Linda McLean
Joyce McMillan
Ronan O’Donnell
Anna Reynolds
Gemma Bodinetz
Nicholas Bone
Marcus Richardson
Marcus (they/them) is a theatre maker. Their practice leads them to direct, perform, and write. Their work often centres around autoethnography and autobiography to explore the multiplicity of identities that we as individuals possess. They seek to create work that explores the complex relationships, not just between characters, but also the performer and the audience. […]
Jo Harper
Jo Harper (she/her) is a UK based playwright and screenwriter, also a theatre maker, script reader and dramaturg. Her focus is female driven stories featuring compelling protagonists 40+. She’s just finished shooting an anthology feature film with director Athena Mandis in London and she’s currently developing a feature film about a surprise 50th birthday party […]
Dirck Backer and Maria Myrgård
Dirck Backer and Maria Myrgård are theater makers and performing artists from Denmark. They are working as both directors and actors. In about 40 years they have been producing theatre in their own touring theatre Teater Patrasket, mainly with theatre for children and their adults. They want to create theater from the heart, to touch […]
Billie Willett
Billie Willett is a queer, autistic playwright, dramaturg, and occasional performer fascinated with horror. Currently based in Stockholm, they started their writing journey in Edinburgh. In 2017, she graduated from Queen Margaret University and immediately went on to co-found the horror company Nevermore Theatre. With them, she wrote the plays EH16: Pyre and Suppose There […]
Meghan Tyler
“Irrepressible, Glasgow-based, Irish theatre minx” Meghan Tyler is an award-winning playwright and actor from Newry. Their play CROCODILE FEVER stormed the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Traverse Theatre in 2019, and recently won the prestigious Stewart Parker Award. They have won the Channel 4 Playwrights Bursary, the New Playwrights Award with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, and […]
Rachel Main
We are delighted to host Playwrights’ Studio Scotland New Playwrights Award winners at Cove Park, a partnership established several years ago and bringing wonderful writing talent to Cove Park from across Scotland. Taking part in May 2024 is Rachel Main, a screenwriter and playwright from Glenrothes, Scotland. She is a graduate of MFA Dramatic Writing […]