Taylor Dyson is an award winning performer and writer from Dundee. She also was the National Library of Scotland’s Scots Scriever 25/26. She co runs award winning, Elfie Picket Theatre staging new work across Scotland, including at A Play, A Pie and A Pint. She also recently won Scottish Book Trust’s New Writer’s Award for […]
Through a new partnership with deAuteurs, a Belgian authors’ rights management organisation that represents authors of performing arts, audio-visual, literary, and visual works, we are pleased to announce two-week residencies supporting artists developing new work in performance. Tibau Beirnaert and Laurens Aneca are theatre makers who met while studying drama at KASK in Ghent. Their collaboration […]
Through a new partnership with deAuteurs, a Belgian authors’ rights management organisation that represents authors of performing arts, audio-visual, literary, and visual works, we are pleased to announce two-week residencies supporting artists developing new work in performance. Céline Timmerman (1990) is a Belgian theatre maker, actress and screenwriter. Her artistic work moves between visual art […]
Tanya McLaughlin is an Edinburgh-based independent producer working across theatre, dance, circus and performance. Her practice focuses on supporting artists to develop ambitious new work, creating the partnerships, resources and space that allow ideas to evolve from early exploration through to production and presentation. She is particularly interested in collaborative processes and in supporting work […]
Emma Lewis-Jones (LJ) works across performance in various capacities; choreography, dance dramaturgy and facilitation. Her training in choreography and fine art underpin her creative practice today, which talks to the aesthetics of emergency, queering ritual and grief. Her current choreographic research is concerned with the limitations and failures of unison as a foundational dance modality, […]
Laurie Motherwell is a working-class, Glaswegian playwright. His work has been described as ‘absorbing’, ‘a gem’, ‘hilarious’ and ‘heartfelt’. In 2024, his play Roost was performed by A Play, Pie and a Pint. That year he was also a finalist for the Arts Foundation futures Award for Theatre Writing, and a member of the BBC […]
Esme Paul is a Glasgow-based artist and researcher. She is currently completing a practice-based PhD at the University of Glasgow in Theatre Studies and Psychology in which she investigates the representations of autistic experiences in contemporary theatre. Through her solo practice, she utilises non-narrative performance to interrogate longstanding cultural perceptions of autism as well as […]
Meg Russon is an actor, writer and composer from Somerset, based in London. She is currently developing an a cappella folk musical exploring the experience of growing up queer in rural spaces. This work has been described as ‘recall[ing] the work of artists such as Hildur Guðnadóttir, whilst the a cappella close harmonies have resonances […]
Sarah Fielding is a theatre director, dramaturg, and writer specialising in devised, interdisciplinary, and experimental performance. Her work spans theatre, circus, immersive experiences, and multimedia storytelling, often exploring innovative ways to engage audiences through physicality, technology, and non-traditional performance spaces. She has directed projects in varied and unconventional locations—cathedrals, car salesrooms, underground tunnels—embracing site-responsive and […]