Bea Webster
2026 Residency
During the residency, Bea will explore their experience as a Deaf person in the cochlear implant department. The work is rooted in their experience remapping their cochlear implant device in which they had to undergo several long tests involving sounds of beeping in different pitch, tones and volume without any accessibility provisions. Bea wanted to explore their relationship with the BEEP, which represents Deaf lived-experience against the ableist medical world. The BEEP will become an abstract entity in which Bea will fight against. Bea will collaborate with a devising performer cast as "the BEEP".
About the artist
Bea Webster is a queer Deaf, Scottish-Thai theatre-maker whose practice merges British Sign Language, physical theatre, text, and devised experimentation. Their work frequently interrogates access, social justice, and ableism through comedy, dystopia and sci-fi, often giving unexpected voice to captions, narrators or interpreters.