Manipulate Arts & Cove Park International Visual Theatre Residency
Sarah Fielding
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 […]
Kate Bowen
Kate Bowen is a Glasgow based writer and producer. Her first full length play, Close Quarters, was put on by Stockroom (previously Out of Joint) in a co-production with Sheffield Theatres in 2018, directed by Kate Wasserberg; and was named by The Observer as one of their top ten theatre productions of that year. Her […]
Kenny Glenaan
Kenny Glenaan is a filmmaker based in Renfrewshire, working across fiction, documentary and theatre. He is currently finishing a PhD looking at the impact of militarism on the village of Garelochhead, out of which he created an ethnographic/autoethnographic documentary film entitled, The Village. Previous work includes the award-winning films: Gas Attack; Summer; Yasmin; Dirt Road […]
Alice Langley
Dr Alice Langley is a writer and theatremaker currently based in Glasgow, with expertise in horror, magical realism, fantasy, and speculative fiction, focusing on trauma, reproduction and women’s bodies, memory, and nightmares. She is working on her first play, an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of theatre and circus which uses magical realism to explore […]
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Saturday Studios – Fabricating Dreams
Tom Kelsey
Tom Kelsey is an actor and writer. He trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has performed in multiple West-End productions – including Olivier Award-Winning comedy ‘The Shark Is Broken’, Ivo Van Hove’s ground-breaking and devastating production of Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘A Little Life’ and most recently in Armando Iannucci’s stage adaptation of Kubrick’s […]
Max Alexander
Max Alexander also known as Play Radical is a play worker, artist, writer, educator and all round inclusive play advocate and enthusiast. Max’s work centres play and connection with a particular focus on autistic, neurodivergent and disabled experiences. Max has worked with children and young people (and occasionally adults) with a wide range of interests, needs […]
Ellie Griffiths
Ellie Griffiths is the Artistic Director and Co-CEO of Oily Cart, a pioneering UK theatre company specialising in sensory performances for babies, toddlers and children with multiple and complex barriers to access. In 2021 Ellie was awarded the Assitej International award for Artistic Excellence in the field of theatre for young audiences. In 2017 she […]
Spotlight on 25: Mohamed-Zain Dada
Beth Morton
Beth Morton is a critically acclaimed director, theatre-maker, and dramaturg. She was Artistic Director of Mull Theatre in 2020/21, and later Associate Director. She has worked most notably with Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Tron Theatre, Beacon Arts Centre, Scissor Kick, A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Royal Shakespeare Company, Manchester Royal Exchange, Theatre Royal Stratford […]