Marie writes and performs short fiction, monologues and scripts. She was recently selected to take part in Flying Solo, Contact Theatre’s annual festival to support and mentor solo performers. Her play, Get The Confidence, Get The Love was produced as part of Shortworks, also at the Contact Theatre. Marie has collaborated with the film and video making collective, L’Institute Zoom on their fantastical time adventure serial, Universal Ear. She continues to write a blog, Well Fan My Brow & Shut My Mouth, a comedic look at North West life.

Watch Marie Louise Cookson perform 'Sleep Scars' (see youtube link below).

The story is set in an unspecified place and time in the future where people are able to donate their healthy sleep after they have died. Levy, an insomniac, is given the opportunity to receive such a donation yet after his first good night’s sleep, he discovers scars on his body bearing traces of the sleep donor’s fatal wounds. Levy is then left with a choice: to have the sleep operation reversed and revert back to his insomniac existence or to bleed to death.

Website : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkDF9YmVH5E&list=UUv5U5Ahwj6Z68dkIFIRDlBQ&index=3