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 […]
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), […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]