Instagram story viewer> @scyllasbite> Posts

Scylla’s Bite

@scyllasbite

1.1K

followers

294

following

Edinburgh based theatre company for women and non-binary artists.
SETA Company of the Year 2024
Created by @abbiemlowe and @rebekah.lou.smith

POSTS STORIES REELS

Let’s talk about Scylla’s Bite 🐺 by @scyllasbite

If you missed our last post, we’ve got ourselves a studio space!

Here is everything you need to know about how we did it, how it benefits you and how you can support us - all in one neat post ✨

A huge thank you to @EdinburghPrintmakers and all they do to support artists. We truly never could have imagined this opportunity coming so soon for us.

We can’t wait to share our space with you 🧡 by @scyllasbite

Join us on Friday 24th July from 10am for our new Creatives Coffee* Club ☕

What is it?
A relaxed coffee morning to bring theatre creatives together in one room.
We want to encourage people to gather in our space for co-working, chatting, and forming connections with fellow creatives. Come and network, borrow from our play library, share your frustrations, or meet new friends.

Who is it for?
This is for theatre makers of all roles and experience levels - we want to welcome everyone who would like to attend! The only restriction is you need to be over the age of 18.

How do I get involved?
You can reserve a FREE ticket at the link in our bio. We'd love to see you there!

*You don’t need to like or drink coffee to attend! by @scyllasbite

Scylla's Script Session launch on Friday 24th April and you can now book your place!

Are you a woman or marginalised gender playwright? Looking for a supportive Edinburgh based writing community? Come and join us at Scylla's Bite studio for our very first scriptwriting session.

This is an opportunity to meet other writers, encourage each other's creative visions, develop your writing practise and even inspire your next project! All this with a play library in the corner and a cup of tea or coffee in the wings.

Book your place now on eventbrite: Link in bio by @scyllasbite

We're launching Scylla's Script Sessions and need your help!

This writing group for women and marginalised gender playwrights will run every two weeks. We will meet and share our current projects, encourage one another, use stimulus and writing techniques to develop our work, and build a strong supportive community.

We want this to be as accessible to everyone's needs as possible, so have created a short questionnaire to help us develop each session. Thank you to those who attended our IWD Bite Nite and have already written us suggestions!

Scylla's Script Sessions Questionnaire: link in bio 🔗
Stay updated on our progress by signing up to our newsletter: link in bio 🔗 by @scyllasbite

There is no where we would rather spend our International Women's Day ❤️

We were so grateful to be able to host Bite Nite for you again this International Women's Day.
A huge thank you to our panelists Jen McGregor, Caitlin Skinner and Emma Ruse, to all of our casts and creatives, and of course to our wonderful audience, who made this night come to life!

Remember to sign up for our newsletter for all the exciting things we have coming up this year 👀 (link in our bio) by @scyllasbite

Meet our Bite Nite panel! 🎤

We’re so excited to be joined by Jen McGregor (@jenbitespeople - Writer, Dramaturg, Director and more!), Emma Ruse (@emmaruseprod - Emma Ruse Productions, Framework Theatre, Director), and Caitlin Skinner (Artistic Director and CEO of Stellar Quines, Director)

We can’t wait for them to answer our questions - we’ll also be opening the floor for a Q&A so make sure to think of your questions ✍🏻

Grab your ticket at the link in our bio! by @scyllasbite

Bunnies on a Trampoline 🐇
Tickets are available for Bite Nite now, link in our bio!

Writer - Kira Mason (She/Her)
A queer, Edinburgh-based writer with an MFA in Playwriting from Edinburgh Napier University. She is the Resident Playwright of Not So Nice! Theatre Company, with work produced by Strange Town, F-Bomb Theatre, Piece of Work, and Reverb Theatre. Several of her plays have debuted at the EdFringe, including Graveyard of the Outcast Dead, which received an Off-Fest Nomination. As an artist, she is interested in stimulating conversation by means of unconventional storytelling.

