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Janette Foggo @lafogster.bsky.social Actor, writer, director, cook. Brings cake to rehearsals. The older I get the more I enjoy things I don't quite understand.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social Writer commentator academic. Books Editor, Bella Caledonia; Co-founder Kirkcudbright Fringe Festival; Co-editor, 'Britain Needs Change: The Politics of Hope & Labour's Challenge', pub. Nov. 28 2024.
Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social Writer, author, poetry, editor, publisher. Founder of Rebel Inc. Co-founder of Bella Caledonia. Co-founder of Neu! Reekie! Co-founder of Push The Boat Out international poetry festival. MDANT. Love poetry, books, chess, volcanoes, Hibs. Citizen of Leith
Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social Playwright represented by Judy Daish at United Agents
Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social Gay husband. Small businessman. Scottish Labour. #LGBWithTheT and women's rights. Pro-EU & pro-UK. Labourhame.com editor. Our Scottish Future board member.
No, I would not like an AI summary.
Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social a guy
rho @rhotonomous.bsky.social they/them
gender anarchist
Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com Theatre-maker, writer, dad;
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Katherine Mendelsohn @katherinemend.bsky.social Theatre dramaturg and stage-play translator (french-english). Mum. Word-lover. Reader.
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Company of Wolves @companyofwolves.org Scotland's leading laboratory theatre company
Performance / Training / Community
The Bacchae 2026 Tour - On Sale: https://companyofwolves.org/projects/the-bacchae
George Docherty @mrgeostak.bsky.social Actor and that. If you need me for work see below. If you need me for anything else, I’m washing my hair that night.
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Adam Butler @adamthebutler.bsky.social Actor | Acting Coach | Edinburgh
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Jack MacGregor @jmacr.bsky.social playwright, director, highlander / messages from the deep (they/them)
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Harry @harrymould.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇯🇲🏴 Writer and Wellbeing Facilitator @UnitedAgents & @PFDAgents. Finalist: Studio21 Drama Series '23, Merky Book Prize '24, PFD Queer Literary Fiction '24. Royal Court Intro to Playwriting 2025. They/she.
National Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social On stage, on screen, on tour
Katharine (they/them) @thesamesky.bsky.social I write things. I light things. I lead projects.
Art. Peace. Justice of all kinds.
And I also do financial coaching. Weirdest portfolio career ever. 
Kris Haddow @krishaddow.bsky.social ✍🏼 Scottish writer. Novel, memoir & PhD in progress
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Nicholas Bone @nicholasbone.bsky.social Theatre director, parent, coffee-drinker. Artistic Director magneticnorth.org.uk
Theresa @theatrespoonie.bsky.social Theatre maker, mathematician, producer, researcher, Edinburgh Horror Festival Trustee, feminist, perpetual student (she/her)
Catherine Bisset @catacts.bsky.social Actor and published playwright #Placeholder
Day job is Head of the Justice Analytical Unit at SG.
Happy to be here.
Frances Poet @francespoet.bsky.social Writer of disappointingly few social media posts. Also writes (less disappointingly?) for stage, radio and screen. Reader in Playwriting and Screenwriting at the University of St Andrews.
Valerie Andrews @valerieandrewsb.bsky.social Hello! I'm a Guatemalan 🇬🇹 actor and producer based in Glasgow.
Graduated from RCS and keen storyteller.
Corin Rhys Jones @corinrj.bsky.social Actor, writer, producer, tour-guide, various other attributes too… 😜
Rob Willoughby @abbenay.bsky.social Theatre and Video artist based in Glasgow. I like play, speculative fiction and Arsenal Football Club. He/Him
Emilie aka Mxcellany 🎭🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @em-c-b.bsky.social Disabled, queer, trans, poet/writer/stage manager/lighting and sound designer/lover of slashes.
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Corinne Salisbury @cjsalisbury.bsky.social Playwright. Theatre Producer. Geek. Multi-brained small-child-juggler. Exec Producer @Fifth Word, Producer @Company of Wolves. Playwrights Studio Scotland awardee. Often found writing feminist/speculative/humanist sci-fi/horror. Derby- and Sheffield-made
James Ley @jley.bsky.social Glasgow-based. Playwright. Screenwriter. Director. Sleazy Tiger (coming soon…) Ode to Joy, Wilf and more (…) Rep’d by Sayle Screen.
