Short Attention Span Theatre is run by co-artistic directors Karen Barclay and Tom Brogan. 

Karen Barclay


Karen is a playwright, theatre producer and director. She was a finalist in the Tron Theatre’s Progressive Playwright competition. 


Her plays include Viota, Fairy Dog, Emily Entwistle, and Sauchiehall Soviet. 


Karen was one of the first playwrights mentored by Playwrights Studio Scotland. 

Tom Brogan

Tom is a writer and actor. His books We Made Them Angry Scotland at the World Cup Spain 1982, Scotland 101 An Introduction to the National Team and Going to the Wire: English Football's Finest Final Day Acts of Escapology can be found in Waterstones and at the usual online retailers. He is currently working on books about Kenny Dalglish and Al Pacino, due to be published in Autumn 2025. His plays include Odds and Sods, Cinderella Boys (both written with Fraser Campbell), Great Lengths, Good Times Never Seemed So Good, Bossnappers, The Roxy, and Some People. Tom has written for the Daily Record, When Saturday Comes, Nutmeg magazine and The Football Pink. As an actor Tom appeared in the pilot and first series of the BBC sketch comedy 'Limmy's Show'. He still gets people shouting "A round of drinks!" at him because of it.