A Glasgow-based playwright, dramaturg and artist making work for stages, galleries and digital spaces.

His play Scribble, a one-act play about gravity, anxiety and breakfast cereals, won the Assembly Roxy Theatre (ART) Award for emerging Scottish artists. Developed under Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s mentoring programme, Scribble was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Liz Niven’s poetry collections (Canongate then Luath) and pamphlets are in Scots and English. Titles include Stravaigin, Burning Whins and The Shard Box. She has collaborated with artists to locate text in public places as well as books such as ‘Anything you say’, a collaboration about the island of Barra with Tasmanian conceptual artist, Fiona Lee.

Andrew has done seasons at many theatres including the Lyceum Edinburgh and the National in London.

He was creator and Artistic Director of the Scottish Actors Studio for 10 years producing hundreds of World class workshops and also Producer of the Scottish Film Actors and Writers Workshop for 4 years. He was Producer and co-founder of THEATRE PKF (Peace Keeping Force) with his playwright father George Byatt.

Theatre credits include: Scenes Unseen, Miracle on 34 Parnie Street, Ulysses and The Lying Kind this summer (Tron Theatre), Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland),  Dragon (Vox Motus/NTS), Trainspotting (Citizens’ Theatre), Cinderella, Snow White, Potterrow (Cumbernauld Theatre), The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Titus (MacRobert), Titus US Tours (Red Bridge Arts), Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Whisky Galore – A Musical!, The Servant o Twa Maisters, The Life of Stuff (Pitlochry Festival Theatre),

Stuart A. Paterson is a widely published and anthologised Scottish poet living by the Solway coast in Galloway. He writes in English and his native Scots, and is a past recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship.

Mary was born in Glasgow and after working for some years as a window dresser trained at RSAMD. She has played many leading parts in contemporary and classical drama, from Kate in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa and Isabella Bird in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, to Lady Macbeth and the title role in Schiller’s Mary Stuart.

Gemma trained as an actress at Arts Educational Schools, London after having studied English at The University of Glasgow. She has worked across screen, stage, radio and computer game voiceovers.

Credits have included; Taggart for STV, CBBC’s Yo Diary, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, radio campaigns for Visit Scotland and ScotBlood, U.K theatre tours by best selling author Peter James, and Othello at the Riverside Studios, London for which her performance of Emilia was nominated for an Off West End award for Best Supporting Actress. Gemma has voiced the  game, Divinity Original Sin 2.

She is also a writer and spoken word performer and last year created her debut theatre piece, The Jam Diaries, performed at Summerhall in Edinburgh; a look into the struggle for human connection in a modern world run increasingly by apps and devices.

A widely-published poet, Giles was picked up by the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 2013 and enjoyed a yearlong playwriting development programme. A site specific and audio play were both performed as part of the Write Here Write Now Festival in 2013.

He has been writing short plays for the Village Pub Theatre Collective for the last four years. In 2017, he was shortlisted for the Scottish Short Play Award and his full-length play Callings was performed as a rehearsed reading in Traverse Edinburgh.

Giles’s plays have also appeared in the Edinburgh Festival and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Despite living in Highland Perthshire, he is often found lingering in the sound of the sea.

JoAnne was born in Romford, Essex to a family of slaughterers and served as a police officer in Bristol before moving to South West Scotland two decades ago.

A prize-winning and widely published poet, she has produced four poetry pamphlets and has appeared at Literary Festivals throughout the UK.

Amongst other accolades, she was also the 2016 Dumfries Poetry Slam Champion.

Belle Jones trained at the RSAMD where she won the Percival Steeds Prize for Spoken Word and the Norah Cooper Mulligan Award for Verse Speaking.

Performance credits include: The Man Who Followed His Legs and Kept on Walking and A Dream on Midsummers’ Night (Wee Stories), Dark Road (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), REaD (Tidy Carnage), Beauty and the Beast, Red Riding Hood, Aladdin and Cinderella (Plutot la Vie), The Night Before Christmas(Cumbernauld Theatre), James and the Giant Peach (Citizen’s Theatre) Outlander (StarzTV), Rebus (STV), May There Always Be Sunshine and 44 Scotland Street (BBC Radio 4).

Her play Shame ran as part of the Assembly’s curated programme at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Club Award.

Born in Edinburgh, and brought up between Australia & Scotland, Tim trained as an actor at Drama Centre London, graduating with a BA Hons in 2001.

