Billy Cowan

Billy has a BA(Hons) degree in Imaginative Writing/Theatre Studies and an MPhil(b) in Playwriting Studies. His plays include Daddy (B’ham Rep 2004), Heart is a Lonely Hunter (24:7 Festival, Manchester 2004) Smilin’Through (Contact, Birmingham Rep, Queer Up North 2005) and Stigmata (The Drill Hall, London 2006). He has just finished a new play called Transitions which received an ACE, Grant for Arts Award. He has also written a T.I.E. play called Sidelined for Bolton Octagon’s Activ8 group.

Billy is also an experienced drama facilitator and works part-time as a Youth Theatre Leader for M6 Theatre Company and The Stockport Garrick. He is committed to working with young people on the margins of society and has completed many projects with excluded teenagers for organisations like The Phoenix in Bolton, Fairbridge and Youth Challenge.

Billy also writes fiction and his next short-story At That Age is about to be published in a book about gay parenthood called Donors and Dads (Haworth Press, Canada).

In 2005, Billy received support from The Peggy Ramsay Foundation which helped him to write Stigmata.

Links

24:7 - Daisy Wang meets Billy Cowan