About
Vlad Butucea is a Glasgow-based, Romanian-born playwright.
He was mentored by Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, and holds a Masters in Playwriting and Dramaturgy from the University of Glasgow. Vlad made his professional debut writing one part of National Theatre Scotland’s sci-fi trilogy Interference (2019). Recently, he co-wrote the film/ stage hybrid The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (National Theatre of Scotland, Selkie Production, Sky Arts), and was a contributing writer on Ghost Light (Edinburg International Festival, National Theatre of Scotland). His new play Silkworm will premiere later this year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a Pearlfisher x The Byre Theatre co-production and in association with Assembly Festival.
Vlad is in the final stages of a PhD in digital theatre at the University of Glasgow, and is a part-time assistant lecturer in drama and performance at Queen Margaret University.
Representation: Michael Eliot-Finch at Brennan Artists Associates.
projects
2022 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (co-writer)
Conceived and Directed by Hope Dickson Leach. Feature Film & Stage Play.
National Theatre of Scotland, Selkie Productions, Screen Scotland, Sky Arts.
UK-wide cinema release (2022), Sky Arts TV release (2023)
The Stage "Breathless narrative drive"
The Reviews Hub "A memorable experience in staging a live movie"
2022 - Silkworm (writer)
Directed by Mojisola Elufowoju. Stage Play.
Pearlfisher. The Byre Theatre. Assembly Festival.
Shortlisted for the 2020 Popcorn Writing Award. Won 2022 Assembly ART Award.
2020 - Ghost Light (contributing writer)
Conceived by Hope Dickson Leach, Jackie Wylie and Philip Howard. Short Film.
National Theatre of Scotland. Selkie Productions. Edinburgh International Festival.
All Edinburgh Theatre "Magical"
2021 - The Edwin Morgan Bot (creator)
Edwin Morgan Centenary. Edwin Morgan Trust. Experimental Digital Practice. AI Poetry.
2019 - Interference: Glowstick (writer)
Directed by Cora Bissett. Stage Play.
National Theatre of Scotland.
"The trilogy ends with Vlad Butucea’s impressive debut Glowstick, about the evolving relationship between a woman with severe disability who just wants to die, and Ida, the android sent to look after her. Amid some brilliantly vivid and dream-like language – and with Maureen Beattie and Moyo Akandé both in exquisite form – the play emerges as a richly memorable piece of theatre". Joyce Mcmillan in The Scotsman (22nd March 2019)
academic
academic
2017 - ongoing. PhD Candidate in Digital Theatre and Performance. University of Glasgow.
Researching human-technological interactions in theare.
Recent Publication: "Gaming as Everything. Challenging the Anthropocene through Nomadic Performativity" in
Nordic Theatre Studies special issue on "Theatre and the Anthropocene".
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