Join Gareth Nicholls (Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre) and Ben Fletcher-Watson (Deputy Director of IASH) for a lunchtime webinar providing information on the application process for the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship. The webinar will be recorded, so please register even if you cannot attend, in order that we can send you a link to the recording afterwards.
Applications for 2026 are now open for playwrights and theatre makers for the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship, accompanied by a commission of £12,000. The Fellowship is a collaboration between IASH (the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, supporting innovative research and public engagement activities across the arts, humanities and social sciences) and the Traverse Theatre, Scotland’s leading New Writing Theatre.
IASH has supported playwrights for more than twenty years. Notable writers-in-residence have included Douglas Maxwell, Femi Fatoba, Rona Munro and David Harrower, whose multi-award-winning play Blackbird was commissioned by IASH and the Edinburgh International Festival.
In 2025, we are providing one Creative Fellowship that commissions, develops and supports an exceptional and innovative playwright in the creation of a new piece of work that speaks to our lives now and into the future.
Applications must be received by 17:00 UK time on Monday 29 September.
You can find out more about IASH here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk
You can find more about the Traverse here: www.traverse.co.uk
