Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social 
Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things" • dylan.difford@yougov.com
Katherine Mendelsohn @katherinemend.bsky.social Theatre dramaturg and stage-play translator (french-english). Mum. Word-lover. Reader.
She/her. 
Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social Knowledge Transfer Facilitator @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk. Bridging research & policy on place-based policy, social infrastructure, regional growth, & devolution. #PolicySky #AcademicSky
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social The National Museum Directors' Council represents the leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums.
Our Newsletter updates you on what's happening in museums and cultural policy in the UK.
https://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/
Mark Jagasia @markjagasia.bsky.social Playwright - Clarion, The Double Act - former hack.
Vanessa Thorpe @vanessathorpe.bsky.social The Observer’s arts and media correspondent 
Arcola Theatre @arcolatheatre.bsky.social Bold, original theatre in the heart of East London
www.arcolatheatre.com
https://linktr.ee/arcolatheatre?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=1aa21e59-7043-475b-ad38-219107f5d350
Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online The Wild West Begins Where Your Body Ends
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
Mark Robinson @thinkingpractice.bsky.social Writer, researcher, adviser, coach etc. cultural sector and intersections. Thinking Practice. / www.thinkingpractice.co.uk
Andrew Harrop @andrewharrop.bsky.social Director at Public First. Former Fabian Society General Secretary (2011-2024). Public policy of work, money, health & care.
https://cradle2grave.substack.com
Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
editor, Financial Times
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https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/robert-shrimsley/
Andy Smart @andysmart.bsky.social Getting educated about education, some publishing about publishing, a lot of reading about reading, co-founder of NISSEM.org, vice-president of IARTEM.org ... https://nissem.org/blog/adjusting-the-flag-and-baring-the-soul/2841/
Laura Pye @laura-culture.bsky.social CEO of National Museums Liverpool. Sit on the board of National Football Museum, Collections Trust, Dot Art. Tranmere Rovers and NFL fan
Suba Das @subadasdirects.bsky.social Surprisingly renowned theatre director, dramaturg & producer.
Child of immigrants, benefits-class, Geordie, Cambridge grad, sector leader, total homo. Yes, I’ve probably worked harder than you.
Proud Trustee of @TheatresTrust @SSF_UK @glasshouse_icm
Deborah Annetts @dannetts.bsky.social Chief Executive of the Independent Society of Musicians which supports musicians through its campaigns and services. Lawyer and campaigner. All views expressed are my own
Kate Arthurs @kate-arthurs.bsky.social Here for creative think-doers
Hospitality on a shoestring
https://www.instagram.com/bath_backpackers/
https://www.bathbackpackers.com/
Pool shark 🎱
David Jubb @davidjubb.bsky.social co-founder and co-director Citizens In Power launched 2023; independent director Sortition Foundation; http://davidjubb.blog; previously Battersea Arts Centre; #Devon #rewilding; he/him; #coys
Sarah Munro @sarahmunro.bsky.social Personal Account.
Director: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Co-chair Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN).
Board member: Scottish Futures Forum, Scottish Parliament.
Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Your national development agency for creativity and culture
• Awarding @dcmsgovuk & @tnluk funds
• Got a question? ☎️ artscouncil.org.uk/contact
@nclems.bsky.social @nclems.bsky.social CEO & Executive Director at Gate Theatre.
https://bsky.app/profile/gatetheatre.bsky.social
All nonsense of my own making.
Barry McStay @barrymcstay.bsky.social Actor, writer. 🏳️🌈🇮🇪
Spotlight: https://app.spotlight.com/9179-0165-3832
Enquiries: Maeve Bolger, The Agency (writing)
ruth mackenzie @ruthmackenzie.bsky.social Loves art, culture, creative industries, politics, climate-action, equity, feminism, sunsets, London, Paris, Adelaide, Arts Minister @dcms @ukgovernment
Marie Colangelo @mcolangelo.bsky.social External Affairs and Policy Officer @ Southbank Centre | Cultural Policy | Views my own
James Bird @birdrjames.bsky.social Stakeholder engagement at Arts Council England
Co-producer #Cantina3
Jack Haynes @jackjhaynes.bsky.social Chair at @campaignforthearts.org
Manages money at English National Ballet.