Director - Lola Rose Wood (She/They)
An Edinburgh-based theatre-maker interested in telling stories about how the ‘human’ (whatever that is) responds to inhumane systems, as seen from an intersectional eco-feminist praxis. AKA they love stories about technology, womxn and the environment, and dislike conventional chronology. As one crooked head of @headsoncrooked they directed 'Mushroomification: Legs, Legs, Legs' at EdFringe 2025 which is heading to London this March! 📷: @josiemorrisonyoung

Brooke - Kate Santos (She/Her)
A Mexican-American Actress and Writer from Los Angeles, California, now based in Edinburgh. She is currently studying drama at Queen Margaret University where she is trying her hand at all parts of both stage and screen production. This semester, she is set to perform in QMU Musical Theatre Society’s FAME (Miss Sherman) and a dissertation production of People, Places, and Things (Doctor/Therapist/Mum). Kate is incredibly excited to be apart of Bite Night as this is her first project with the company!

Aimee - Eilidh Barn (She/Her)
A Glasgow based actor, originally from Dumfries & Galloway. She graduated Edinburgh Napier’s Acting and English course in 2023 and is a co-founder of the multimedia production company Fast Snails. Since graduating Eilidh’s credits include: Happier Daze (RIFF Theatre), Death on the Clyde (Scotch Bonnet), WORM (High Tide), Witches Without Sin (Fat Pooch), The Flat (Fast Snails) and Monogamy (Steam Boat). Monogamy will be premiering at the GSFF this March and Eilidh is very excited as she is a huge advocate for Scottish media and stories. by @scyllasbite

Girls Like That 🪓

Charlotte Smith (she/her)
She is an Edinburgh-based playwright, with a Masters in Drama Writing from Bristol Old Vic. She was longlisted for the David MacLennan Award 2022, 2024, shortlisted for WonderFools' Positive Stories for Negative Times 2024, and mentored by Morna Young as part of the Playwrights Studio Scotland. Her work is sometimes surreal, often supernatural, and always queer.

Catriona Lamb (she/her)
Catriona is a Scottish director and creative who enjoys working in a collaborative space. She has been involved in an array of work, including Fringe shows, youth productions and new original work. She is an Associate Director at Reconnect Theatres, helping to develop exciting, inclusive work with Scottish artists.

Torya Winters (she/her)
Torya is an Edinburgh based actor and graduate of RCS. She enjoys working in theatre and film. Recent work includes producing/acting in 'Family Time', which won the Aberdeen 48hr Film Project, and playing a redneck cannibal and a Christmas elf in interactive shows for Conifox Adventure Park.

Katrina Allen (she/her)
Katrina is a Glasgow actor and writer who trained at East 15. Her recent theatre credits include Jumper Bumps (Gilded Balloon), Treasure Island (Lyceum Theatre), Macbeth (Leeds Playhouse). As a writer, her work champions female-led stories.

Elsa Kerscher (they/them)
Elsa is an Edinburgh based, trilingual actor and theatre-maker. They are interested in depth and truth of a character, searching to create honest and multifaceted performances. Born in Germany, they spent 3 years studying at Cours Florent in Paris before completing their training in Acting & Performance from QMU.

Hannah Fraser (she/her)
Hannah is a recent graduate of the Stage & Screen Acting programme at Edinburgh Napier. She is a founder of Pure Class Theatre. Hannah is passionate about creating opportunity in the arts for working class people.

Aimée Campbell (she/her)
Aimée is an Edinburgh based performer originally from the Highlands. She is a recent First Class Graduate of Acting and Performance at QMU. She is a member of the Wonder Fools Youth Board and Creator & Host of the feminist theatre podcast Spotlight on Her. by @scyllasbite

Shred All The Evidence 📄

Writer - Rose Sarafilovic (she/her)
Rose Sarafilovic is an Edinburgh based actor, producer, writer and the co-founder of A Stop On The Road, a monthly arts night. Recent writing credits include Gate Keepers, A Miracle On Vatican City Street (lyricist), and Metamorphoses (co-writer) with the EUTC. Shred all the Evidence was premiered as part of the EUTC’s Candle-wasters showcase where it was well-received, and it is currently in development for production in the near future.

Director - Hannah Nimmo (she/they)
Hannah is a butch lesbian theatre maker and director from the Highlands who seeks to make radical, socially engaged theatre. After training in Drama and Contemporary Performance at Manchester School of Theatre, they completed an MLitt in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, researching Scottish drag kinging. They have a background in youth theatre facilitation and have previously directed new writing, most recently at Thinking Outside the Box (2025) and Gateway New Writing Festival (2024). Their artistic interests include queer and trans bodies in performance, drag and cabaret, and historically-informed new writing.

