Alex Marrs
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Alex Marrs (she/her) is a producer and arts administrator living in Glasgow. She is the Programmes & Communications Producer at Cove Park, an international artists’ residency on the west coast of Scotland. She is a co-producer on Austen’s Pride, a new musical. Previously, she has served as the Executive Producer of Brooklyn-based theatre company Colt Coeur; Chief of Staff and Manager of Individual Giving & Special Events at Primary Stages, a nonprofit Off-Broadway theatre company. She has worked as the Assistant Director of Arts Advancement at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at Long Island University and at her alma mater, Christopher Newport University in Virginia, in advancement for its academic arts programs, Ferguson Center for the Arts, and a fine art museum. She is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute fourteen-week producing intensive and an alumna of TedxBroadway’s Young Professionals group. In 2022, she graduated with distinction from the University of Glasgow with a MSc in Creative Industries & Cultural Policy. Alex is a trustee of Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and serves as co-chair of Colt Coeur’s Board of Directors.
The residency has been devised in partnership with Andrew Panton, Artistic Director of Dundee Rep Theatre, and will include facilitated sessions with Dramaturg Jeanie O’Hare (formerly Director of New Work Development at The Public Theater), Music Supervisor James McKeon (Musical Director: Moulin Rouge! The Musical, London), Donna Lynn Hilton, Artistic Director of Goodspeed Musicals, Connecticut and David Greig, Artistic Director of Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. Shonagh Murray joins as Associate Musical Supervisor, with Imogen Stirling, supported by Playwright Studio Scotland, joining as Associate Dramaturg.
The creatives will also benefit from networking opportunities and workshop sessions, both in-person and digital, with industry-leading writers, composers, producers, directors, and other theatre practitioners – including Tony® Award-winning director John Doyle, Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning producer Mara Isaacs, Tony® Award-winning producer Rashad V. Chambers, and more.
Presented by Cove Park and Dundee Rep Theatre in partnership with Capital Theatres, Citizens Theatre, Macrobert Arts Centre, National Centre for the Performing Arts – Mumbai, National Theatre of Scotland, Octopus Theatricals – New York City, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, and Traverse Theatre. Associate partners include A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, and Tron Theatre.
