A development programme for early-career playwrights to grow, connect and bring bold new stories to the stage

Date of Activity: October 2025 – January 2026
Location: Glasgow and online
Bursary support: £2000 plus access, travel and accommodation support
Age Range: 18-28

Trajectories New Writers was an intensive new writing programme, including a combination of in-person and online workshops, masterclasses and one-to-one sessions with Douglas Maxwell alongside a range of leading industry professionals. Over a number of months, the artists spent time sharpening their writing skills, experimenting with new ideas and developing their unique playwriting voice, culminating in a professionally directed showcase of their work at A Play, A Pie and A Pint in January 2026 – one of Scotland’s best-loved platforms for new writing.

Directed by Fiona Mackinnon and performed by emerging young actors, these early-stage plays invited audiences to question, examine and absorb the compelling stories these young writers had to tell. Stories that explore identity, belonging and possibility in Scotland’s evolving new writing landscape.

Trajectories is a fully supported bursary programme that invests in early-career theatre artists making new performance work in Scotland. The previous Trajectories programme, focusing on theatre-making and performance, took place in Spring 2025 at Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh. You can read more about that programme here and get an inside look at the young artists developing new work here. 

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