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Jen McGregor

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Contact: [email protected]
Local authority: Edinburgh City
Languages: English
Author type: Playwright, Poet, Screenwriter, Spoken Word Artist, Writer
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Jen McGregor is a writer, dramaturg and director, trained at Mountview and mentored by Rob Drummond through Playwrights Studio. Her play Heaven Burns won the 2018 ART Award. Playwriting credits: Sons of God (Piccolo Theatre of Milan, Italian tour) Volante (Hothouse @ Traverse, EMSF, Tom McGrath award), Canto X (Fronteiras Theatre Lab/Manipulate), Screech (Stellar Quines’ Make Do & Mend), The Premorial (Birds of Paradise/Perth Theatre) and Ghost Stories (Pitlochry Festival Theatre). Her short stories and essays have appeared in New Writing Scotland, 404 Ink’s Nasty Women, Haunt Publishing’s Haunted Voices, and a variety of lit mags. Her novella Heaven Burns is published by Leamington Books. Jen has run workshops in writing and devising for the University of Konstanz, University of Edinburgh, Teatro Sala Umberto, Opera Festival Scotland and her repeated sell-out Monday Night Write for Edinburgh Acting School.

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Local authorities will visit

Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

Events will deliver

Chairing events; Mentoring; Panel event; Performance; Reading; Residency; Talk; Workshop

Audience will work with

People experiencing mental health problems

Topics of work

Adventure; Biography & memoir; Contemporary fiction; Death, grief & bereavement; Fairy tales, folklore & mythology; Fantasy; Historical fiction; Horror; LGBTQIA+ characters; Performance training; Science fiction

Age groups published for

Children; Teens; Adults

Age groups will work with

6-8; 9-11; 12-14; 15-18; 18+

Audience size

0-10; 11-30; 31-100; 100-500; 500+