Skye Loneragan

Skye is Lead Artist and creator of 'Q-POETICS', (the poet and poetry in places and spaces of waiting – queues), and the public engagement strategy Making a Map of My Mistakes (New Victoria Hospital Glasgow). 

Her first solo play, Cracked, (directed by Zinnie Harris) won an Edinburgh Fringe First and was adapted for radio. Her sixth and most recent solo work, Though This Be Madness was performed as part of SMHAF. Solo pieces include the verse piece drawn live called The Line We Draw for Flint & Pitch (following The Arches) and This Impossible Rim, as Wigtown Book Festival’s 2016 writer-in-residence. Solo plays include Unsex Me Here (The Arches) & Plucked of Purpose- the Adventures of PB. 

Skye is a published performance poet, writer of plays for and by young people, and residencies have included Playwright in Residence for Visible Fictions Theatre, writing the play Mish Gorecki Goes Missing (Tron Theatre), shortlisted for three UK awards. She is a current Artist-in-Residence for Glasgow Life.  As Artistic Director for Toonspeak Young Peoples Theatre, Skye created the spoken word project, Word of Mouth which focuses on young writer/performers. She has worked with a diverse range of communities, within HMP, and for a wide age range.