Introducing our two Theatre Maker Placements for 2025, Becca Robin Dunn and Emma Lynne Harley!
Becca and Emma have been on board with us since December, and will be working closely with the company until the end of March this year. During their time with us, they are shadowing the company, getting advice and mentoring, taking part in our workshops and trainings, contributing to the research & development phase for our new production Agamemnon, and shaping plans for their own work in the future.
Keep your eyes open for these two talented humans.
Becca Robin Dunn is an actor, writer and facilitator based in Glasgow, and co-artistic director of HISSYFIT Theatre. Her passion is in exploring ways to embody text and image through each person's own unique instrument and imagination. She read English and Theatre Studies at Warwick, trained in ensemble and physical theatre with Fourth Monkey, received her MA in Classical and Contemporary Text at the RCS, and holds a PGCert in Social Practice and Applied Art from QMU. She loves working with people and in communities to foster joyful creativity and this has led her to become Artistic Director of Theatre Studio, a part-time lecturer at the RCS and a Creative Director of Gaun Yersel’ workshops for professional actors.
With HISSYFIT, she and co-artistic director Claire Macallister make multi-disciplinary feminist work that aims to repopulate historical and contemporary narratives with female identifying voices, aesthetics and perspectives. They are currently working on their second show together, Jackals.
Emma Lynne Harley is a queer, working-class, multidisciplinary theatre maker, director, writer, performer and dramaturg who makes vibrant cross-genre work. They are a Lyceum L20 alum, co-producer of Play Full Theatre scratch nights, and Artistic Director of award-winning Siren Theatre Company. They perform regularly as a cabaret artist around Scotland. Emma’s work is often inspired by music, science fiction, and biography to platform undertold stories that hold audiences close. Emma is passionate about creating working environments and spaces for audiences where people feel supported and can process difficult topics in light-touch, engaging, and held ways.
Their work as a maker/performer includes TXT ME: Cyber Showcase and Online Protest (Siren Theatre and The Gaiety) a verbatim music-theatre show about women and femme’s safety; Walking on Eggshells (Lyceum Wonder Festival), an autobiographical cabaret-theatre show about living with Complex-PTSD; and last year was Sanctuary Queer Arts Artist Development resident/assistant director, where they began developing a BSL-integrated verbatim show celebrating bisexuality in Scotland. Their credits as a director/assistant include: For Better, For Worse by Jill Franklin, Jennie Lee: Tomorrow is a New Day by Matthew Knights; Lost in Music by Kim Moore and Nicholas Bone; Angela by Mark Ravenhill. As actor-singer/actor-musician, credits include: In the Light of Day (Magdalena Schamberger); The Last Days of Mankind (Leith Theatre and TheaterLabor).