About me
I have two published plays, ‘Balisong’ and ‘HER’ commissioned by Strange Town Theatre Company for Young People which have received multiple schools tours across Scotland.
I am one of three women who created, produce and write for the Tandem Writing Collective - a scratch theatre company that travels the central belt showcasing new writing and connecting grassroots theatre makers.
I am part of the 2025 Play, Pie and a Pint season with my play ‘Ivor’ which was developed with Tandem Writing Collective. During this project I was mentored by award winning writer Stef Smith.
My Plays
Balisong
Synopsis:
Balisong is a story about Finlay Richards. A name that everyone at school knows. An average 15 year old boy who just wants to be seen. But you won’t see Finn. You won’t ever meet him.
Balisong is a play written for schools as part of the No Knives Better Lives Programme promoting positive and active citizenship among young people when they become aware of a pupil carrying a knife.
Balisong was recommissioned twice and has toured to schools in every local authority in Scotland.
Number of Characters: 3
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3
Length (in Pages): 55
Location: School, home, abroad,
Key Words: Knife crime, active citizenship, young people
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
Award nominations/wins: Balisong was nominated for the Partnership Award at the Herald Society Awards and the Collaboration Award at the Creative Edinburgh Awards in 2018.
Reviews:
“In the 13 years that I have delivered sessions to classes and groups in this school, that is the most engaged I have seen pupils in any input.” - school staff member
HER
Synopsis:
Him and Her. They go way back. Pals since they were babies and totally inseparable, until they weren't.
Loosely reconnecting at high school, they're now 17 and barely recognise each other. What can guys and girls really have in common anyway? How could they possibly understand each other now? After everything that's happened? He's seen some things. And she's about to. Now, they'll need each other more than ever.
HER is a play about the damaging effects of gender inequality, the truth about consent and asks; how can you be the change you want to see in the world when you feel like the world is fighting against you?
Number of Characters: 4
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 4
Length (in Pages): 55
Location: School, home,
Key Words: Consent, schools, gender inequality, young people
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
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https://corrblimey.uk/2024/10/09/review-her-summerhall-edinburgh/
Ivor
Synopsis:
What do you buy the kid who has everything for their 21st birthday? Sarah’s got this one covered. She’s bought her daughter, Scarlet, something so momentous, so magnificent, so mountainous... All Scarlet needs to do is accept it. But Scarlet and her partner Jude have other plans, plans that cannot wait, plans that their very survival may depend on.
Ivor is about sustainability and survival and asks how far you are willing to go for the things you love the most, when those things begin to slip away.
An exciting and surreal black comedy from writer Jennifer Adam.
Number of Characters: 3
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3
Length (in Pages): 62
Location: Kitchen of a house
Key Words: Climate crisis, global south, empty nest syndrome, mothers and daughters
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Scotsman
https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/theatre-and-stage/theatre-reviews-ivor-alas-poor-yorick-5079891
