Drew is the former [and founding] Artistic Director of PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE STRANRAER
Performance Collective Stranraer [PCS] is a development organisation created to nurture, promote and sustain rural theatre artists from Southwest Scotland – primarily Dumfries and Galloway, and South Ayrshire. These areas have little-to-no artistic training provision and we exist to bridge the gap between youth theatre and the professional performance industry – turning artistic outlets/hobbies into viable career-paths.
Founded in 2017, PCS is run by project producer Carolyn Yates and artistic director Drew Taylor-Wilson. PCS runs regular residential Artistic Development Labs [in collaboration with Wigtown Festival Company], we deliver an annual Mentoring Programme, we host masterclasses, workshops, theatre trips and create new theatre productions. We work regularly with regional partners Theatre Royal Dumfries, Ryan Centre Stranraer and our primary funder The Holywood Trust.
We have previously collaborated with the National Theatre of Scotland and YTAS/Chrysalis Festival, we have toured productions regionally and nationally, we have two current associate artists Sarah Rose Graber and Fraser Macleod and as part of our annual Mentoring
programme we work with 10 leading industry professionals.
We have a current young artist cohort of nearly thirty artists aged 18-30, all from a variety of background with a host of performance interests/skills.
