Theatre Maker
Calum Lynn Dwyer
Director
Calum is a Director, Theatre Maker and Lecturer with a particular interest in autobiographical and verbatim work and platforming marginalised voices.
Fifteen years ago, Calum began training in performing arts, gaining NC-HND Acting and Performance at Dundee College (2009-2012), then their BA (Hons) Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Manchester Met University (2013 - 2016) and finally an MA Classical and Contemporary Text (directing) at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2019 - 2021).
Their work includes Dear Daddy, Who Art in Heaven (2023), Out of Water (2021), Talk To Me (2021), A Wake, It's Mourning (2018), Confessions of a Not Quite Adult (2018), That's Life (2016), See Her (2016) and The Round (2012).
They are a co-founder of Queertre, a Queer theatre company whose first show "The Last Will and Testament of [_______________]" debuted at Bonjour in Glasgow Winter 2023.
Calum is a passionate advocate of empowering marginalised and young voices, making original work, creating socially conscious and political theatre, and is reluctantly a big fan of Shakespeare.