Theatre work includes Translations at Citizens Theatre; The Killing Moon and The Tin Horizon at Theatre 503; The Idiot At The Wall for Stoirm Og; The Giant Killers for Long Lane Theatre; Horizontal Collaboration for Fire Exit; Julius Caesar, Taming Of The Shrew, Richard III, Anthony & Cleopatra, Henry V, Duchess Of Malfi, The Tempest, As You Like It for Bard In The Botanics; Romeo & Juliet for Prime Productions; Our Boys for Theatre Enigma; It’s A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol,Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Canterville Ghost, Hairy Maclary for Nonsenseroom.

Screen acting includes Taggart; Waterloo Road; Children Of The Dead End (Desmond Bell); The Queen’s Wedding (Mentorn); Richard Jobson’s New Town Killers; The Tony Miller Story (BBC Alba); Narcopolis (T Squared Films); Guardians (Braine Hownd); Timbre; Treading Water (Shakehaus).

Heloise spent almost three years associated with the Playwright Studio Scotland, first accepted in the Mentorship program in 2014, she wrote All Women Got Something Of Sido under the direction of Clare Duffy.

In 2016, she was awarded the New Playwrights Award and developed a play Unequally Of Clay And Diamonds under the direction of Alan McKendrick.

In March 2016, she received a grant through the Tom McGrath Institute in order to help create her first production The Paper Bag with the partnership of the Glasgow based company Urban Fairy Tales. The Paper Bag was firstly presented at the Tron before being re interpreted in Govanhill Baths.

Harry Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, now living in Edinburgh. They have lived on four islands, each larger than the last. They have a MA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School and an MA in Sustainable Development from the University of St Andrews. Harry’s work generally happens in the crunchy places where performance and politics get muddled up.

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As a poet, Harry has toured North America, given feature performances at venues from the Bowery Poetry Club to the Soho Theatre, been published widely in pamphlets, art books, anthologies and collections, hosted events at festivals from StAnza to Edinburgh’s Hogmanay, and won multiple slams including the BBC Scotland Slam 2009. They won the IdeasTap National Poetry Competition in 2012, and in 2014 their full collection Tonguit (Freight Books) was shortlisted for the 2014 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and the 2016 Forward Prize for Best First Collection

As a performer, Harry has been featured in the SPILL National Platform, and programmed by festivals and venues including the Ovalhouse, Forest Fringe and Sprint. Their one-to-one show What We Owe was listed in the Guardian’s “Best of the Edinburgh Fringe” round-up – in the “But is it art?” section. They are currently touring a stage show of the year-long endurance writing project Everything I Bought and How It Made Me Feel. www.harrygiles.org

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Julia trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. She is an award winning actor, playwright and theatre maker.

Film & TV credits include: Katie Morag (CBBC), Teacup Travels(CBeebies /Plum Films), Glasgow Girls (BBC), Sunshine on Leith(DNA /Black Camel) and Subway (55 Degrees).

Theatre credits include: Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (Rapture Theatre), The Edinburgh festival hit Blow Off (Edinburgh Traverse), The Great YES, NO, Don’t Know, Five Minute Theatre Show (NTS), Chalk Farm (Thickskin & Glasgow Oran Mor), Rantin (National Theatre of Scotland), The Jeans Jacques Rousseau Show(Glasgow Oran Mor), Hannah & Hanna (Catherine Wheels TC), Aisling’s Children(Red Sky at Night), The Night of the Burning Pestle (National Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Grenwich Theatre) and The Rivals (Wimbledon Theatre).

John is originally from Glasgow and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2011.

Film and TV credits: the feature Anna and The Apocalypse(Blazing Griffin Films), A Long Long Crime Ago (CBBC), Grandpa in my Pocket, The Ha Ha Hairies (Adastra Creative/CBeebies), D-Day Frist Hand (BBC Promo) and Gag (BOVTV).

Theatre credits include: A Christmas Carol (Cumbernauld Theatre), Dick McWhittington (Horsecross Arts), Kidnapped: When Kilts Were Banned (Rough Cut Robin Productions), Thark, Carousel, This Happy Breed (Pitlochry Festival Theatre/Yvonne Amaud), Puss in Boots (Platform), Lovers (Cumbernauld Theatre), Where’s Ellie (New White Productions), Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland), Julius Caesar (Bathgate Regal), Moby Dick: Inside The Belly of the Beast(Darkstuff Productions), and Rumpole of the Bailey (Bath Literature Festival).