Artists in residence

We work with writers, directors and theatre artists through our Playwrights and Artists in Residence programmes. 

IASH / Traverse Creative Fellows 2012 - 2013

We are delighted to announce our continued partnership with Edinburgh University's Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities in a Creative Fellowship to be based within the University. 

Our fellows for 2012 - 2013 are Pamela Carter and Iain Finlay McLeod. Who are working on the theme, 'difficult dialouges'.

Pamela was in residence at IASH from September to December 2012. Pamela's work for the Traverse includes What We Know. Other recent work includes Meat (part of PEEP, Natural Shocks); Skane (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs) and Wild Life (Magnetic North).

Iain is in residence until June 2013. Iain's plays for the Traverse include: The Pearlfisher, I was a Beautiful Day and Homers. Other work includes: Somersaults (National Theatre of Scotland). To read an update on the development of Iain's play, click here. 

Susan Manning from IASH said,"I am delighted that we have been able to appoint two distinguished playwrights with exciting new approaches to our IASH theme of 'difficult dialogues'.  We look forward to welcoming Pamela to the Institute in the autumn and Iain in the spring."

Previous IASH / Traverse Creative Fellow - Jo Clifford - created her play The Tree of Knowledge whilst based at the institute, where she studied the life and work of David Hume. The play reached full production in December 2011 and was one of the Traverse Theatre's most successful Christmans plays to date. 

Resident Playwright at the ERSC Genomics Forum 2010 - 2011

Peter Arnott was our Resident Playwright at Edinburgh University's ESRC Genomics Forum in a partnership between the Forum and the Traverse Theatre. Read more.