Previously: @theyardtheatre.bsky.social and Almeida Theatre.
Acrobalancer, theatre, film & modern art-lover. He/him.
Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social Independent research & policy recommendations for the UK's creative industries. Led by Newcastle University Business School with the RSA and funded by AHRC. https://pec.ac.uk/
Lisa Cagnacci @lisacagnacci.bsky.social Theatre dramaturg, director and producer
Ricky Dukes @rickydukes.bsky.social Theatre director, practitioner, teacher & artistic director (@lazarustheatre.bsky.social) from the West Midlands living in Greenwich, London.
Love big epic theatre, big tea drinker.
Jennifer Huygen @jennhuygen.bsky.social Head of Policy and Strategic Partnerships @ Community Leisure UK | Proud Carbon Literate citizen | Plant-based food ramblings on @morethanbroccoli.bsky.social
Centre for Cultural Value @valuingculture.bsky.social We collaborate and engage UK-wide to advance understanding of arts, culture, heritage and screen. Based at the University of Leeds.
Lyn Gardner @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social Journalist thinking out loud about theatre. Often at The Stage and Stagedoor. Author of novels for children. Contact@lyngardner.com 
@estellevw.bsky.social @estellevw.bsky.social 
Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social Writer, producer, actor. Ipswich
Genesis Foundation and Almeida Theatre playwright
New Wolsey Theatre associate
Channel4 Screenwriting '24
BBC Voices '24
Judges Award at Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022
Stage Debut Awards nominee 2024
Louis Emmitt-Stern @louisemmitt.bsky.social playwright/screenwriter
Berlin Associates
www.louisemmittstern.com
CILIP @cilip.bsky.social We are the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. Our purpose is to unite, support and empower information professionals across all sectors. cilip.org.uk
Laura Peatman @laurakpeatman.bsky.social Media Relations Manager for @russellgroup.bsky.social.
Outside of that, mostly found reading, sewing or at the theatre.
Kate McGrath @1katemcgrath.bsky.social Artistic Director & CEO, Fuel.
Trustee, Clore Leadership.
Board member, What Next? & ARTCRY.
She/her.
Lisa Cunningham @lisacunningham83.bsky.social Director of Communications and External Affairs at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Lover of the performing arts. Mother to two, wife to one, friend to many
Carl Woodward @mrcarlwoodward.bsky.social 💅🏽 https://linktr.ee/mrcarlwoodward
Alice Saville @alicesaville.bsky.social A surfeit of opinions. Theatre critic for The Independent. Words in Exeunt, FT, The Observer, Time Out & more. Commission me: alice.n.saville@gmail.com
Darren Henley @henleydarren.bsky.social CEO Arts Council England. New book ‘The Arts Dividend: How Investment in Culture Creates Happier Lives’ out 30th January. 
@nicktrench.bsky.social @nicktrench.bsky.social 
@davidnolden.bsky.social @davidnolden.bsky.social 
Brian Ferguson @brianjaffa.bsky.social Edinburgh-based arts and culture journalist.
Arts and Entertainment Journalist of the Year - 2026 Scottish Press Awards.
Any views expressed are mine alone.
www.heraldscotland.com
Ayesha Hazarika @ayeshahazarika.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, political nerd, after dinner speaker, occasionally funny - aka Baroness Hazarika of Coatbridge
@mrjamesgraham.bsky.social @mrjamesgraham.bsky.social 
Adam Dyster @adamdyster.bsky.social Comms & public affairs on culture, nature & more. Theatre-lover, mudlarker and rock-bottom bargain hunter. Views and bad puns all my own!
Katie Chambers @katiechambers87.bsky.social Reporter for @thestage.bsky.social 📑👩💻
@rosieluff.bsky.social @rosieluff.bsky.social 
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
Jono Read @jonoread.co.uk 📺 Social media manager | Technology reviewer
👶 Millennial dad | Engaged | Norfolk guy in Yorkshire
📧: jono.read@bbc.co.uk
Alistair Smith @smithalistair.bsky.social Editor of The Stage
Chair of Get into Theatre
Chris Stafford @chrisstafford.bsky.social Theatre Chief Exec.
