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Kate McCoy
small performance adventures
United Kingdom
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Phone: +447786068462
Email: projects@
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Bio
Kate McCoy is the artistic director of small performance adventures – creating performances, workshops and events with people who have been affected by life! – currently working with people in recovery. She is a participatory performance maker and facilitator who has worked in prisons, universities and many other places for over twenty-five years. Currently small performance adventures are working with ten artists in recovery on a project which creates personalised rituals for audience members. This project will culminate in a participatory performance in 2023. In 2021, small performance adventures worked in partnership with ten arts and recovery organisations across the UK to create a film with participants in seven cities as an act of remembrance and respect to mark International Overdose Day – a project that has been growing since 2019. In 2020 “Terminal Uniqueness” – a project about improving our mental health collectively – took on a new life online with accompanying Facebook group with over 800 members internationally. “The Washing Up”, a participatory performance with songs devised by fifteen performers in addiction and mental health culminated in a national tour to Manchester, Liverpool and London in 2019. She was founder member and artistic director of The Men’s Room Manchester an arts and social care agency working with young men with experience of sex work, homelessness and the criminal justice system. Recent work includes UK lead artist for PORE on a European Project focussing on the arts in recovery, Brighton Festival/Brighton People’s Theatre’s artist in residence working with residents to deliver an exhibition “Random Acts of Neighbourliness” She teaches Applied Theatre at Manchester University, Central School of Speech and Drama and has worked in prisons in the UK and USA for over twenty-five years.