Leilani Taneus-Miller
Leilani Taneus-Miller is a Haitian-American writer based in Edinburgh. An Alexander Dixon Scholar at University of Glasgow’s creative writing programme, she writes in a variety of genres, integrating her academic and professional experience to create literature that elevates underrepresented communities. Her work has appeared in public campaigns, bookshops and anthologies. She is drawn to research […]
Tina West
Tina West is a theatre maker, writer and yogi based in Fife. Her practice includes vocal and sound production, ethnography and visual poetry. Current projects explore and investigate how absence informs presence where glimpses of past and present cultures, identities, and natural phenomena—embedded in sea scraps washed up on shorelines—can be woven together to reveal […]
Heather Marshall
Heather Marshall (she/her) is a queer, disabled artist, writer and facilitator. She often works under the company name Creative Electric where she creates theatre, live and visual art with and for people that may not traditionally engage in the arts due to social, physical and/or financial barriers. She participated in Cove Park’s Creative Residencies for […]
Robert Rae
Robert Rae is a theatre and film director and writer. He chooses to develop work through socially engaged practice that aligns with his own political and activist commitments. His expertise has taken him all over the world sharing and developing his methodology. His career spans over 30 years, beginning as Producer for 7:84 England and […]
Hannah Lavery
Hannah Lavery is a poet and playwright from Edinburgh. Her debut poetry collection Blood Salt Spring (Polygon) was nominated for a Saltire Prize in 2022, her second collection Unwritten Woman was published by Polygon in August 2024. Hannah is the former Makar (poet laureate) for the City of Edinburgh, co-host of feminist arts podcast QuineCast […]
Katie Fraser
Katie Fraser is a Scottish playwright. She collaborated with Framework Theatre to produce Play Pretend (Traverse, October 2023). She has worked with Strange Town to write plays for their youth theatre, Dungeons and Flagons (2022) and I Was Here (2023) as well as their Young Company, You Don’t Know This Yet (2024, Scottish Storytelling Centre). […]
The Flames
Tricky Hat Productions is a company that makes multi-art form theatre with and about people who live on the margins of our society. They work with people to find a creative and credible voice through participation in high quality, collaborative, cross-arts events alongside high calibre artists. They work in collaboration with agencies, artists and areas […]
Winter Writers Residency with Hannah Lavery
Lisette Auton
Lisette Auton is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, predominantly making work as a writer, performer and film and theatre maker. Her focus is on process, creative access and place: creating stories that reflect her northern, disabled and neurodivergent experiences. She is a children’s author published by Puffin: The Secret Of Haven Point (2022); The Stickleback Catchers […]
Eilidh Morton
Eilidh Morton is an emerging actor and performer based in Scotland. She has 14 years of dance training specialising in ballet and jazz, with experience in Acro, Tap, and Musical Theatre. Eilidh’s background in music and music theory includes flute, violin, piano, and voice and has 3 years of experience performing with her school choir. […]
Jennifer Porteous
Jennifer Porteous is an interdisciplinary theatre maker. She works with landscape, documentary and archival materials to create intimate stories grounded in people and place. Jennifer’s work has a particular interest in social history, folk traditions and the forgotten stories from marginalised voices. Her previous work includes The Secret Agent, The Alpha Project, The Turing Project, […]
Munya Redman-Bayasi
Munya Redman-Bayasi is the Senior Programmer at Capital Theatres, leading on the programming for two of Edinburgh’s iconic venues, the Festival Theatre and the King’s Theatre. She collaborates with producers across the UK to bring the biggest productions to Edinburgh, including the UK tours of Hamilton, War Horse, and Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Munya is […]