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
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