New Works 2024

Festival Director: Fergus Kane

Assistant Festival Directors: Fran Lee and Beth McManus

Festival Team

Executive Festival Team:

Festival Director: Fergus Kane (VP New Works 23/24)

Assistant Festival Director (Creative Liaison): Fran Lee

Assistant Festival Director (Operations Manager): Beth McManus

Executive Festival Production Team:

Festival Tech Director: Saffron Wittka-Jezewski

Venue Designer: Mairi Cameron

Judges:

Iona Bremner

Fiona Stewart

Dr Michael Bachmann

Maddie Beautyman

Eve Nichol

Ellie Harrington

Committee:

Martha Maxwell, Eve Boyd, Adam McIntosh, Lola Gibbons, Annie Inga, Emma Comfort, Iona McClelland, Zoe Yeaman, Isobel Moorhouse, Jasmine Niblett, Jessica Massey, Nathan Harris, Siobhan Meldrum, Olivia Kenny

Venue Design Team:

Martha Maxwell, Eve Boyd, Iona McClelland, Olivia Kenny, Emma Comfort, Siobhan Meldrum, Zoe Yeaman, Mhairi Stewart, Anna Boyle, Kara Paterson, Kelly Grover, Lia Gourley-Gerrard, Eleni Triaridou, Hannah Gemmel, Saffron Wittka-Jezewski

Urned it
Your Place or Mine?
Two Sides of a Sofa
The Most Powerful Drug
Retales
Lads of the Flies

Night 1

Opening Act - String Ensemble

Urned it - Written by Katie Whitham, Directed by Will Gowling and Athena Spillius

Interval Act - The Cecillian Society

Your Place or Mine?- Written by Sofia Macchi Watts, Directed by Elizabeth Bin, Assistant directed by Briony Conaghan

Night 2

Opening Acts - Helena + Cleo
Two Sides of a Sofa - Written by Steph Wells, Directed by Steph Wells and Assistant Directed by Diana Kukharenko

Interval Act - Fran Lee
The Most Powerful Drug - Written and Directed by Lewis Cooper, Co-directed by Rachel Glover

Night 3

Opening Act - Marigold
ReTales - Written and Directed by Sophie Wood, Co-Directed by Kerry McGahan

Interval Act - GU Acapella
Lads of the Flies - Written and Directed by Grace Donaldson, Assistant Directed by Sophie Gattis