Laurie Motherwell is a Glaswegian playwright. His play Sean and Daro Flake it ’Til They Make It premiered at the Traverse Theatre in April 2023, before being performed again during the Edinburgh Fringe in the same year. Also in 2023, Laurie was the Tron Theatre Resident Writer where he developed a new play The Grand Sun Shines Eternal. He has developed plays with other organisations such as the National Theatre of Scotland, An Tobar and Mull Theatre, Macrobert Arts Centre, and Paisley Book Festival. He has previously been a recipient of a MGC Futures Bursary, and in 2019 he was a recipient of a New Playwrights Award from the Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland.
