Collective Home: Community Play
Tanya McLaughlin
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Saturday Studios – Building Home
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 […]