Gerda Stevenson at SCAP Arts and Music Summer Festival

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Gerda Stevenson at SCAP Arts and Music Summer Festival

Saturday 26 August, 2023 at 1.30 p.m.

Saturday at the National Piping Centre, 30-34, McPhater Street Glasgow G4 0HW

Gerda Stevenson: is a writer/actor/director/singer-songwriter. She works in theatre, tv, opera, radio, and film, founder of Stellar Quines Theatre Company.

Poetry collections include: QUINES – Poems in Tribute to Women of Scotland; IF THIS WERE REAL; TOMORROW’S FEAST; INSIDE & OUT – the art of Christian Small – biographical introduction and poems by Gerda; EDINBURGH, with photographer Allan Wright; Prose: LETTING GO – a Timeline of Tales.

Gerda is the founder of Stellar Quines theatre company, and was Associate Director of Communicado theatre company. She has written many original dramas for BBC Radio 4, as well as adaptations of classic Scottish novels. Directing: many plays for stage, and short films, including George Mackay Brown’s The Storm Watchers for the St Magnus International Festival.

Nominations include: three times for the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland; MG Alba Scots singer of the Year, for an album of her own songs – NIGHT TOUCHES DAY; London Festival Fringe Theatre Writing Award for her play FEDERER VERSUS MURRAY, which toured to New York, published in the USA.

Awards: BAFTA Scotland Best Film Actress for Margaret Tait’s BLUE BLACK PERMANENT; Robert Tannahill Poetry Prize.

Gerda will be joined by writers Bob Beagrie, poet, writer and performer and Ross Donlan Australian Poet.