The National Theatre of Scotland’s Starter Programme offers eight funded residencies of £2,500 to help artists develop their skills, networks, and explore a new idea for a piece of theatre. We are delighted to welcome Beldina Odenyo to Cove Park for a residency which will allow her to focus on her project Heir of The Cursed – a caulbearer born of an apparition, a primordial memory, a penny drop. She makes songs influenced by the strange nuances of life, rooted in grief, Scottish weather, the constant and the inconstant.

Beldina Odenyo is a vocalist, guitarist, poet and writer creating work between the fields of music and theatre. Her work attempts to explore the differences and kinship between her dual Kenyan and Scottish heritage through words, music and visual art.