Anne-Louise Fortune is originally from Manchester, and moved to West Lothian in 2021. She is studying for a PhD in Film & Media at the University of Stirling. Anne is a performance-maker, working across different mediums, and within a range of creative roles. She is an actor, director, sound and lighting designer and technician. Anne writes socially-published short and long-form fiction, and is also writing a romance novel. She is also working on a memoir-piece, and a number of non-fiction manuscripts, based around the topic of her PhD, and, separately, death. Anne’s theatre scripts have been performed at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival, where her 75-minute adaptation of Hamlet was award-nominated. Anne also writes review and comment pieces on a wide range of theatre productions, films, television programmes and books. She writes for Starburst, the UK’s longest running magazine for genre entertainment, as well as Brig, the University of Stirling’s award-winning newspaper.