Fiona Moon
Fiona Moon is a socially engaged writer, theatre maker and community artist based in Glasgow. Her practice is highly eclectic and spans multiple forms and approaches, using words and text to interrogate the personal and the political. She explores themes of hope, illness, otherness and how we live with our own personal and collective histories. […]
Hannah Low & Nay Dhanak
Writer Hannah Low returns to Cove Park to collaborate with dramaturg Nay Dhanak. During their residency funded by Unlimited, they will develop their practice and explore the theatrical relationship between playwriting and spoken word. Hannah Low is a Chinese / Scottish writer, actor and dramaturg based in Edinburgh Scotland, who graduated in 2019 with a […]
New Commission for Manipulate Festival 2028 will develop at Cove Park
Pia Kalenius & Antti-Juhani Manninen
PETER – Dolphin, who lived in the house (Finland) is a puppet theatre piece telling the story of Peter, a dolphin captured from the ocean and brought to live in a house. Blending fact and imagination, the piece explores questions of captivity, human intervention and our relationship with other species. During the Cove Park Residency, […]
Jim Manganello & Valtteri Alanen
Tube Man (Scotland/Finland) is an epic history of man told through and among hundreds of inflatable tubes. Two men (what are they doing here? are they lost?) manipulate these tubes – ridiculous and vaguely phallic – with leaf blowers, hoovers, foot pumps and wind machines. The manipulation of the objects becomes subtle terrain for moments […]
Jenna Watt
Hindsight (Scotland) is a visceral new work of visual theatre combining puppetry, sound, and storytelling. Following the relationship between a deer stalker and a hind, Hindsight tells the story of the deer and their role in Scotland’s climate crisis mitigation and rural land politics whilst unearthing urgent questions of conservation, eco-feminism, and our relationship to […]
Alys Williams & Duncan MacLeod
Chu Chi Face (Scotland) is a wild romp of cogs, chaos & cabaret, an inarticulate cry for dress-up, defiance and hope in a world that’s horribly grown up. It explores pressing contemporary issues of political apathy, climate crisis and endemic loneliness through the ridiculous world of a couple living inside a clock that they cannot […]
Taylor Dyson
Taylor Dyson is an award winning performer and writer from Dundee. She awas the National Library of Scotland’s Scots Scriever 2025-2026. 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 Spoken Word. […]
Tibau Beirnaert & Laurens Aneca
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 […]
Céline Timmerman
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 […]
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 […]