultural politics that underpin our everyday lives – and actively investigating the continual dilemmas and tensions that shape […]

Subsidised Winter Residency