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Jennifer Adam is an award winning Scottish Playwright. She is the Co-Founder of the Tandem Writing Collective, a female led scratch theatre company which has produced 58 short plays at 26 events since 2016. As one of three playwrights who make up Tandem, Jennifer has written 21 of these short plays, directed two of them and co-produced all 58. Jennifer was commissioned by Strange Town Theatre twice, creating engaging plays for schools about knife crime (Balisong) and sexual harassment/consent (HER) Both plays have been published by Salamander Street Theatre.  Jennifer has written two plays for the Edinburgh Just Festival, a number of short plays, and has also written a short radio play, Looped, for BBC Radio Drama. Jennifer was shortlisted for the Tron Theatre’s Mayfesto Award in 2019 and was one of the Playwrights' Studio Scotland's mentored playwrights in 2017.

Catriona MacLeod, proudly from the Isle of Mull, has worked in theatre for over a decade, and latterly moved into film. With a background in writing, directing, performing and self-producing, she created solo cabaret as Cat Loud, wrote and directed SPIN! with Vanishing Point as their Associate Director, and her second play Blast Off, Starburst ran at A Play, A Pie and A Pint last November. She is currently Artistic Director and Executive Producer of _and friends, a performance and artist development initiative, running scratch nights of brand-new performance in Glasgow and Edinburgh. In film, she was commissioned to make her first short film through GMAC Film's Little Pictures scheme in 2021 and is currently one of the inaugural participants of the Sean Connery Talent Lab with NFTS, directing short Gaelic-English bilingual comedy Lady MacLean written by Lana Pheutan and produced by Katie Mallinder.