Our names are Tashi and Jess although together we introduce ourselves as Glas(s) Performance. We make autobiographical theatre because we like meeting people and hearing stories. We hope that by sharing these stories with other people we might all learn a bit more about what it means to be human which might be a good thing.

We met as students at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2000. Jess had moved up to Glasgow from Penrith in the Lake District and Tashi from London. We soon realised that we had a lot of things in common and that we had a lot of questions we felt we’d like to address in theatre. Since this time have been creating autobiographical performance projects together – with communities and with individuals, with familes and neighbourhoods, about ourselves and about other people.

This photograph was taken during the rehearsal process for Hand Me Down (check it out in the performances section) we were in Moira’s kitchen. It took quite a long time to get a nice one as Jess hates getting her picture taken and Tashi had a to try lots of ways to make her look at the camera. We put it up here because we wanted to put a face to a name – we find that helps with everything.