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Abigail Docherty

Course Director at Institute of Continuing Education

Major works

She was the 2012 Pearson Bursary Writer in Residence at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Her children’s play One Thousand Paper Cranes won the Best Scottish Contribution to Drama at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011 and has been produced all over the world. Sea and Land and Sky, based on the oral testimonies/histories of World War I nurses won the 2010 National Open-Stage Playwriting Competition at the Tron and is published by Methuen Drama. Other work includes Four Parts Broken (The National Theatre of Scotland) and Room (Tron). Her first radio play, Listen to my Inside Mind was a winner in the BBC Young Playwrights’ Festival. She has written widely for Radio 4, with plays inc **** ~~~~

About me

Abigail is a playwright, working in theatre and for BBC Radio 4. She teaches performance and creativity at ICE.

She is co-director of the MSt in Writing for Performance at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge. Her creative research interests lie in dramatising the voices of women and children who have experienced high-conflict/war-zone situations.