Imogen Stirling
Imogen Stirling is a playwright, poet and producer. Her show Love The Sinner (‘a 70-minute ecstasy of words, sounds, light and brilliant design’ The Scotsman), produced by Vanishing Point toured Scotland supported by Creative Scotland. It was nominated for three CATS Awards inc. Best New Play. Her debut play Starving (‘a brilliant watch’ Broadway World) […]
Amandine Vincent
Amandine Vincent is a writer, storyteller, voice actress, performer and theatre-maker originally from France. She is the founder and artistic director of theatre and production company La Banshee. Her work reflects a fascination for audio and location-based experiences, with a deep interest in women-centric stories, folklore, mythology, history and nature. She strongly believes in the […]
Jo Lennie
Jo Lennie is an early career playwright based in South Lanarkshire. She was the recipient of the Tron Theatre’s Progressive Playwright Award in 2017 and was mentored by Lynda Radley through the Playwrights’ Studio Scotland Mentoring Programme. She was shortlisted for the Scotland Short Play Award (2017) and developed her play Lily with In Motion […]
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 […]
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. […]