Isla Cowan

Isla Cowan

Isla Cowan is an award-winning playwright, performer, and director, from Scotland. Isla specialises in making ecofeminist theatre, and is committed to exploring issues of class, gender, and ecology in her work. In 2024, Isla was Resident Writer at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, and Playwright in Residence (IASH) at The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Recent plays include: Alright Sunshine (Tron Theatre), To Save the Sea (Sleeping Warrior), She Wolf (Assembly Roxy: Assembly ART Award, Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize, Filipa Bragança Nominee), To the Bone (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), And… And… And… (Strange Town Touring Company), and Daphne, or Hellfire (Pleasance).

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