Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Abigail is a playwright, working in theatre and for BBC Radio 4. She teaches performance and creativity at ICE. She is co-director of the MSt in Writing for Performance which opens in September 2020. Her creative research interests lie in dramatising the voices of women and children who have experienced high-conflict/war-zone situations. She was the 2012 Pearson Bursary Writer in Residence at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Her children’s play One Thousand Paper Cranes won the Best Scottish Contribution to Drama at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011 and has been produced all over the world. Sea and Land and Sky, based on the oral testimonies/histories of World War I nurses won the 2010 National Open-Stage Playwriting Competition at the Tron and is published by Methuen Drama. Other work includes Four Parts Broken (The National Theatre of Scotland) and Room (Tron). Her first radio play, Listen to my Inside Mind was a winner in the BBC Young Playwrights’ Festival. She has written widely for Radio 4, with plays including Ursula and Boy and Edward, Edward. Her teaching uses mixed-media, including music, poetry, and art-making, in order to encourage students to create dramatic voice and text.
Corporate creativity
Psychology of work
Cultural psychology
Council Member, Scottish Society of Playwrights
The Script Factory