Amy Hawes is a Glasgow-based TV writer, playwright and primary teacher. She was the sole writer on two series of animated educational films produced by Playdead, culminating in 49 short films for BBC Bitesize Scotland ('The Victorians', aged 9-11) and BBC Bitesize Wales ('KS3 Science', aged 11-14). Other commissions include a series of online training videos for the NHS (RealPlay), and episodes of CBeebies 'Molly & Mack' and 'Biggleton' TX Nov & Dec 2018.

Amy has written/directed a BAFTA New Talent-winning film ('Falling for Fitzgerald', 2012). She's worked as researcher/AP on 20+ TV shows including 'Hollyoaks', 'Down on the Farm', & 'Saturday Mash Up' ; as Jnr. Storyliner on 'River City'; & in development for Warner Bros. Specialising in children's TV, she's written/directed sketches for CBBC Presentation & CBBC travelogue 'All Over the Place'. Graduating with an MA in English Language from Edinburgh University in 2009, Amy was awarded a scholarship from Warner Bros. Creative Talent for the celebrated MA TV Fiction Writing Course at Glasgow Caledonian University, graduating with distinction in 2014 and a treasured alumni position on the WBCT programme.

In 2021, Amy began a brand new adventure and met her most demanding audience / collaborators to date. She is now a primary teacher, sharing her love of making up stories with six and seven year olds.

Jennifer is an award winning Scottish Playwright, her play Walk a Mile was one of five plays that won the Scottish Short Play Award in 2017.

She was commissioned to write the play Balisong about knife crime and active citizenship with Strange Town Theatre in partnership with Fast Forward and No Knives Better Lives.Balisong has since been recommissioned twice, touring schools across every local authority in Scotland between 2017 and 2019. The show was seen by 44,000 young people at 225 performances and the text has now been published by Salamander Street Publishers.

Jennifer has written two plays for the Edinburgh Just Festival as part of the Edinburgh Fringe with Black Dingo Productions, one of which, Warrior, went on to tour in two separate school runs funded by Nil by Mouth and Sense over Sectarianism. Warrior also received a run at the Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow.

Jennifer has written a number of short plays, working with Strange Town Theatre Company, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Play Pie and Pint, Tron Theatre, Moonfly Theatre Company, In Motion Theatre Company, Braw Fox Theatre Company, Discover 21 and Village Pub Theatre. She has also written a short radio play, Looped, for BBC Radio Drama.

Jennifer was shortlisted for the Tron Theatre’s Mayfesto Award in 2019 and was one of the Playwrights' Studio Scotland's mentored playwrights in 2017.

Mhairi's work has been performed at the Tron Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Assembly Roxy, The CCA and Oran Mor. She was a finalists of the Tron’s Progressive Playwright Award. Her short play Preparing for the Afterlife was directed by Andy Arnold for the Take Me Somewhere festival. Mhairi has written comedies for In Motion Theatre Company's Winter Words and ReWrite Festivals. She was selected for the Mentoring Programme by the Playwrights Studio Scotland. Mhairi makes up one third of 'The Tandem Writing Collective'. Her new work with the company can be seen at the Tron and Traverse in April and May of 2022. Her short film script Little White Lies was shortlisted by Underwire Festival and co-produced by INDELIBLE INK through the Glasgow Film Accelerator Scheme run by Sigma Films and the SFTN.

As part of the BBC Scottish Voices scheme, Mhairi has had particular interest in her comedy writing and lately she has been developing two comedy series pilots for TV. Mhairi also has a range of experience in writing for younger audiences. In 20/21 she was part of the writing team for Winduna Enterprises LTD’s new children’s show ‘Winnie and Wilbur’ based on the best-selling books by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul for Milkshake! on Channel 5. Interest in her submission for the CBBC’s Children’s Comedy Monologues opportunity led her to be invited onto the BBC Children’s New Voices scheme for 2021. Most recently, Mhairi was credited for her work as part of a BBC Writers’ Room for the development of their new ‘CBeebies Presents’ show. Following this she was then recommended by Kay Benbow (ex CBBC Controller) to be part of the development and writers’ room for Three Stones Media’s ‘Attention Action Ayshia’ which was funded by the BFI’s Young Audience Content Fund. Mhairi writes and performs spoken word poetry. She is a Pastoral Care teacher in Glasgow, and she can communicate in British Sign Language.