INTRODUCING THE THEATRE-MAKERS SELECTED FOR TRAJECTORIES 2025
We’re delighted to announce the 6 artists joining us for this year’s Trajectories programme: Hannah McGregor, Harry Walker, Margot Conde Arenas, Molly McGrath, Robbie Hail and Taya Sian. Over a period of 7 weeks, these theatre-makers will work closely with Lead Artist Cora Bissett and a range of practitioners to experiment, collaborate with one another and develop a brand new performance on the leap up to a showcase event at Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh in April. Below you can hear a little from each of them and their practice.
HANNAH MCGREGOR
Hannah McGregor is a writer/theatre-maker from Glasgow, now a traitor based in Edinburgh. They like to explore identity in their work – queerness, nationality, gender identity, politics – and the tensions at the intersection of them all. They are passionate about pushing the boundaries of queer and trans performance, and building community through laughter, music and all things joyful. They are inspired by magic, nature and solidarity, and believe there’s a bit of each to be found everywhere.
HARRY WALKER
Harry is a 25-year-old theatre-maker and poet from Southern England, currently based in East Dunbartonshire. Taking an experimental approach to theatre-making, his practice is heavily influenced by participatory and postdramatic styles of performance. His work explores themes of late-stage capitalism, the crisis in democracy, climate breakdown, colonialism/neocolonialism, surveillance and the impact of technology. Harry’s play ‘if not this then that’ will debut at the Camden People’s Theatre’s SPRINTFEST in March 2025.
MARGOT CONDE ARENAS
Margot Conde Arenas is a Latinx performance maker, facilitator and producer working in multidisciplinary live performance, video art and movement. Her practice focuses on amplifying silenced stories, encountering and transgressing memory in our bodies, and embracing imagination as a means of creating radical conversations and change. Delving into themes of decoloniality, migration and displacement, womanhood and ancestry, she aims to seek out the unspoken, the unwritten and the forgotten.
MOLLY MCGRATH
Molly McGrath is an actor, writer and recent graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is passionate about telling stories that are bold in both style and content. Fiercely theatrical, she enjoys exciting the senses of an audience, creating deeply immersive spaces. Her work is focused on interrogating convention; finding the universal within the specific.
ROBBIE HAIL
Robbie Hail is an actor/musician. He is one of the co-founders of Fast Snail Productions. Robbie’s work focuses on themes such as regret, nostalgia and fear. His aim is to infuse music into his work and explore how different genres and rhythms can capture or change how a piece of work is perceived. He’s currently producing music which will feature in Fast Snail’s pilot episode of ‘The Flat’.
TAYA SIAN
Taya Sian is an actor and writer from Glasgow. She is passionate about showcasing working class stories and her writing is heavily inspired by her experiences growing up as a young carer. She thinks it’s important to address topics we don’t usually see in the theatre. She hopes that being able to see her own story on stage will help others who had similar upbringings feel less alone.
We look forward to seeing what this cohort creates in the coming weeks and we’ll be sharing sneak peeks into their process as the development sessions begin over on our social media channels – so follow us if you haven’t already. Don’t forget you will get a chance to see the finished works at the Trajectories showcase event, coming this April. Keep your eyes peeled for information released soon…
You can find out more about the Trajectories programme and what the artists will be up to each week on the project page.