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Residents and Mentors

Meet the talented artists, designers, performers, and creators who make up the EMERGE community.

EMERGE residents are Bath Spa University graduates. RE-EMERGE offers creative residencies for the wider community. STEP-UP provides subsidised studio space for previous residents. MENTORS are experienced practitioners from the wider creative sectors. ALUMNI are former EMERGE residents who continue to be part of the community.

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Anna Ryan

Anna Ryan

PerformanceCOLLECTIVE MEMBER
Anna Ryan is a songwriting and performance coach living in Bath, Somerset. A seasoned vocalist, she’s been writing, re...

Singing
Mary Steadman

Mary Steadman

PerformanceEMERGE
Mary recently completed her practice-led PhD, examining the concepts of the Eerie and Hauntology in performance practice...

Performance
Matt Emeny

Matt Emeny

PerformanceMENTOR
Matthew Emeny is an award-winning Theatre-Maker, Creative Producer, and Film-Maker. He is the co-founder of The Producti...

Theatre and Live Events
Oliver Langdon and Caroline Garland

Oliver Langdon and Caroline Garland

PerformanceMENTOR
Olly & Caroline are co-directors & founders of Bath-based, Kilter Theatre. Kilter has been collaborating with local or...

Performance
Sam Hawkins

Sam Hawkins

PerformanceMENTOR
Sam Hawkins is the founder of The Jesters Comedy Club — Bath’s only full-time comedy venue. A quick-thinking comedian an...

Performance
Alex Duarte-Davies

Alex Duarte-Davies

PerformanceMENTOR
Alex Duarte-Davies is the Director of the theatre careers and EDI charity Get Into Theatre. Formerly Head of Community a...

Producer, Director, and Practitioner
Charlie Day

Charlie Day

PerformanceMENTOR

Theatre Maker and Actor
Megan Clarke

Megan Clarke

PerformanceEMERGE
Megan is a writer and director with a focus in turning the spotlight onto modern issues, through honest live theatre, sp...

Performance
Evie Wright

Evie Wright

PerformanceRE-EMERGE
Evie Wright is a poet, writer, performer and filmmaker from Bath. She is a 2025 graduate of the University of Birmingham...

Performance
Thomas Baxter

Thomas Baxter

PerformanceEMERGE
Thomas is an Actor/Writer, actively looking for work in the industry. He has also developed his own work, through his co...

Actor and Writer
Phoenix Dewberry

Phoenix Dewberry

PerformanceRE-EMERGE
Phoenix is a body neutral, sex positive photographer who explores representation of the subject’s identity in their work...

Performance
Hayden Betts

Hayden Betts

PerformanceRE-EMERGE
Hayden is a theatre maker based in Bath, focusing on writing and performance. Throughout his time at the Emerge residenc...

Performance
Ash Manganaro

Ash Manganaro

PerformanceEMERGE
Manganaro writes around themes of identity, bilingual experience, and everyday nuances (continuing to scorn the seagull ...

Writer, performer and zine enthusiast
Deborah Beale

Deborah Beale

PerformanceCOLLECTIVE MEMBER
Debbie is a storyteller who uses a wide variety of methods to engage her audience. A creative producer and theatre maker...

Creative producer, writer, director, puppeteer, poet
Shaunna Monks

Shaunna Monks

PerformanceCOLLECTIVE MEMBER
Shaunna Monks is a comedy writer and performer. Having graduated from her degree in BA (Hons) Comedy at Bath Spa Univers...

Comedy
Siri Bolin

Siri Bolin

PerformanceCOLLECTIVE MEMBER
Siri Bolin is an actor and theatre maker, originally from Sweden. She graduated from Bath Spa University in 2022 with a ...

Performing, devising, movement, writing, directing, singing
Ross Corbett

Ross Corbett

PerformanceEMERGE
Ross is a theatre maker based in Bath, and a current resident at EMERGE. He has a focus around comedy and clowning, and ...

Acting, devising, improvisation, comedy