UrszulaK. 🇺🇦 🇦🇫 🇵🇸 STOP the GENOCIDE in Gaza🍉 @playwright1234.bsky.social Polish playwright, plays:
SPONGES-semifinal
of TitchfieldFestivalTheatreNew Playwriting Competition/
FARMER-Fresh Fest 2025/
MY SWEET DIEGO-R&D Microgrant Award Liberty Festival 2025/
FreePalestine🍉
FreeSudan,Congo,Afghanistan
FreeUkraine
FreeAllOppressed
Annie Rigby @annierigby.bsky.social Hope. Theatre. Darts. Music.
Artistic Director of Unfolding Theatre
Lives in the North East.
@unfoldingtheatre.bsky.social
Kate Martinez @keitomartinez.bsky.social Mum, wife, dog lover and book dragon (store more than I get through 🤣) 💗
Love theatre, heritage, nature and learning 🎭🌴
From Liverpool ❤️
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Beady @beady999.bsky.social Born in ‘48 and living in the UK. Writes #SF and urban fantasy. Tries to play the clarinet. Volunteers at @thelowtherpavilion.bsky.social
Atheist MPhil (astronomy)
No DMs unless literary/theatre based
🔨I block crypto and forex
🔨I block nsfw approaches
Leanna Benjamin @therealleanna.bsky.social Writer, performer, blogger and an activist.
Michael Mitchell @michaelmitchell.bsky.social I'm running for City Council in Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth. https://toronto-danforth.ca
Quick, what’s the longest word you can find —>
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelmitchell.bsky.social/post/3ml3ws4myq22u
Ash Cox @ashtronomy.co.uk ℹ️ Account archived ℹ️
Disabled Artivist, Creative Access Producer and Consultant. Trustee at 20 Stories High. https://www.ashtronomy.co.uk/ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🌚👩🚀🪩👑🌱🌠
Ellen @ellenbooth.bsky.social Freelance Arts & Festival Producer (she/her). Opinions are my own. Currently working with MAYK, Candoco Dance Company and artist Liz Crow of Roaring Girl Productions
Terri Jade Donovan @terrijadedonovan.bsky.social Disabled, Hard of Hearing and Neurodivergent Actor and Writer - Fantastic at Falling over and playing it straight
Mike @torontofringe.bsky.social me online 🇨🇦
Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social Writer for Performance. 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Plays: Red Bike, 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls.... Film: Fugitive Dreams. Artistic Director of New Play Development at Lortel Theater/NY. Editor at Contemporary Theatre Review/UK. Views mine.- Z @zoomuno.bsky.social @zoomuno.bsky.social
Mike Kaloski-Naylor @mikeykn.bsky.social
Anna Biggs @writebiggs.bsky.social Reader, writer, sleeper agent
Loves history, folklore & growing things
ME + expansion packs
ADCI network ♿️ | she/her
LL Lucy Cavendish Prize ‘24,
won: Greene Door ‘25, Curtis Brown Breakthrough ’24, Jericho Writers Mentorship ‘24, Novelry Octopus ‘23
Kerry Andrew @drkerryandrew.bsky.social Author & Musician (they/them)
3rd novel WE ARE TOGETHER BECAUSE @AtlanticBooks | You Are Wolf (folk)
| Edinburgh Short Story Award 2024 winner | 4 British Composer Awards | linktr.ee/kerry.andrew 🌈 🦊
Ruth Middleton @rubelles.bsky.social Yorkshire woman, LGBTQ + writer (poetry, life writing) and creative group facilitator.
Lived experience expert interested in disability, mental health, traumatic brain injury and life changing injury. Tennis fan, campaigner, reader and traveller.
Lucy | Open to work @lucyhtml.bsky.social Filmmaker
Made 'Tgirls Make Music', A Tight, Warm Hug' and 'Pronouns in Bio'
lucyrose.info
Fundraiser:
https://gofund.me/54b0c1c1
Sarah H @sazzi91.bsky.social creativity, baking👩🍳 tv 💻 nature 🌷 chronically ill; ME/CFS since 2002 🐌 🇪🇺 IG: @sazzi_crafts #MillionsMissing
Hazel McMichael @hazelmcmichael.bsky.social antidisciplinary arts researcher & educator, recovering academic, essay writer, reemerging poet, mad queer witch, currently Curating Visibility curatorial fellow at Charleston (views mine) www.hazelmcmichael.com
Anna Davidson @annadavidson.bsky.social Writing, editing, publishing.
Poetry as A. K. Davidson. Links:
https://linktr.ee/akdavidson
elo @elohopea.bsky.social Kind people are my kind of people.
