Our Team

Meet the Staff

Our Staff team dedicated to supporting Scotland’s Playwrights.

 

  • Julie Ellen

    Fiona Sturgeon Shea

  • Emma Campbell

    Jackie Crichton

    Gordon Dickson

    Claire Dow

    Isobel Gilmour

    Sonja Lowe

    Amy McKenzie

    Rachael MacDonald

    Alasdair Mitchell

    Rachel Nelson

    Caroline Newall

    Kiera O'Donnell

    Michael Richardson

    Hayley Sinclair

    Claire Yspol

 

Current Playwrights’ Studio staff members:

  • Creative Director

    Louise joined Playwrights' Studio in July 2021 as Creative Director and Chief Executive. Louise has worked as an in-house dramaturg or literary management personnel at the Traverse, Royal Court and Abbey Theatres. She has worked as a dramaturg or script reader with independent makers and with theatre companies throughout the UK and Ireland. She signs to BSL Level 3 and ISL Level 3 and is a trustee for Deafinitely Theatre Company. She holds a PhD in Creativity Management from the University of St Andrews.

  • Executive Producer

    Emma joined Playwrights' Studio in November 2009 as the company's Administrator. Prior to joining the organisation, Emma worked as Office Manager at Borderline Theatre Company for 3 years and for 2 years as their Administration, Research and Marketing Assistant. She has a degree in Archaeology from University of Glasgow.

  • Projects Producer

  • Administrator

Meet the Board

Playwrights' Studio, Scotland are seeking new non-executive directors to join our current board of individuals with different backgrounds, interests and experience all equally committed to delivering the vision and mission of the UK's only playwright development organisation. See Seeking New Board Members for full details.

 

Lewis Hetherington (Chair)
John Ferris (Vice Chair)
Emma Arcari
Clare Duffy
Kate Garbutt
Alex Marrs
George McKeown
Lynda Radley
Sally Reid
Stef Smith
Louise Stephens (Company Secretary)
Dania Thomas
Sharon Thomas

Meet the Associates

Every year, we appoint Associate Playwrights. The role includes providing advice and guidance to the organisation, delivering workshops and mentoring new and emerging playwrights.

 
 

Our Associate Playwrights in 2025 are:

Davey Anderson

Linda McLean

  • Peter Arnott

    Jo Clifford

    Christopher Deans

    Anne Marie Di Mambro

    Chris Dolan

    Rob Drummond

    Clare Duffy

    Oliver Emanuel

    David Greig

    Tanika Gupta

    Chris Hannan

    Lewis Hetherington

    Jules Horne

    David Leddy

    Liz Lochhead

    Douglas Maxwell

    Nicola McCartney

    Johnny McKnight

    Iain F. MacLeod

    Rona Munro

    Adura Onashile

    Lynda Radley

    Sara Shaarawi

    Stef Smith

    Lesley Wilson

Rannsaiche Gáidhlig (Gaelic Researcher)  

We are delighted to be welcoming Elspeth Turner to work with us as Rannsaiche Gáidhlig (Gaelic Researcher) after she received funding from …

This attachment will enable Elspeth to reflect on the organisation’s Gaelic engagement and contribute to two key outcomes: the development of a proposed working Gaelic theatre lexicon and a proposed Gaelic name for Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland.

Elspeth shared:

“Tha mi dìreach air mo dhòigh ghlan a’ bhith a’ dèanamh an obair seo le Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland. Bidh e math fhèin a’ bhith ag ionnsachadh bhon a’ bhith timcheall air dòighean obrach, a’ moladh slighean leasachaidh a thaobh an obair Gàidhlig aig PSS, agus a’ cur cleachdaidhean dì-cholonachadh san obair seo. Bidh mi cuideachd trang a’ cruthachadh Lexicon Briathrachais Theàtair sa Ghàidhlig. Tha mi an dòchas gum bi an lexicon seo na feum do dhaoine aig a bheil Gàidhlig a tha an sàs ann an drama – bho buidheannan coimhearsneachd, gu buidheannan òigridh agus luchd ealain proifeaseanta.” 

I’m really delighted to be doing this work with Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland. It will be brilliant to learn from their working practices, to be suggesting some roads for development for their work in Gaelic in future, and to look at how to embed de-colonizing practices in this work. I will also be busy creating a Theatre Lexicon in Gaelic. I hope this lexicon will be useful to people with Gaelic who are involved in drama – from community groups to youth companies and professional theatre artists.