Jess Thorpe is a theatre maker, lecturer in the Arts in Justice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and author based in Scotland. She is currently Associate Director at Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre and Co-Artistic Director of Glass Performance, an award-winning theater company that creates performance inspired by people and place. Jess’s research is around the power and possibility of creativity in prisons. In 2018, she was part of setting up the first ever youth theater in a Scottish prison, Polmont Youth Theatre.