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 Was an Accident, and collaborated on Serial Killer Cabaret. These have been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Horror Festival, London Horror Festival, and various horror-themed showcases and conventions.

Billie explores alternative approaches to creating dramatic texts and often experiments with physical theatre techniques alongside their written scripts, in order to express what cannot be expressed through traditional dialogue. She uses elements from horror and surrealism to create dark, often violent, plays about isolation, and the oppressive powers of norms, expectations, and laws.

The work that they will be developing at Cove Park is a gothic romance set against the institutional violence of the Swedish eugenics policies of the 1930s-1970s, which they started writing during the first Common LAB programme in 2023.

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