Morna Pearson was awarded the first Rod Hall Memorial Award in 2006. 

Elgin born Morna lives in Edinburgh where she is a Library Assistant at Edinburgh University’s Veterinary Library. In 2002 she was part of the Traverse Theatre Young Writers Group. Her writing experience includes JCN16 a 12 week internet drama for Raindog Productions/BBC Scotland co-written with Martin McCardie, and a rehearsed reading of Untogether at the Royal Court Young Writers Festival, for which she was awarded The Rod Hall Memorial Award.

Morna has won the Meyer Whitworth Award 2007. Click on www.theherald.co.uk.

Distracted, commissioned by The Traverse, premiered at the Traverse Theatre on Saturday 4 November 2006 as part of Tilt - a triple bill of new plays directed by Lorne Campbell, the Traverse Theatre’s Associate Director.

“Morna Pearson is a voice worth listening to” The Guardian

“A wild piece of in-your-face Doric hyperrealism…handled with superb wit and feeling.” The Scotsman

The play is the darkly surreal and laugh-out-loud story of Jamie Purdy who finds himself in a run down residential caravan park in Morayshire. A mother son partnership whose uncongenial view of the world might through light on the original origin of Jamie’s species…

Morna has also just been commissioned to write a new play for The Traverse.

Morna is represented by Charlotte Knight