
Scottish society of playwrights AT 50
Fellowship Awards
Ten SSP@50 Fellowship Awards, supported by Creative Scotland, were offered to innovative, inspiring, boundary-stretching projects that honoured, celebrated and promoted playwriting in Scotland. The Awards were open to established and emerging playwrights and theatre makers working in Scottish theatre.
Aims of the Fellowship Awards
To provide opportunities for writers to create new work and provide opportunities for the development of future projects
To foster and strengthen bonds between playwrights and their communities all over Scotland
To encourage experimentation and new ideas about what theatre is – and could become
To celebrate everything that playwrights have achieved over the last 50 years – and look forward to the next 50 and beyond
About the SSP@50 Fellowship Awards
Each Fellow worked with a partnership organisation on projects which combined a focus on local community with a sector-wide perspective, and each project culminated in a public sharing of the work.
Each Fellow received:
- A £4000 bursary
- Project Producer support
- Tailored personal support, which included:
- Writing Space
- Mentoring/Dramaturgical Support
- Performance space
- Technical support
The SSP worked with the University of Glasgow’s Theatre Studies Department during the project, and Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland was pleased to support the Fellowship Awards by supporting Fellows, where desired, through the year with in-kind support for individual projects.

Meet the Fellows
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Elspeth Turner: Teud A’ Briseadh / A Breaking String
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Fergus Morgan: A History of Scottish Drama In Six Plays
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Jack Dickson: Off the Rails / Back on Track
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Jack MacGregor: Faultlines
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Kathy McKean: Archive Project
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Martin Travers: Crown of Straw
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May Sumbwanyambe: A Play investigating Chartism, Women’s Rights, Abolitionism and the Free Church in 1840’s Glasgow
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Michael John O’Neill: Interregnum (Working Title)
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Morna Young: No Ladies
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Rachael McGill: Stromness Plays
Images: Toni Akintunde, Mihaela Bodlovic, Scott Cadenhead, Clare Danke, Tom Dickson, Helga Hone, John McGill, Simon Messer

