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Dateline: 20th November, 2006 Arches Award for Stage Directors 2007 For the first time since its inception, the annual Arches Award for Stage Directors has announced two female winners: Cora Bissett and Rosie Kellagher. This year the Award is run in association with Traverse Theatre and NTS Workshop. Previous winners include Davey Anderson, whose Award-winning piece Snuff is currently finishing a national tour, and Neil Doherty, whose Award-winner Tone Clusters played to sold-out audiences at the Traverse during the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and who recently directed Megan Barker's highly acclaimed Pit at the Arches. Both winners' plays will be developed through the NTS Workshop and rehearsed at the Arches before opening the Arches Theatre Festival in April and transferring to the Traverse for a week's simultaneous run. About the Winners Cora Bissett has worked in Scottish theatre for many years - appearing in I Licked A Slag's Deodorant and Horses Horses Coming in All Directions in the early days of Arches Theatre Company, and going on to play Chris Guthrie in the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company's touring production of Sunset Song. Her most recent work includes the multi award-winning feature film Red Road, ITV's Rebus and The Wolves In The Walls for NTS. She's also an accomplished musician, having collaborated with Scottish bands Mogwai, Arab Strap and Swimmer One, and released records with her own band Swelling Meg. Her piece, Amada, is adapted from a short story by Isabel Allende. Bissett is a first time director, and will be using physical performance, visual poetry and "Basque-wegian" singing to create a sensual, Latin American-influenced work. Rosie Kellagher's piece, Mother, Father, Son is the first stage play by new writer Hugo Plowden. Examining the Japanese phenomenon of Hikikomori - young middle class men living with their parents who have locked themselves into their rooms, communicating only on the Internet - Kellagher intends to make a strange contemporary horror piece. Mother and Father dance to their old ballroom records and leave food outside Son's door three times a day. They barely remember what he looks like, and have settled comfortably into their routine, until one day they discover two severed fingers outside his door. Kellagher is currently the Staff Director for Oran Mor's Play, a Pie and a Pint. She has worked as an Assistant Director for Stellar Quines and on the Royal Lyceum's recent production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She served as Artistic Director's Assistant at the Lyceum, working first with Kenny Ireland and latterly with Mark Thomson. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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