One of the #millionsmissing #mecfs
Alle Grafiken bei Instagram: @francesha
Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
Nicole Joseph @storiesbynicole.bsky.social Writer & Theatre-Maker •✍️ residency at Brontë Parsonage Museum 24-25 •Mentor & dramaturg Tour the Writer Bradford •✍️ Sheffield Theatres Young Company production ‘24 •DYCP 23-24 •Recent directing- RSC & Graeae theatre •She/her
https://storiesbynicole.co.uk
Bree Hadley @breehadley.bsky.social Professor in Drama, School of Creative Arts, QUT. Advocating for our right to lead the narratives, media, policy, and research that impacts our lives. She/Her. https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/bree.hadley
Spymonkey @spymonkey98.bsky.social Bunch of clowns, making Theatre of the Funny since 1998.
https://linktr.ee/spymonkey98
Lindsay (she/her/hers) @spoonfuloflindsay.bsky.social chronic illness life & disability lit 📚🪴🌊🐕
honoring the hard & finding joy along the way
migraine | SF neuropathy | POTS | ME/CFS |
long COVID | MCAS | ambulatory ♿
Jenny Sherman @jennysrp.bsky.social Multi-media Producer, mystic, multi-potentialite, expat 🇺🇸🇬🇧
https://www.jennysrp.com/links
Aoife O'Connor @aoifepoconnor.bsky.social Poet and Producer based in Derby.
Founder of Salty/She Speaks and co-Director of Derby Poetry Festival. Trustee, Women's Football Fan, enjoy a convo about social-political themes, arts and theatre. Unapologetically Queer & LGBTQIA+.
Wanna be friends?
Lewis Ian Bray @lewisianbray.co.uk Rep: Jo Edwards
at @divergenttalentgroup
CARTOONOPOLIS at Fringe 2025
On sale now. 👇🏻👇🏻
https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/cartoonopolis
StarDust949 @stardust949.bsky.social Aspiring to write for stage & screen. Dyslexic ball of chaos. She/ her. #pwME #MECFS #POTS #BLM #TransRightsAreHumanRights. Twitter account: @StarDust949
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Together! 2012 CIC @together2012cic.bsky.social Together! 2012 CIC delivers a free year-round online programme of arts events and activities, led by Disabled artists with the support of the Lottery and Arts Council England.
Eleanor Buffam @eleanorbuffam.bsky.social Artist, musician, writer 😸
Based in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Member of Neuk Collective, ArtCan, and Edinburgh Printmakers
No genAI ever
www.eleanorbuffam.uk
Alexandra Whiteley @lexi-lexis.bsky.social Theatre director, spoonie, spooky, feminist, wearer of red lipstick.
Supported Artist and Bank Cohort '22 @crucibletheatre, @Graeae Beyond '24-5
Rep @cowleyknoxguy
Views my own. She/her
https://linktr.ee/lexilexis
Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social She / her. Views own.
idiot (fun kind), theatremaker, internationally acclaimed penguin.
Talent Development at Sheffield Theatres.
Cordelia Stevenson @cordeeeliaaaa.bsky.social 🌻 Theatre-maker, facilitator, producer, plonker
🕺🏻 Making seriously silly stuff with Silent Faces
🚨 Merseyside mentoring officer at Arts Emergency
www.cordeliastevenson.com www.silentfaces.uk
Hannah Stone @hannahlucystone.bsky.social Director, Dramaturg, Mum | Co AD @RebelSparksCIC | Directed Offie nominated #shewolves | Recently #TheTrials @nottmplayhouse. RTST award runner up 2024
Alice Brockway @alicebrockway.bsky.social Creative type and mental health researcher. Founder of Playing Sane. Lived Experience work with NSPA, Rethink Mental Illness, & GMMH. Part way through a never ending PhD. Generally interested.
Theatre of the Gentle Furies @gentlefuries.bsky.social We tell old stories in new ways. We take myths, pull them apart, and weave them back together for a contemporary audience. 🪶 GentleFuries.com
1623 theatre company @1623theatre.bsky.social Shaking, shaping and sharing creativity with communities and Shakespeare.
Musicians' Union (MU) @wearethemu.bsky.social The UK's only trade union for musicians
A community 36,500 strong
‼️ Urgent enquiry? Contact the MU at https://theMU.org/contact
🎨 Cover art by Malini Chakrabarty
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
The Stage @thestage.co.uk The Stage is the world’s oldest and best theatre publication 🗞️
BAPAM @ukbapam.bsky.social BAPAM (British Association for Performing Arts Medicine) is the UK medical charity for the performing arts.
www.bapam.org.uk
info@bapam.org.uk
Nick Hern Books @nickhernbooks.bsky.social Theatre publishers and performing rights agents - bringing you top drama by today’s most exciting writers, plus books to support your own work and career.
Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social World-renowned playwright and exotic dancer. http://www.danrebellato.co.uk
emer @emer.bsky.social writer, professional shakespeare opinion haver, shoegaze fan, film dyke. she/her. my book is called IRISH SHAKESPEARES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, & PERFORMANCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (out Oct). all my opinions are great actually x
Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social Associate professor, storyteller, author, Greek chorus wrangler. Also: tea, islands, debatable lands, long walks on cold beaches. "Impressively undaunted." https://www.stepheharrop.co.uk/
Dr. Jami Rogers @publicradionerd.bsky.social Author of "British Black and Asian Shakespeareans: Integrating Shakespeare, 1966-2018"
LAMDA trained; former PBS and "Masterpiece Theatre"
PhD in Shakespeare.
Nuts about public radio.
Proud West Virginian.
Lots of theatre and LiverpoolFC
Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social Academic & theatre kid| Canonical Misogyny out now from Edinburgh UP! | less funny half of @nashaxpodcast.bsky.social | she/her | 🇱🇧
Elaine McGirr @emmcgirr.bsky.social Eighteenth-century & theatre historian; cat & child wrangler; immigrant.
Pete Kirwan @drpetekirwan.bsky.social Performance, theatre reviewing, early modern drama, film watching, editing, cat wrangling, immigrating. General Editor at Shakespeare Bulletin; professing at Mary Baldwin Uni. He/him
David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social Teaches Drama at University of Birmingham. Scot. And unfeasibly tall.
Written about Beckett, UK theatre, popular music, Eno, Kraftwerk, Velvets, Talking Heads, and why gigs look the way they do.
Emma Cole @emmacole.bsky.social Classicist, dramaturg, and theatre historian. Senior Lecturer in Drama at UQ. Author of Postdramatic Tragedies (2019) & Punchdrunk on the Classics (2024). Currently translating Euripides' final trilogy. She/her.
EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social I work with archives + bodies + technology. Professor of Performance and Technology; Head of Digital Research; Co-Director, Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ). Also Moving Data. www.kateelswit.org
Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social Dragonboater, paddleboarder, Dartmoor walker, Aare-swimmer. Also editing Titus Andronicus and interested in all things Shakespeare, performance, theatre broadcasting, post-COVID-19 creative industries. Never able to see enough shows or read enough books.
Siân Adiseshiah @sadiseshiah.bsky.social Prof of Literature, Politics & Performance at Loughborough University. Head of English. Editor of ‘Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations’ @livUniPress. Contemporary theatre, age studies & utopianism.
Jonathan Pitches @profpitches.bsky.social Theatre Professor and eco critic. Author of Performing Mountains. Head of School of Performance and Cultural Industries at University of Leeds. European. Trying my hand at some poetry. Views my own.
Dr Kara McKechnie @drkmck.bsky.social Anglo-German dramaturg & academic:
Oper Leipzig, University of Leeds.
Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social Professor at Royal Holloway, London, with focus on performing arts, creative industries, skills development, access, & climate care. 🇨🇦 in UK for a long time now. Tikkun olam 🍉. She/her. Posting in personal capacity only.
Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social Scholar of race, politics and performance. https://linktr.ee/tomsix
Rachel Hann @rachelhann.bsky.social Associate Professor at Northumbria University | Studies cultures of scenography, climate crisis, & transness | AHRC PI for Trans Performance Now | Author: #BeyondScenography | Co-founder: Critical Costume | Loves cats & cosplay
rachelhann.com
Jen Parker-Starbuck @jenps.bsky.social Performance scholar and author of Cyborg Theatre. Writes about theatre, multimedia, animal studies and more!
Dee Heddon @deeheddon.bsky.social James Arnott Chair in Drama, Uni of Glasgow, walking, forests, live art. 🏳️🌈
@poppycorbett.bsky.social @poppycorbett.bsky.social Playwright. 🎭 The last Old Vic 12 cohort. Lecturer in Writing for Performance at RCSSD. 🖊 PhD in contemporary theatre of the real. 📚 Owned by a cat. 🐱 Boy Mum. 👶🏼 Wicked stepmother to two great humans. 🧙♀️
Jo Robinson @drjokrobinson.bsky.social In between leadership roles at Newcastle University right now. Also Professor of Theatre and Performance occasionally researching performance, place, community with a historiographical twist. Views are my own.
Caoimhe MMC @caoimhemmc.bsky.social Eurotrash. Dramacademic. Dystopian Panic. Mild Amusement.
Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social Prof of literature at University of Warwick. Medical humanities, age studies, modernism, Samuel Beckett. Middle age shaped by lockdown: chickens, cold swimming, over-excited gig-going.
