I also enjoy the opportunity to praise some of my fav plays... the deep scotland literary conference will be forthcoming im sure

A longer time has now passed between the premiere of Sarah Kane's Blasted and now than between Blasted and the premiere of The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

Was interviewed by the Traverse here. Fantastic to have an opportunity to talk about everything from fencing to biography and the connection between the Cromarty oil rigs and Livi skate park. www.traverse.co.uk/news/10-ques...

Graffiti in Minneapolis at the former 3rd precinct police station that burned in 2020, the Target across the street, Downtown Minneapolis and Lake Street.

trying not to be too vaguepost-y but the past few weeks (months?) have been some of the most difficult I've ever had. But I can feel the days getting longer now, a little brighter, I hope to turn the corner. Lots of love.

First day of the IASH/Traverse fellowship. Feels like being back at school.

album art for 'You May Now Kiss the Bride' by Drama Club

David Bowie, 1975, by Steve Schapiro.

Changing Classes

This is really grim. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...

Back in Edinburgh planning a party for Hogmanay and growing my style with the finest charity shop fashions

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

right that's the work on festive pause for seven festive days. i wish all the people on the half empty bluesky timeline a happy christmas season

in light of some funding setbacks, i am now pulling out all the stops to get a new play on at the edinburgh fringe next year (the best way to get over rejection is to seek more of it) so if anyone has any leads on funding please get in touch x

They'll be dancing in the streets of Saint Mirren tonight!

well my regular gig has set me free right before the holidays - freelance life 🤩✨ good news: my calendar is fully open for work in January! bad news: i still need to pay rent soooo need a Fringe First-winning playwright, dramaturg, producer, marketing manager, or access support? i’m your girl

Once again I keep coming back to the story of 7:84's Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil being denied touring funds in 1973. What followed were a series of letters and meetings that delivered a compromise figure. The most celebrated Scottish play of the last 50 years almost never happened...

20 lbs / 9.7 KG down in three months! Also been trying a lot of ✨️ new things ✨️ lately which has been a journey of self discovery for sure

Disappointing news today from the Touring Fund. Congrats to all those who managed it, very tough to get touring theatre made right now. Current system of a single annual window needs a rethink. It shouldn't be this high stakes, this kind of all or nothing.

Pleased to be able to share more details about my new play FOIL written as part of the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship 2026. Headshot by Josie Morrisson Young, artwork by Susun Miller.

If we want future Tom Stoppards, the sector needs to ensure today’s writers have the same chances, writes Alistair Smith 👇

Fascinating. Mind yourself on here. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

unfortunately have been cursed with an adjective averse name. you can't exactly describe writing as MacGregorian (sounds like a type of chanting)

one of those writers who feel immortal, regardless of whether they are living or dead

new fit for the ppp wrap party last night ✨️

EIF programme from 1970!

Creative Scotland should streamline application and monitoring processes, communicate its plans more clearly and take more risks, according to an independent review. Read more 👇

A beautiful weekend at home.

Got on a bus and ended up here. Not decided where I'll go now.

Brilliant combo of writer and organisations. Jack's a singular writer, exploring topics few others are tuned in to. The research opportunities this partnership offers are going to be such a boon to all!

Nicely done Jack, the Trav and IASH.

A world class honour to be the playwright-in-residence with IASH and the Trav for 2026. Massive!

Thrilled to be appointed the new writer in residence for the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship for 2026. More details to follow soon. www.traverse.co.uk/news/travers...

I'll be presenting an extract of my next play at Capital Theatres Studio, Edinburgh. Thursday 20th November, 7:30pm. Set on a British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific, Catching a Falling Knife explores the interplay between faith and cult. www.capitaltheatres.com/shows/open-f...

frankly ridiculous proposal from @dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social here. 100% funding cuts worth £286,000. An astonishing sum of money for any regional theatre to make up for, would lead to a fight for the very survival of Dundee Rep, absolutely mad www.thestage.co.uk/news/dundee-...

Returning here to my pipe dream of a decaying country house in Argyll, where academics in the humanities and social sciences can go for funded ‘retreats’ in exchange for vague proposals. There would be workshops and communal cooking on low budgets.

the early nights and winter dark is really setting in now, hold onto the hope, folks youtu.be/L4sdU-C1hRk

10 lbs down! Feeling pretty good, making consistent progress, slow and steady.

So I've been following Mali's civil war for almost 3 years now and this is - without a doubt - the most crazy week of the conflict since it first broke out. RU Wagner / Africa Corps unable to hold the sitution together for Goita's military government. www.ft.com/content/36fa...

nothing major happening, but i got a new jacket

A huge honour to help carry the Taiko Dai at the autumn festivals in Sangawa and Mishima. Unusual for foreigners to carry these, had to be vouched for in order to wear a hoppi and shoulder it. Extremely hard work but so much fun. A properly unique experience to carry these gods to their shrines.

Hiroshima today with some very well travelled theatre merch: common tongue shirt, ppp bag x

Postcard from Hiroshima.

a beautiful night with beautiful people, celebrating Isla and Patrick, the happy couple 💛

been buying a bunch of new clothes for an overhaul of The Look for the first time in maybe 5 years? longer? i let everything stop in the pandemic and haven't exactly been in touch with my sense of self, many years of dysmorphia which has been really tough. but - excited to share my new looks!

Lost 5lbs! Great to see more progress.

This article reports that hundreds of scholars—"the vast majority" of those surveyed—say the US has moved into authoritarianism. It then gives equal space to a single outlier who says the source of the expert consensus is that those scholars "are coming from the political left." Incredible.