Kathy McKean: Archive Project

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30 November 2024

To celebrate 50 years of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, in 2024 ten Fellowships Awards, were granted to innovative, inspiring, boundary-stretching projects that honoured, celebrated and promoted playwriting in Scotland. Supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.

About Kathy

Kathy McKean studied English Literature and Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow.

Her first play Becoming was commissioned by lookOUT Theatre and was later performed at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. She was part of the Traverse Fifty group, and Leave Taking was performed as part of the A Play for Edinburgh project. Recent work includes Getting Close, written as one of the NTS’s Scenes for Survival. She is currently writing a new adaptation for the next season of Bard in the Botanics.

The Project

This project by Kathy McKean begins a process of celebrating women playwrights in Scotland, both past and present, by researching and documenting the texts and writers whose work is our shared history. The aim of the project is to create a dynamic archive in which extracts from plays are shared alongside thematic pairings with contemporary playwrights.

Kathy’s project is being developed in partnership with Stellar Quines Theatre Company, Edinburgh.