associate artists PROGRAMME

  • The 15 month  programme seeks to support two artists or companies based in the South West aged 18 and above. The successful candidates will be provided with a £5000 development fee, four performance opportunities at venues across the region, mentoring and tailored workshops delivered by Beyond Face Artistic Director/CEO Alix Harris and Artist Development Producer & Facilitator, Corinne Walker. Alongside this they will receive marketing, producing  and dramaturgical support. 


    Candidates will be people who have work that speaks to the global majority experience. It might be one which explores with urgency, current socio political themes or it might be a universal story told through a global majority lens. The overall aim is that the artists will have a rigorously-developed full-length version of a piece ready for the next step, whether that be further development, a tour or a full commission from a venue.


    Over the past five years, Beyond Face have hosted We are Here to Share scratch nights, offering a space for artists to test out a new idea for stage in front of a live audience. Throughout the process Beyond Face witnessed the challenges for early-mid career artists in taking scratch work into full-length shows. In response, Beyond Face designed the Artist Associate programme to help provide artists with the resources to invest in their work and bridge the gap between a seed commission and a full length developed piece.


    The Beyond Face Associate Artists, We are Here to Share Programme is supported by Theatre Royal Plymouth, MAST Mayflower Studios, Bristol Old Vic and Landmark Theatres. Each venue has contributed financially, supported with providing space and will host one of the We are Here to Share scratch nights. Artists will have a meeting with each venue's Talent Development department. This partnership is testament to the need for more arts organisations to work closely together to support local artists and foster a sense of community.

  • The Beyond Face Associate Artists, We are Here to Share Programme is supported by Theatre Royal Plymouth, MAST Mayflower Studios, Bristol Old Vic and Landmark Theatres. Each venue has contributed financially, supported with providing space and will host one of the We are Here to Share scratch nights. Artists will have a meeting with each venue's Talent Development department. This partnership is testament to the need for more arts organisations to work closely together to support local artists and foster a sense of community

“We are delighted to launch Beyond Face Associate Artists We are Here to Share Programme to support the development of these stories, creating new pieces of work, strengthening artists’ connections with Beyond Face and other South West venues and shaping their own individual creative practice. Over the number of years that we have been running our We are Here to Share events, it has become clear the wealth of exciting talent and important stories that exist in the region. This new initiative seeks to deepen this offer for artists and amplify the region.
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— Alix Harris, Artistic Director and CEO of Beyond Face

Meet the artists

  • lau batty

    Associate Artist

  • Rozelle Gemma

    Associate Artist

  • yoma smith

    Supported Artist

  • Zaid Al-Rikabi

    Supported Artist

ROZELLE

GEMMA

  • Rozelle Gemma is an Actor/Writer she moved to Bristol 3 years ago to become an actor and is originally from London

    Theatre Credits include: Hades in Orpheus and Eurydice at BOV, Hook & Mum in Wendy a Peter pan story at Egg Theatre Royal bath

    Screen Credits include: Esther in  Feature film The Draw, Sweetooth in feature film They might be monsters, and Cindy Fosh in BBC Fortune Favours the Fantabulous

    Commercial Credits include: Amazon Music & Sports Direct

    Rozelles written works are currently picking up laurels at festivals, her film Reflection, taken from a section of her autobiographical play ' No woman is and Island' has secured several wins, along with her comedy sketches.

    Rozelle lives by the mantra
    'Go out and get what you're worth'

  • No woman is an Island is a play based around my time on the TV show The Island with Bear Grylls which flashes back into different times of my life hitting on hard topics such as bullying addiction & homelessness.

lau

batty

  • I am a writer, director and creative facilitator who has been working in theatre and with communities for 4 years. 

  • My play is called How To Grieve Correctly in a Tuvaluan Household with Other Oceanic References. I began writing this play 2 years ago to deal with the unresolved grief that myself and my community were facing due to the loss of land, family and way of life. The play is a love letter to the Pasifika women in my life who shaped me, held me and strengthened me but it is also a call for solidarity between all occupied peoples.