Lynda Radley

Lynda is an award-winning playwright and dramaturg who has been working in professional theatre for over a decade. Her new play THE INTERFERENCE had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 in collaboration with Pepperdine University. It received a Broadway Baby Bobby Award and was shortlisted for Amnesty International's Freedom of Expression Award for outstanding work addressing human rights issues. In 2011 Lynda won a Scotsman Fringe First for her play FUTUREPROOF, a co-production between Dundee Rep Ensemble and the Traverse Theatre. FUTURPROOF received its Irish Premiere at the Everyman Theatre in Cork this year as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival, followed by an Irish tour, in a new production directed by Tom Creed. Her play DORM was shortlisted for The Bruntwood Prize, the UK's most prestigious new writing award. Lynda took part in the Dream Plays within the Traverse Breakfast Plays program for Edinburgh Fringe 2012, and shared in a Herald Angel award. Her solo show THE ART OF SWIMMING was shortlisted for Meyer-Whitworth and Total Theatre awards and toured internationally. Lynda frequently works as a dramaturg and creative writing practitioner in collaborative processes (National Theatre of Scotland, Citizens Theatre, Tricky Hat, Playgroup, Imaginate, In Cahootz) and is the playwriting tutor for the MLitt in Playwriting and Dramaturgy at Glasgow University.