Freddy - Pablo López Sánchez-Matas (he/him)
Pablo López Sánchez-Matas is an emerging Spanish performer and writer based in Livingston. Having just graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a masters in acting, he is in the midst of writing his first ever play titled “Carrot Cake”, and is very excited to continue collaborating in creative and diverse spaces. Some of his most recent theatre credits include: Framework Theatre Company's Burnout: A Verbatim Play by Ellen Bradbury, and Bird Eats Bread by Hana Nadira. Pablo is so grateful to be a part of Scylla's Bite Nite!

Anna - Briony Martha (she/her)
You can check out Briony's bio on our Parasocial Activity post! by @scyllasbite

The Shoap 🛍️
Tickets are available for Bite Nite now, link in our bio!

Writer - Stacey Brown (she/her)
Stacey is an emerging playwright in Edinburgh, with a special interest in working class women’s stories. She graduated from Queen Margaret in 2021 with a first degree in Drama and Performance and in 2022, she took part in the Traverse Young Writers course. This year, Stacey has been sharing her stories at scratch nights and is hoping to work on a full production in the near future.

Director - Meghan Wallace (she/her)
Meghan is an early-career theatre director & producer originally from Dundee. She is currently completing her final year on Edinburgh Napier’s MfA directing course and is passionate about theatre that inspires connection in challenging times. At this year’s Edinburgh Fringe she will be directing ‘Living The Dream’ by Michael Johnson for Steel Antler Theatre & is currently the producer at Without Compromise Theatre. Meghan is dedicated to Scottish theatre & work that platforms underrepresented stories.

Brooke - Eilidh Rose (she/her)
Eilidh Rose is an emerging creative who graduated in 2024 with a first-class BA HONS in Acting. Following graduation, she was selected to perform in the Scottish Graduate Showcase at the Tron Theatre and has recently finished a run with Reconnect Theatres ‘Romeo and Juliet’ playing the leading lady herself, Juliet. She is Co-Artistic Director of new theatre company ‘Hot Mess Productions Scotland’ championing fierce, funny and messy female stories.

Louise - Jaydean Cramb (she/her)
Jaydean is a musical theatre grad from Falkirk, she trained at Glasgow Academy of Musical Theatre Arts and received her BA in 2018. Since moving home from London in 2024 she has taken up writing for theatre but still has a huge passion for performing. Her most recent credits include Picture Perfect Christmas at the National Gallery, ‘Featured Dancer’ with the Netflix pride Heartstopper crew and Heidi in Everything Between Us at Marylebone Theatre. Jaydean is really excited to be a part of such an exciting night of new writing! by @scyllasbite

The first announcement for our International Women's Day Bite Nite is... Parasocial Activity ☕

Make sure to grab your tickets because they're going FAST, link in our bio!

Writer - Briony Martha (she/her)
Briony Martha is an actor and playwright from the West Coast of Scotland who trained and worked in France before moving back to Scotland in 2025. She co-wrote and performed "Do Astronauts Masturbate in Space?" which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2025 and has recently been nominated for an OffFest Award.
She is currently in the new playwriting programme “Beyond the Draft” at the National Theatre of Scotland. As a playwright she is passionate about telling emotionally honest stories that centre complex, authentic and fully realised women.
Her new play Parasocial Activity will premiere at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Director - Kate Stamoulis (she/her)
Kate is an early career director and theatremaker based in Edinburgh. Her work centres on devised, ensemble-driven theatre, new writing, and amplifying queer and women’s stories. Originally from the States, Kate graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with an MFA in Theatre Directing.

Recent credits include The Things You Can Only Lose Once (Development, Framework Theatre), Holly Street (Edinburgh Fringe 2025), The Dahlia Files (Brighton Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe 2025), and Assistant Director on Lost Girls/At Bus Stops (Play, Pie & A Pint/Traverse Theatre, 2024). Kate is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Hey Thanks! Theatre Collective, a queer, women-led company based in Edinburgh and London.

Jenny - Millie Rodger (she/her)
Millie is a Perth based actress and playwright. She trained with Performing Arts Studio Scotland, the National Youth Theatre on their social inclusion course Playing Up and Drama Lab. She was also selected as the first mentee on talent programme The Ten.

Recent credits include performing as Eris in Keep it Fringe recipient play Jumper Bumps which was also her debut as a playwright, and the role of Sadie in Higgledy Piggledy’s PALS. Millie is interested in new writing and is really excited to work with other emerging artists to bring this piece to life! by @scyllasbite