Rachel O'Neill

Rachel O’Neill is a visual artist and a scenographer for contemporary-performance. As a graduate from Glasgow School of Art Rachel is interested in the relationship between objects, materials, space, time and bodies and how this complex language can form meaning and experiences within the context of performance. Rachel has a particular interest in the social value of art and through her practice devises and creates work for theatre spaces and other spaces including performance, site-specific work, public works and live events. Rachel is a long-term collaborator with Glas(s) Performance and has worked with other companies and solo artists such as National Theatre of Scotland, Woman’s Creative Company, Superfan, Nic Green, Peter McMaster, Michael-John McCarthy and Martin O’Connor. Rachel is also lecturer of performance aesthetics at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she teaches on the Contemporary Performance Practice programme.

Holly Worton

Holly Worton is a Glasgow based multidisciplinary theatre maker from Motherwell.  Her practice centres around socially engaged performance making and amplifying voices that deserve to be heard. She has vast experience working in justice settings and with young people. Community strength in her practice is something that is extremely important to her. She works most effectively when collaborating. She aims to make performance that makes people look at the world in a different way. She recognises that theatre is more than just a show.

Holly has collaborated with a range of people in her practice including working class women, her brother, young people all over Scotland, adults coming together to combat the loneliness epidemic and people in hospice care. Some of her previous works include Working Classes - made in collaboration with Yas Mawer funded by the Arts & Humanities Council as part of an exchange project with North Lanarkshire Council and Edinburgh University and Now What? - made and performed by Polmont Youth Theatre in 2023 with Glass Performance.

Holly began working for Glass Performance after graduating from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2021 and has collaborated with several different communities within HMPYOI Polmont to make original performances. She is currently an associate artist leading on Theatre Lab and assisting with Polmont Youth Theatre.

Margot Conde Arenas

Margot Conde Arenas is multidisciplinary performance maker, facilitator, and producer working in live performance, video art, and movement. From a Venezuelan, Welsh, and Colombian family, she was raised in Amsterdam, and has lived in Glasgow since 2019. Her arts practice focuses on amplifying silenced stories, and encountering, excavating, and transgressing memory in our bodies. Creating and collaborating in socially engaged contexts, her work delves into themes of decoloniality, migration and displacement, womanhood, and ancestry. She aims to seek out the unspoken, the unwritten and the forgotten.

Margot’s practice is inherently collaborating, working with people in prisons, young people, and with underrepresented communities to create joyful and empowering spaces for people to make their voices heard. She is passionate about the importance of storytelling to develop our collective understanding and questioning of the world, and embracing our imagination as a means of creating radical conversations and change.

Raedie Gaizely-Gardiner

Raedie Gaizely-Gardiner is a Glasgow-based artist, musician and facilitator whose practice explores how music, performance and creativity can benefit people, often working with marginalised communities and young people. He is interested in using music and theatre in social contexts in order to improve the lives of individuals, particularly in inclusive and community-based settings which is his dominant area of interest. His practice is rooted in co-creation and accessibility, with a focus on exploring storytelling through sound and performance.

Raedie currently works with Glass Performance as a Sound Designer and Facilitator at HMP & YOI Polmont, contributing sound design for devised theatre created in collaboration with young people. Alongside this, he is the Creative Assistant on the Polmont Community Radio programme, where he supports workshop delivery and is responsible for editing and producing the final radio broadcasts.

Raedie has also toured internationally as a performer with 21Common, appearing in The Ballad of the Apathetic Son and his Narcissistic Mother and In the Interests of Health and Safety Can Patrons Kindly Supervise Their Children at All Times, presented at the Edinburgh Fringe and festivals across Europe and Australasia. In 2022, he launched The Sounds of Life, a project exploring the use of music to enhance wellbeing in older adults and people living with dementia, in partnership with Glasgow’s Golden Generation.