Exchange Talk: Nicola McCartney - Caring Scotland

Nicola McCartney, lead artist on Caring Scotland, a far-reaching listening and oral history project created by the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS), will talk about the inspiration for and the methodology informing this work. The project will document the lives and experiences of at least 100 members of the care experienced community in Scotland and aims to raise the profile, celebrate the achievements and foster empowerment of the care experienced community.

Nicola McCartney is a playwright, director and dramaturg. She trained as a director with Citizens’ Theatre / G&J Productions and Charabanc Theatre Company Belfast. Nicola was Artistic Director of Lookout Theatre Company, Glasgow from 1992-2002, and has twice been an Associate Playwright of Playwrights Studio Scotland. She has worked for a host of organisations as a dramaturg including Vanishing Point and Stellar Quines / Edinburgh International Festival. She is also a social theatre practitioner and has worked with all sorts of groups including people within the criminal justice system in UK and USA, asylum seekers and refugees, drug users, survivors of domestic violence and childhood abuse. Nicola has worked with Traverse’s flagship outreach programme, Class Act, since 1997. She was a recipient of a Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Olwen Wymark award for encouraging theatre in the UK, and is currently Reader in Writing for Performance at University of Edinburgh where she leads the Masters programme in Playwriting