Pamela McQueen

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Pamela holds an MLitt in Dramaturgy & Playwriting from the University of Glasgow and has received Arts Council of Ireland  & Dublin City Council bursaries for her research. She is currently a PhD candidate at York St. John University researching audience as dramaturg at public place site responsive performance “Echo To The Now - Audience Constructions of Civic Space in Participatory Performance”.

 

Her writing on theatre has been published in the International Journal of Scottish Stage and Screen and Immersive Theatre: Engaging the Audience (vol. 1) Common Ground Publishing. She has been a peer reviewer for both Creative Scotland and Arts Council of Ireland. Pamela is co-chair with Hanna Slattne of the Dramaturgs Network Ireland.

 

 

Internationally Pamela is production dramaturg on the upcoming Gaeilge/ Gaelic /English play ‘Scotties’ by Frances Poet & Muireann Kelly for National Theatre Scotland and Theatre GuLeor. She is also the Irish associate for Howlround’s World Theatre Map  based at Arts Emerson in Boston. She recently began writing for the Howlround journal http://howlround.com/an-interview-with-playwright-deirdre-kinahan

 

Pamela is New Play Dramaturg with The New Theatre Temple Bar working on new plays with Jane McCarthy ‘The Harvest’, Nadine Flynn & Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, the writer in residence.  Most recently Pamela has been adaptation dramaturg for ‘Jimmy’s Hall’ (Abbey Theatre, 2017 & 2018). She is also development dramaturg with Tom Noone for The Abbey Community & Education Department.  She is currently development dramaturg on several arts council supported independent sector projects  with Melissa Nolan for Speckintime Theatre Company, Katie O’Kelly & Joanne Ryan for Belltable, Arts Centre and Iseult Golden with The Pavilion Theatre in the independent sector. 

 

 

Previously Pamela McQueen was Associate Dramaturg of the Tron Theatre, Glasgow from 2008-2011. She was development dramaturg for new plays with Hi-Arts 2009-2011 supported by Eden Court Theatre and Playwrights Studio Scotland. Freelance Scottish work included Translations (Citizens, 2008) and the Olivier award winning Roadkill by Cora Bissett & Stef Smith (Ankur/Pachamama Productions, 2011).