Dominic Ponsford @dominicponsford.bsky.social I'm the editor in chief of Press Gazette. On here to find and share tidbits about the business of news. There's no business like news business. Journalism, media, publishing.
Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com Founded MoneySavingExpert, @moneyandmentalhealth.org, (ish) the Martin Lewis Money Show ITV & Martin Lewis Podcast
Tim Bano @timbano.bsky.social Arts journalist and audio producer. Read me in The Standard, Independent, FT, The Stage and other places. Listen on BBC Radio 4. Contact me at timbano.com
Niko Efstathiou @nikoefst.bsky.social Journalist & Author | Yale & Columbia alum | Editorial Director at REBORRN | Words at LiFO, Kathimerini, former Google News Lab Fellow and WHO Communications
Georgia Louise Luckhurst @georgialouluck.bsky.social poet and journalist//member of southbank centre's new poets collective//reporter @timeshighered.bsky.social
Kerry Radden @kerryradden.bsky.social Associate Director at Indigo, helping arts and culture organisations to thrive by putting audiences at their heart
Kevin Wilson PR @kevinwilsonpr.bsky.social KWPR is a boutique award-winning PR agency that punches big, 29 years at the heart of the West End http://kevinwilsonpublicrelations.co.uk insta: kevinwilsonpr
Full Fact @fullfact.org Full Fact is the UK's independent fact checking charity. We put reliable evidence at the heart of public debate so you can make sense of what matters.
www.fullfact.org
Hannah Cox @hannahcox.bsky.social Exec Dir. & Joint CEO Jacksons Lane | Prev NationalTheatre | Trustee TheatreRites | Cloreleadership Pulse 2020 | Mum 🙈 | Art*People*Change
Robert Khan @robertkhan1.bsky.social Playwright, chair of the new King’s Head theatre, public affairs director and former London Labour Cllr.
Lizzie Crump @lizziecrump.bsky.social likes coffee, culture and collective nouns.
personal account for thinking about public policy, arts, culture education (and also TV).
Paul Vale @paulev.bsky.social Theatre critic and feature writer. Also have a passion for painting, swimming and cocktails. Views my own.
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Imy Wyatt Corner @imywyattcorner.bsky.social Resident Assistant Director @ Kiln Theatre
https://www.imywyattcorner.com
James Swanton @jamescswanton.bsky.social Actor in Apartment 7A, Inside No. 9, Tarot, The First Omen, Lot No. 249, Stopmotion, DASHCAM, Host, Frankenstein's Creature. Much Dickens on stage. Spooky.
Creative Industries Council @cicuk.bsky.social A joint forum between the UK government & leading figures from the creative industries, driving forward progress on key areas of growth for the sector.
Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social Art from the Tate Collection.
Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
https://www.tate.org.uk/
Tonya Nelson @tonyanelson.bsky.social Culture Vulture. Executive Director, Enterprise & Innovation at Arts Council England. Trustee of National Gallery and Royal Collection Trust
Luke Burton @biblioluke.bsky.social Director, Libraries at Arts Council England. Data, emerging tech, literacies, reading for pleasure and the joy of libraries. ‘Libraries gave us power.’ Personal views only.
DCMS Answers @dcms-answers.bsky.social Bot account posting whenever the Department for Culture, Media and Sport answers or corrects an answer to a written parliamentary question. Monitored by librarians in the House of Commons Library 
Jack Dryden @jackdryden.uk I make theatre things happen | 🎭 Fringe Theatre Producer by night | 💼 Management Accountant for DCMS by day | All views my own, but feel free to borrow! | he/they
jackdryden.uk
Hilary Hall @hilaryhall.bsky.social Creativity and operations ✨working at DCMS on creative industries policy 🪇 Ex / always digital 💿
Megan Henson @meganhenson.bsky.social 🎭 Assistant theatrical talent agent
🎨 Part time artist and illustrator
🐱 Full time cat mum
Ben Walmsley @benwalmsley.bsky.social Dean of Cultural Engagement at University of Leeds; Associate Director Policy, Centre for Cultural Value; Advisor, DCMS. Interested in all things arts & cultural sector related
Grant Mason @grantmason.bsky.social Chief Executive PACE Theatre (http://www.pacetheatre.com @pacetheatre.com). Opening a new theatre for young people (http://www.exchangetheatre.org)
Maria Turley @mariaconyard.bsky.social Arts and creativity for children and young people. Mam. Teessider. Londoner. Spiritual Northumbrian. My opinions. She/her. Conyard & Turley
Ben Hewis @benhewis.bsky.social Theatre and wedding videographer
Josh Nawras @joshnawras.bsky.social Renovating buildings to build communities, to tell stories and make theatre.
