Alan Gordon

Alan is an Edinburgh-based playwright, originally hailing from Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway. He graduated from Queen Margaret University with a BA (Hons) in Drama and Theatre Arts after specialising in playwriting.
One of the Travers 50, a group of emerging playwrights who were supported by Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Alan has also been mentored by Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and was a recipient of their New Playwright Award in 2016. Working with Edinburgh-based Youth Theatre and Young Company, Strange Town, he has had two plays run at the Traverse (Last Night Me and What Now / What Next).