Summary
Conway Mcdermott is a Narrative Designer and award-winning stage and screenwriter with eight years of professional experience blending storytelling, performance, and emerging interactive technologies. Based in Calderdale, England, Conway has written for the BBC, Sky Arts and Box of Tricks Theatre and won the Screen/Play Award, while also delivering community-facing workshops and projects as a facilitator with FACT. Transitioning into tech through a Northcoders full-stack traineeship, Conway now applies creative coding and narrative design at Smile More Productions to build immersive, story-led experiences. Comfortable moving between freelance arts work and collaborative production environments, they bring an unusual mix of theatrical craft, facilitation skills, and growing software fluency. Conway’s background in fine and studio arts informs a visual, user-centered approach to narrative systems that aims to make interactive platforms more emotionally resonant. Always open to new collaborations, they quietly combine playwright-level structure with practical technical execution.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Fine and Studio Arts, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Fine and Studio Arts at Newcastle University