Jess Thorpe and Tashi Gore are Co-Artistic Directors of Junction 25.

Junction 25 is an award-winning performance company made up of young people aged between 11 and 18, based at the Tramway, Glasgow. It began in 2005 as an attempt to see young people represented in the contemporary performance world. Over the past ten years Junction 25 have presented their work at festivals and venues across the UK and Europe including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2011 with I Hope My Heart Goes First for which they won a Herald Angel Award and with ANOESIS in 2013 for which they were nominated for a Total Theatre award in the category of Innovation. In 2015 Junction 25 were awarded the prestigious CATS Whiskers award for an outstanding achievement in pioneering and high-quality work by young people.