David Coates @davidjcoates.bsky.social Cultural historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Researching theatre in the long nineteenth century and queer theatre histories. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Regular theatre, exhibition and museum visitor. Chocoholic 🍫
Chris Megson @chris-megson.bsky.social 🔹Academic in Drama/Theatre @ Royal Holloway University of London ➡️ https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/chris-megson
🔹Student of Analytical Psychology ➡️ https://www.thesap.org.uk/
🔹For 📸 & 📝 on London history ➡️ http://Instagram.com/chris.megson
Mark Taylor-Batty @cupofassam.bsky.social I’m a father, not a dancer. Emeritus Professor. Exploring retirement. Saltaire-Burgher. Translator of Artaud. UCU NEC and USS advisory board member.
Katerina Paramana @katerinaparamana.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Artist-Scholar, Author of Contemporary Performance and Political Economy, Editor of Pol Econ & the Arts at Lateral; katerinaparamana.com
Dr Sue Healy @suehealy.bsky.social Irish writer in London: screen/stage/radio/prose. University Lecturer. Literary manager @Finborough Theatre. Rep:
@jasminepilgrem @LisaRichardsUK, London, W6. Suehealy.org
Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social theatre, music, & the like
university of exeter
profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/21961-adrian-curtin
Sarah McCourt @sarahmccourt.bsky.social Academic, Producer, Director, Actor, Theatre & Film Maker
Trish Reid @trishreid.bsky.social Professor in Theatre and Performance, Head of School, musician, mum, book-lover. She/Her. Trans-inclusive feminist. All opinions my own.
Kurt Taroff @kurdtdt.bsky.social Head of the School of Arts, English and Languages and Reader in Drama at Queen’s University Belfast. Irrationally obsessed with Michigan Football.
Helen Nicholson @helennicholson1.bsky.social Professor with a cat. Researching theatre and community: https://localtheatres.wordpress.com/
Views all mine and surprisingly superficial.
Mark Robson @markrobsoninfo.bsky.social Arriving here but gently.
Martin Welton @martwelton.bsky.social Professor of Theatre and other things
QMUL
Alison Jeffers @alisonjeffers.bsky.social Drama and theatre academic. Crafter and maker.
Sam Haddow @samhaddow.bsky.social Havering. Skittish. Hackled.
Writer and academic. End-of-the-world storytelling, children’s eco-fiction, performance and political violence.
Grant Tyler Peterson @grantpeterson.bsky.social Academic/educator in theatre, performance, & LGBTQ+ studies, post-cancer patient/volunteer, and father to two.
Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social Doctor of Theatre, Metamodernism and Millennials / Very proud dad / Wannabe distance runner (he/him)
Metamodern Theatre📙out now
Sufjan Stevens’ Metamodern Music📘 out Feb ‘26
Performance & Postdigital Extremism 📗 out soon
https://linktr.ee/miserchristmas
Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social Producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; expect broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art
Images: Magic Rays of Light / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Dr Eleanor Lowe @loweee.bsky.social Associate professor; early modern drama, material culture; music, theatre, cats, the outdoors; twin mum. Views my own. She/her. #BLM #lgbtq+ 🌈 #MHmatters
Dr Lise Uytterhoeven @liseuytterhoeven.bsky.social Director of Dance Studies at The Place, London Contemporary Dance School.
Dance, arts, higher education, research & creative health
She/her
Mercury Theatre Colchester @mercurytheatre.bsky.social The Mercury Theatre is the most active professional producing theatre in East Anglia staging drama, musicals, comedy and music. 🎭
Thame Theatre (Oxfordshire, UK) @thametheatre.bsky.social Intimate #theatre #venue in #Thame #Oxfordshire hosts #drama, #livemusic, #opera, #jazz, #Shakespeare, #panto, #amdram etc. Also available to #hire for your event. Membership and social activities too.
Queen's Theatre Hornchurch @queenstheatreh.bsky.social Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch (QTH) is the producing theatre serving Outer East London & South Essex UK, with a catchment area of 1 million+ people. As a community hub, over 220,000 people enjoy the programme each year.
Cygnet Theatre @cygnettheatreuk.bsky.social 🎭 A small independent theatre and art centre based in Exeter, Devon, UK.
www.cygnettheatre.co.uk
wegottickets.com/CygnetTheatre
Trinity Arts Centre, Gainsborough @trinityartscentre.bsky.social Gainsborough’s premier live music venue | www.trinityarts.co.uk
Upstairs at the Gatehouse @gatehouse.london Award-winning Off West End theatre in Highgate | London's top theatre (by altitude 🙃)
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