Jennifer Jackson

Jennifer is a British-Bolivian theatre-maker, movement director and actor based in Manchester. Her work interrogates how women and girls use their bodies, and the complexities of living between cultures in the UK. Her acclaimed work ENDURANCE is a sports spectacle between running and dance, exploring colonial legacies through the prism of the Bolivian warrior Bartolina Sisa, and modern day women who are out-performing men in ultra-marathons. ENDURANCE was presented at BAC and HOME in 2021 and 2023, and was shortlisted for the Theatertreffen Stueckmarkt (Berliner Festpiele, 2022). Her new work WRESTLELADSWRESTLE draws on her teenage judo career, interrogating the myth of empowerment with an ensemble of 30 women.

She has been supported by Teatro4Garoupas/Theaterhaus Mitte (Berlin), Barbican Open Lab (for WRESTLELADSWRESTLE), Bank Artist Sheffield Theatres (2022), Evolve Artist Oxford Playhouse (2020), Leverhulme Arts Scholarship (2019), and was selected for the 'Scene Change Residency 2023' (curated by BAC, HET Theater Festival, Nederlands Theater Festival). 

Awards: Jerwood New Work Award (2023); MGC Futures Award (2022); Jerwood Live Work Award (2021); Olivier Award for Best Production in an Affiliate Theatre (Baby Reindeer, 2020).

Theatre: Cowbois (RSC & Royal Court); Julius Caesar (RSC); I, JOAN, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare's Globe); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); KES (Bolton Octagon); The Mountaintop, Cuttin’ it, Wuthering Heights, Death of a Salesman, Queens of the Coal Age, Our Town (Royal Exchange Theatre); Baby Reindeer (Francesca Moody Productions/The Bush); Midnight Movie, Invisible Summer, Living Newspaper (Royal Court); Perspective (New Views National Theatre); Mountaintop UK Tour (Young Vic).

Television and Film: Hope (Clean Break), Hold Hold Fire (ICA, Olivia Plender), The Great (Hulu).

Events: Coventry Moves, Coventry City of Culture 2021 (Lead Choreographer).

Rosie Elnile 

Rosie is an award winning theatre designer who works between theatre, opera and live art. She likes using fragile, vulnerable materials and uncanny objects to make spaces with emotional atmospheres and subtleties. 

Her work is often overtly theatrical and she attempts to use stage design to think about the way space informs, creates and disrupts hegemony. 

Rosie has designed shows in theatres across the UK such as at The Globe, Royal Court, The Yard, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Manchester Royal Exchange as well as working in mainland  Europe. 

She has been an Associate Artist at the Gate Theatre and as part of her role she created Prayer which imagined what it would be like to plant a garden of weeds in the theatre and what it would mean to engage in a theatrical space with active care. 

In 2021 she received a Jerwood Arts Grant to explore scenography as the solo narrative tool in a process. 

Craig McCorquodale

Craig is a Glasgow-based artist working in experimental performance. He thinks of performance as a kind of combat sport — vivid, capricious, bound up in spectacle. This means a distinct belief that art allows people to transcend their everyday selves. That we can come into contact with the miraculous. 

His work exists to challenge what theatre can be and how far the stage can go in presenting real life. His enduring interest is collaborating with people who might never have done anything like this before, inviting unusual constituencies of people into the process and on to the stage. Craig names this as Social Sculpture: working with the experience people have of their own lives to create radical, vital and beautiful performance events.

In 2023, Craig premiered Walk With Me While I Remember You in Toronto – a one-to-one performance walk for city parks made with young people who have experienced the loss of a parent. Also in 2023, Craig culminated a residency with libraries commissioned by Inverclyde Culture Collective, with the presentation of Questions of Democracy. Playing with the relationship between language, power and public space, the work unfolded over a continuous 24-hour period as Craig installed 24 different pieces of text around Inverclyde – one each hour of the day. 

His projects in development are being supported by Battersea Arts Centre, FABRIC, Tramway, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts and VIERNULVIER. In 2023, Craig was awarded the Jerwood Arts New Work Fund and in 2021 he was a recipient of the Jerwood Arts Live Work Fund. He has previously been commissioned by Wunder der Prärie Festival at Zeitraumexit and Lyra and regularly works with National Theatre of Scotland.

He often collaborates with 21Common, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Quarantine and Hydra Arts and in these contexts has toured to Triennale Milano, VIERNULVIER, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Sydney Fringe, Taranaki Festival in New Zealand, Brighton Festival, Theater Neumarkt in Zürich, Freedom Festival Hull and Colchester Arts Centre.