MIKEY BURNETT

Mikey was selected for the BBC’s 'Scottish voices', Shortlisted for The Adopt A Playwright award and was attached to the Travers Theatre as part of the ‘Traverse Fifty.’ His play In Her Corner was shortlisted for The Papatango New Writing Prize and BBC’s nationwide Drama Room competition. He co-wrote The Bookies which was commissioned by Dundee Rep and had a successful run at Edinburgh Fringe. 

Mikey's new play COLOURS RUN had a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe 25.
- It’s Derby day. A violent Hibs football casual returns home to tell his brother something bad has happened. But has something far worse happened in their past?
'I loved this brilliant new working-class play' ***** (Edinburgh Evening News)


Mikey's writing will not not be appearing at this Decembers show, we will instead bring on the new writing talent of 4PLAY favourite Sean Langtree.

ANDREA MCKENZIE

Andrea is a Scottish actor, director and writer who studied at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, Edinburgh College, and was mentored by Playwright's Studio Scotland. 
She has written seven plays, including THE PERVS AND PLANS OF ONLYFANS, BUTTERFLIES & BENEFITS, and BEING NORMAL - THE MUSICAL, a collaboration with multi award winning composer Malcolm MacFarlane, which received great reviews, especially from people who don’t 'do' musicals.

Her new play is HUNT, starring Deborah Whyte and is directed by Gwen Dolan.


RUARAIDH MURRAY

Ruaraidh is an actor, director, writer and producer. He was selected for BBC Scottish Voices writer’s programme and Short Circuit’s Convergence. 

Ruaraidh wrote FUCKERS - An actor and a comedian fall in love at the Edinburgh Festival and embark on a transatlantic romance but will ambition kill it? Can you have it all…love AND success?

Ruaraidh starred in COLOURS RUN by Mikey Burnett at a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe 25

His new play is CHIPS, which was also selected for PPP's new scratch night Slice of The Pie.

KATY NIXON

Katy has seen six of her plays on stage as well as being part of development programmes like Stage to Page, Page2Stage, Playwrights' Studio Scotland, the Lyceum L20 and was nominated by the Lyceum for the Adopt a Playwright Scheme. 

She won the David MacLennan Award which saw her play JELLYFISH produced by A Play A Pie and A Pint in November 24.

Her play CHEAPO was also produced by A Play a Pie and a Pint and toured to Oran Mor, The Traverse and The Lemon Tree


Katy's writing will not be appearing at this December's show, we will instead bring on the new writing talent of Geraldine Lang.



"Edinburgh company 4Play offer a tantalisingly impressive evening
 
all four short pieces gleam with talent, and are brilliantly delivered
 
it’s thrilling to think what they might produce, given the support they clearly deserve"

 ****
- Joyce Macmillan, The Scotsman

 
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