Lana Pheutan is an actor, writer and director from the Isle of Skye, currently based in Glasgow. She’s a native Gàidhlig speaker and works bilingually across theatre, film, television and radio. She co-wrote BBC Alba’s flagship comedy, Glan Fhèin, which has been nominated for a Celtic Media Award and is in development for a second series. She also wrote Dad Sam Bith, which was commissioned by MG Alba and the European Broadcasting Union. She also has two published children’s books, Caiptean Cora and Caiptean Cora: Gaisgeach nan Gràineag. She is the current recipient of Playwrights’ Studio Scotland’s Gaelic Playwriting Bursary to write her new play Uanag. She was selected to develop her comedy-drama The Clash as part of the Young Films Foundation in 2021.
Lana is passionate about representing Gaels as bold and complex individuals, writing stories about the people who live in these communities, not the tweed wearing, tattie loving, backward thinking, stereotypes that people are used to seeing. Although she does love tatties.