Mamoru Iriguchi
Mamoru Iriguchi returns to Cove Park for a writing residency through Playwrights’ Studio’s Play Development Bursary programme. In 2022, Mamoru participated in Cove Park’s Play Park Residency Programme as an interdisciplinary practice facilitator. He was also a resident in 2016 for the annual Space/Time Retreat facilitated by Magnetic North. Mamoru is a performance maker with […]
Uma Nada-Rajah
Uma Nada-Rajah is a playwright and nurse based in Kilbarchan, Scotland. She was a member of the Young Writers’ Program at the Traverse Theatre and a recipient of a New Playwrights’ Award from Playwrights’ Studio Scotland. Uma was one the BBC’s Scottish Voices 2020, and was also recently the Starter Female Political Comedy Writer-in-Residence at […]
Ellie Griffiths
Ellie Griffiths is Artistic Director and Co-CEO of Oily Cart, a sensory theatre company that make accessible immersive shows, films and installations for and with children of all ages. Previous Oily Cart shows have taken place in hydrotherapy pools, on trampolines, and even with the audience floating up in the air! As an independent artist […]
Laila Noble
Laila Noble is a Queer identifying Director, Producer and Playwright from Wales, based in Scotland. She is the inaugural winner of the St. Andrews Playwriting Award and the premier of this play will be in early 2023. Laila is also a winner of the Scottish Arts’ Club Bright Spark Award, runner up for Theatre Uncut’s […]
Julia Samuels
Julia is a Liverpool-based theatre and film-maker. Her work is accessible, playful, political and thoughtful. She tells female-focused, under-represented stories, often exploring questions where mainstream debate and discourse lacks nuance. From 2006-21, she was Co-Artistic Director of 20 Stories High, where she made a range of award-winning work through collaboration between artists and young people. […]
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 […]
Mohamed-Zain Dada
Mohamed-Zain Dada is a playwright, researcher and cultural producer. Mohamed-Zain’s directing credits include 2019 Outspoken Prize winning short visual poem, ‘The Moon is a Meme’, and 2020 Outspoken Prize-nominated animation short, ‘Otherstani.’ Mohamed-Zain is a Winston Churchill Fellow after publishing his research on ‘The Future of Community Arts.’ His first theatre credit, ‘Emily (GLITCHED) in Paris’ […]
Amanda Verlaque
Amanda Verlaqueis a writer for stage, screen and VR. The MAC, Belfast produced her critically acclaimed debut play Distortion, and her radio play Lolly, which featured in their On the Street Where We Live audio series (which she also executive produced). She’s just made her debut as a director for VR with her short film Egg, produced by RETìníZE. Amanda’s career in […]
Dylan Bonnar
Dylan Bonnar is a Writer, Performer, Composer and Lyricist based in the West Coast of Scotland. His training includes an HND in Music and a Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Performing Arts. Dylan has performed in many different shows ranging from musicals like Rock of Ages and Rent to pantomimes and short films. His most recent professional credits are Elves […]
Rona Dhòmhnallach/MacDonald
Raised on the family croft on the island of South Uist, Rona is part of the lost generation of Gaelic speakers, where many were discouraged from connecting with Gaelic language and culture at school, in a time before the Gaelic-Medium revival had begun. From a family of renowned Gaelic singers, storytellers and pipers she tries […]
Kenny Boyle
Kenny Boyle is a writer and actor from the Isle of Lewis. He trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and holds a masters in classical and contemporary text, as well as an honours degree in English, literature and theatre studies from the University of Strathclyde. He is the star, alongside Natalie Clark, of the […]