Andy McGregor @andymcgregor.bsky.social Scottish theatre director, composer and writer. Artistic director of Sleeping Warrior Theatre
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Colin Little @colinlittle86.bsky.social Scottish actor, podcaster and streamer. Agent - Lovett Logan Associates . 🎧 - Podcast The Nearly Men 🎮 Follow me on Twitch - https://twitch.tv/colin_nm (he/him)
Amble Skuse @ambleskuse.bsky.social Musician Artist Sea Beach Reading Phd Disability Vegetables Cats Scotland Welsh Celtic Travel Cottage Gardening
Tragic Carpet Visual Theatre @tragiccarpet.bsky.social Movement based visual theatre. We use object theatre, puppetry, circus, mime, music, projection, and light to explore stories of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Edinburgh and touring. Freda O'Byrne: https://tragiccarpet.com/
Callum Waiana Madge @calluminium.bsky.social Performance stuff in Scotland. Access Manager for Edinburgh International Festival. Always thinking three meals ahead.
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(He/ him)
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Dominic Corr @dominiccorr.bsky.social Film and Theatre Critic 🎭
Sarcasm is the default setting.
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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social Award-winning actor-playwright & director. Published author.
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Dreamer; mooncalf; poet manqué; lover of the weird, supernatural, uncanny and odd, especially the Grand Master, Algernon Blackwood.
Rod Dixon @reddixon57.bsky.social Off-grid living in D&G, ex Red Ladder AD, now landscape theatre-maker, LFC for life, Gobby Scouser
Clare Prenton @cptheatre.bsky.social UK based Theatre & Musicals director and writer of plays and musicals (book and lyrics). Wife, mother, shaggy dog lover. #collaborator #creative #classics #comedy #newwriting #shakespeare #newmusicals #opera #scouserinscotland #improv 
Caitlin Skinner @caitskin.bsky.social Theatre director. Scotland. AD/CEO Stellar Quines, director Jordan&Skinner. Sometimes freelance.
Rachel Hamada @rachelhamada.bsky.social Director at @takeoneaction.bsky.social Founder and chair at @theferret.scot Former lead on community-led investigations at @tbij.bsky.social Playwright. Love games, play, stories. Scotland-based. She/her
Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social A playwright without a theatre is just a poet with a split personality. For permissions etc, Brennan Artists. https://www.brennanartists.com/
nay dhanak @naydhanak.bsky.social queer playwright, producer, & dramaturg based in glasgow
they/them
http://naydhanak.tilda.ws/
Sophie Jacome @sophiejacomie.bsky.social (she/her) 🌈
playwright/theatre-maker based in Edinburgh
current PhD candidate researching 21st-century productions of ancient tragedy at the University of Edinburgh
Euripidaristophanize '24 🎭
https://www.sophiejacome.com/
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
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He/Him
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📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
F-Bomb Theatre @fbombtheatre.bsky.social Fringe First winners! 🏆 Theatre that’s bangin’ 💣 We aim to celebrate and support women and people of marginalised genders 💖
Hannah Low @hannahlow.bsky.social Actor, Writer, Theatre Maker
REP: Infinity Artists 🤍
Thom Dibdin @thomdibdin.bsky.social Theatre critic of Edinburgh's stages. Owner and editor of All @alledintheatre.bsky.social. Cyclist. Wearer of loud shirts.
Born at 317.73 ppm.
Itxaso ‘Taz’ Moreno @queenoftheclyde.bsky.social She/Her- Basquewegian human & actor - YES 🏴 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 - No pasarán ✊🏼
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Philip Moore @philipdmoore.bsky.social scottish and northern irish actor & writer. he/him.
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Tron Theatre @trontheatre.bsky.social Home of Tron Theatre Company, producing and presenting outstanding contemporary theatrical work that entertains, inspires and empowers.
Jim Harbourne @jimharbourne.bsky.social Edinburgh/Borders-based Composer and Sound Designer for Theatre. Also writer. Occasional printmaker. 
Jen Bites @jenbitespeople.bsky.social In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
Stephen Greenhorn @sgreenhorn.bsky.social Word Monkey
Edinburgh
Passing Places. Glasgow Kiss. River City. Marchlands. Doctor Who. Sunshine on Leith. Dalgliesh. Around The World in 80 Days. Dept Q.
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Michael Cox @mcoxinscotland.bsky.social An academic, dramaturg, critic and editor who dabbles in creating. A cultural nerd and news junky. A Southern Californian expat at home in Scotland.
Leslie Hills @skylinefilm.bsky.social Film producer. Book 10 Scotland Street - an opinionated history of one house over two centuries now out in paperback
Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social Culture and life in Ukraine during war.
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Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
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