In 2020 Coombe continues its unique partnership with Fuel Theatre – The Distillery. It provides a supportive environment to enable artists and producers to undertake focused periods of research and development in rural Devon. Artists in previous years have included Director Alan Lane (Slung Low), writer Keisha Thompson (Man in the Moon) and designer Börkur Jónsson (Vesturport) spending time togehter to work on a collaboration for a new show for children entitled Izzy, BOSSS and Fractal which creates a world where children have to work together to solve the problems we face today. Nick Makoha and Roy Alexander Weise also spent time at Coombe in development for The Dark, a vivid and moving story of the migration Nick made with his mother at the age of four.