My name is Milly Sweeney (she/her) and I am a neuro-queer writer and performer from Glasgow. 

Since graduating drama college in 2024, my acting credits include Almond (Civic House,) Baltic (Cumbernauld Theatre,) Log Off, Loser! (Flower Punk Films,) The Little Iceberg (Anam Alba Creatives,) Macbeth (New College Lanarkshire,) and The Caravel (Cuttin’ Aboot Theatre Co.)

It was during my studies that I formed the theatre company, Cuttin’ Aboot. Cuttin’ Aboot makes “unapologetically Glaswegian theatre that cuts through to the soul” with a focus on amplifying female, working-class, Scottish voices. Our productions have been performed in venues across Glasgow and at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023.

I made my professional playwriting debut with "Water Colour" which won the St Andrew’s Playwriting Award in 2024. It received five stars from The Stage Magazine, who called it an "astonishing debut," as well as "raw and real and mightily moving.” In 2025 I won The Stage Debut award for Best Writer with “Water Colour.”

Other writing credits include Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door (A Play, A Pie & A Pint,) Almond (Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival,) The Big Day (Pure Class,) The Caravel (Cuttin’ Aboot,) Wild & Withered and Oz (Glasgow Acting Academy.)

I am keen to create socially engaged work, exploring themes such as mental health, queerness, class and feminism. I am also a budding youth theatre facilitator and was a participant in Youth Theatre Arts Scotland’s “Next Generation” program.