Beyond the Draft | Application Form

This programme is for playwrights who self-identify as experiencing barriers to access within theatre in Scotland, including (but not limited to) those who:

• Identify as neurodivergent and/or disabled;
• Come from working-class, migrant, or lower socio-economic backgrounds;
• Have faced geographical barriers to theatre or arts education;
• Experience age, maternity, or caring-related barriers;
• Identify as Global Majority, LGBTQIA+, or part of other underrepresented groups

Please submit below

• A 250-word bio about your writing experience to date alongside any other creative experience relevant to your artistic voice or process. 
• Up to 250 words on why you’d benefit from the programme: this could be what you struggle with now, what you’d like to develop over the course of the programme, or what about the structure and set-up of the programme would be most useful to you and why. 
• Up to 250 words on how this opportunity might fit into and inform your current writing practice, as well as how you might contribute to the sessions creatively and constructively.
• A sample of your work (up to 15 pages of a script for theatre). 
  
  

NB: We will not be assessing and selecting participants according to the nature or extent of their barriers. We will also not be judging submissions on their use of grammar, spelling or formatting.

Upon completion of this form you will be directed to an anonymous Diversity Monitoring Form. Completion of this form this allows us to report information back to the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation around demographic and demand - we would greatly appreciate you taking the time to complete this.