Jack MacGregor

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From the deerstalker to the séance. Arthur Conan Doyle’s last novel was intended to convert readers to spiritualism and help avert the apocalypse, but has bewildered publishers and readers ever since. I spoke to Prof Christine Ferguson to find out more: www.thenational.scot/culture/2656...

Somehow we sold out the entire run of Prophets. Unbelievable. Totally blown away by the response.

This was an all timer interview. Absolute pleasure speaking to The Skinny about Prophets... we open tonight!!!

Prophets opens tomorrow 👁🌊🔪🪸 So grateful for this team. I have loved working alongside them. PROPHETS @assemblyroxy @assemblyfest 17:45 August 5 - 31st

Just some grass

Okay, so with seemingly no prospect of a job anytime soon whatever I do or say, I am once again asking: For freelance RA work suitable for a contemporary historian, for research and writing, for journalism… which I already do on a regular basis as a newspaper columnist…

"Oh but you used to be able just inherit a seat from your dad and we got rid of that so its fair now, and modern" what are you talking about it, look at it. Look

Grateful to @scotnational.bsky.social for this personal profile where I somehow get to mention Bioshock, Frightened Rabbit, and my doomed pipe dream of an independent Highlands & Islands. www.thenational.scot/news/2625365...

"What happens when you put that kind of power, that kind of certainty, on a tiny island of 48 people?" Check out our interview with Jack MacGregor & Fraser Scott ahead of 'Prophets' at #EdFringe ➡️ www.bingefringe.com/2026/06/22/i...

Really loved the chance to talk with @bingefringemag.bsky.social about Prophets. A killer headline too. Very on-brand. I actually love writing plays so much lmao www.bingefringe.com/2026/06/22/i...

TravFest26 is growing! We're delighted to expand our August activities with an award-winning new play, along with a series of artist events that deepen our celebration of new writing. Find out more about these additions to the programme by heading to the Traverse website!

Join us on Monday 24 Aug, 16:00-17:30 for a reading of FOIL, the new play by this year’s IASH-Traverse Creative Fellow Jack MacGregor @jmacr.bsky.social 🤺 www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve... We’ll advertise for the 2027 Fellowship later this summer!

Total Scottish culture spending fell by 33% between 2013 and 2025, from 1.12% of all local and national expenditure to 0.75%, according to campaign group Culture Counts’ new long view dataset on the country’s public investment in the arts.

Totally thrilled to see PROPHETS as one of The Herald's picks of the Fringe, brilliant company to be in on this fantastic list of new shows coming this August. Thanks @brianjaffa.bsky.social for the support!!! www.heraldscotland.com/news/2615160...

Join Dr Helen Shutt and playwright Jack MacGregor (@jmacr.bsky.social) to celebrate the release of "Playwriting and the Craft of Audience Participation" (@universitypress.cambridge.org) on Thurs 18 June at 5pm. 📖🎭 helenshuttbooklaunch.eventbrite.co.uk

The changing of the seasons is marked by ancient rituals: I’m searching for freelance/consultancy/ research work. I’m a social historian by profession, a very experienced researcher and oral history interviewer. I’m also a published writer and a public history journalist. Surely, I am employable…

At the start of April, we announced new Standard Play Contract Rates for playwrights in Scotland, negotiated with our friends at the Federation of Scottish Theatre. These went into effect immediately, and more info can be found through the link in our bio. #playwright #scottishplaywrights #fst #ssp

A glimpse of my new play 'FIREWORK' was performed the other week in Glasgow, which for a play about an arsonist felt pretty appropriate. My fantastic actor Briony Martha was burning down the house and the extract was a big hit with the audience. Photos taken by Jack Young / Type 40 Photography 📷👁️🔥

"I think it doesn’t matter what people say after a thing has happened. It’s the nature of transformation - one state to another. Irreversible." Will be presenting an extract of my new Glasgow-set solo play "Firework" on April 8th. Link to tickets below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ill-scratc...

Thrilled to announce that my new play Prophets will be at Assembly Roxy this year and has been given the 2026 ART Award, platforming Scottish new writing at the Edinburgh Fringe. Tickets on-sale soon. Would love to see you in August 👁

Some recent photos showing off the weight loss. 42 lbs / 19kg down in 4 and a half months. Got a wee bit more to go but it's been really nice to feel better in my own body for a change.

Huge honour to be on a panel talking about theatre in Scotland and Japan, specifically site specific work, thanks to @scottishopera.bsky.social UoE and the Japanese Consulate. Brilliant keynote lecture from scenographer Junpei Kiz about his production of The Mahabharata at Avignon Festival 2014

I should also say that we are partnered with @creativescots.bsky.social Crowdmatch! Meaning that every donation will be matched by them! For example - if you give us £20 it will become £40 so even small amounts will add up. Thanks a million to everyone who has shared and donated so far!

Jack is the real deal, a great writer and lovely person. Do consider supporting if you can.

Jack is a writer of real political scope and ambition, who sees the human within big geopolitical narratives - a global outlook that is a shot in the arm to the at times parochial tendencies of our theatre, a vital part of the future (and present moment!) of Scottish new writing. Please support!

a huge week for Foil development

good evening beautiful people

paid my taxes. all my money gone.

For no particular reason I'd like to share this video about access to trans healthcare in the UK, specifically England but the same principles apply to Scotland. Many barriers, years of waitlists, dehumanising treatment, bankrupting private costs to get around it. youtu.be/v1eWIshUzr8?...

i remember coming home from primary school (in scotland) and going on the xbox to play halo and my (again, scottish) dad coming through and telling us to turn it off and watch the inauguration "it's history, just watch it" and sure enough I remember it really well. when the future seemed possible

wearing a new fit for today while i file my taxes

it was a nice weekend

A beautiful day at @pitlochryft.bsky.social for OUT IN THE HILLS. Brings me so much joy to see a Queer theatre festival happening in Scotland. Long may it continue.

I also enjoy the opportunity to praise some of my fav plays... the deep scotland literary conference will be forthcoming im sure

A longer time has now passed between the premiere of Sarah Kane's Blasted and now than between Blasted and the premiere of The Homecoming by Harold Pinter