Jack Dale-Dowd @jackdaledowd.bsky.social CEO at Contact | Manchester | Dogs | Arts | Terrible Films
🐶🏳️🌈👬 he/him
Adam Turns @adamturns.bsky.social Pit-yakker, red and white
Theatre, quiz, pubs and words
Royal Court
Robbie Butler @robbiebutlermilroy.bsky.social 🇮🇪in🏴
Lighting Designer for theatre.
www.robbiebutler.com
Expect a mix of work stuff, theatre, politics, and gym accountability. 👍
Beccy D'Souza @beccydsouza.bsky.social Activist, feminist, actor, creative producer & mum. Artist Development & studio programming at Nottingham Playhouse. Own views etc.
Also voice of Mary Shelley for @midnightpals.bsky.social
🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 none of us are free 'til all of us are free
Ben Jacobs @benjacobs55.bsky.social Lighting Designer
www.benjacobsdesign.com
Currently:
Oliver! (Gielgud Theatre)
1984 (Hackney Town Hall)
Rep: Michael Grandage Company
Robin Paley Yorke @robinpaleyyorke.bsky.social Visually Impaired North East Actor
Producer @seemiatheatre.bsky.social
Producer Fellow @ntsonline.bsky.social
📍Glasgow, Durham, London
He/Him🏳️🌈🇪🇺
https://www.spotlight.com/9573-8940-6953
https://www.robinpaleyyorke.com
ellen hartley @ellenhartley.bsky.social She/Her
Voice, text, accent - freelance theatre practitioner and creative @ The RSC / Shakespeare's Globe / Birmingham Rep.
Proud Brummie.
Dyslexic word lover.
Dyspraxic mover.
ADHD organiser.
Cis Intersectional feminist and ally. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🌻🍉
Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social dramaturg, awards judge, theatre critic/editor, director, occasional producer 🎭
teacher/tutor/lecturer/coach with a PhD👩🏻🎓
angry about white supremacist heteropatriarchal capitalism✊🏻
neurodivergent London-based immigrant🌎
own views
Joseph Sherlock @josephsherlock.bsky.social Artistic Director of Københavns Shakespeare Kompagni.
Multilingual theatre based in Copenhagen
Our theatre is The Deer and Rabbits
Decentered Media @decentered.co.uk Community-focussed communications and media - don't just complain about the faults of the system, learn, adapt and prepare for change! https://decentered.co.uk
David Brady @davidbrady83.bsky.social He / Him | Artistic Director @LandUTheatre | @ProforcaTheatre | Multi Offie-nominated Writer & Director | Rep @REDTalentMgt | Up Next: Volcano / At Last (2025)
Annie Rigby @annierigby.bsky.social Hope. Theatre. Darts. Music.
Artistic Director of Unfolding Theatre
Lives in the North East.
@unfoldingtheatre.bsky.social
Tom Bird @tomwbird.bsky.social CEO @SheffieldTheatres. Theatre producer, theatre manager, traveller, reader, football & cricket obsessive, northeasterner in Yorkshire.
Jonathan Meth @jonathanmeth.bsky.social Dramaturg. Lecturer. Network Director. Consultant.
The Fence | Goldsmiths
Terri Paddock @terripaddock.bsky.social Promoting UK #theatre since 1996. Queen of post-show Q&As. Founded MyTheatreMates, StageFaves, WhatsOnStage. Ex-novelist. Politics geek. Dog lover and owner of world's cutest cockapoo, Lottie.
Emma Tompkins @emmatompkins.bsky.social Designer, facilitator & writer. Society of British Theatre Designers committee. Made by Dyslexia. Neuroaesthetics nerd. She/Her
Emmatompkins.co.uk