Morna Pearson is an Elgin-born Edinburgh-based writer.

PREVIOUS WORK FOR THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND INCLUDES:

Darklands (part of Interference trilogy), Rapunzel (co-writer), and Clearing (Scenes for Survival).

OTHER THEATRE WORK INCLUDES: Impromptu at Oran Mor (Play, Pie & a Pint); Celestial Body (Play, Pie & a Pint); The Last Dance (Tron); Let’s Inherit the Earth (Dogstar/Profilteatern); How to Disappear (Traverse); Dr Stirlingshire’s Discovery (Lung Ha/Grid Iron); Walking On Walls (Play, Pie & a Pint); Bin Heid (Traverse Breakfast Play); Lost At Sea (text, Catherine Wheels); The Library (text, Frozen Charlotte); The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde (Lung Ha); Ailie & The Alien (National Theatre Connections); Couldn’t Care Less (text, Plutot La Vie); Un Petit Moliere (Lung Ha); The Artist Man and the Mother Woman (Traverse); The Company Will Overlook a Moment of Madness (NTS/Play, Pie & a Pint); Elf Analysis (Play, Pie & a Pint); Distracted (Traverse).

She has been a recipient of the Channel 4 Playwright Scheme, Meyer-Whitworth Award and Rod Hall Award. Her first short film, I Was Here (SFTN/BFI) gained BAFTA Scotland and EIFF nominations for Best Short Film. She was selected for EIFF Talent Lab 2021.