Letting Go

Gerda Stevenson, writer/actor/director/singer/songwriter, has worked on stage, television, radio, film, and opera, throughout Britain and abroad. She has read her poetry at many international festivals, including Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ireland, Trinidad, and Italy. A recipient of Scottish Arts Council and Creative Scotland writers’ bursaries, her writing is studied on the Contemporary Scottish Literature course at the University of Glasgow. Her poetry collection If This Were Real was published in Italian by Edizioni Ensemble in Rome, 2017. Her stage play Federer Versus Murray toured to New York in 2012, part of the Scottish Government’s NYC Scotland Week celebrations. Stevenson is a familiar voice on the airwaves, and has written many plays for BBC Radio. She has won a Scottish BAFTA Best Film Actress award, and nominations include three times for the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, for the International Committee of New York’s League of Professional Theatre Women’s Gilder/Coigney International Award, and for the MG Alba Scots Singer of the Year Award, following the launch of her acclaimed album Night Touches