Micah Mackay

Dr Micah Mackay is a writer, historian, and arts fundraiser. She graduated from the University of Oxford with a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages and is also an alumna of the University of York's English and Related Literature programme. She has participated in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Screenwriting short course, the Traverse Theatre's Young Writers Programme, and the Scottish Documentary Institute's Emerging Filmmaker Circle. Micah specialises in arts fundraising and development and has worked with An Tobar and Mull Theatre, Dunedin Consort, Kinfolk Network, Edinburgh Art Festival, and Africa in Motion Film Festival. Her debut screenplay, Number 7, was shortlisted for the 2023 Edinburgh TV Festival New Writers' Collective and she has recently completed a residency with Lyth Arts Centre.