BLACKWIRE⚡️ @blackwireco.bsky.social Theatre production company in Scotland⚡️
“A Scottish company to watch” ✏️
Manipulate Arts @manipulatearts.bsky.social We champion, develop and present animated film, puppetry and visual theatre in Scotland and internationally.
Producers of Manipulate Festival: 12 - 15 Feb 2025 🌙
linktr.ee/ManipulateArts
Sarah Brigham @sarahbrigham.bsky.social Originally from Hull, now residing in Derby. Artistic Director/CEO Derby Theatre. Not the views of anyone I work for. Lives with ACC. She/her
Derby Theatre @derbytheatre.bsky.social The UK's leading professional producing and learning theatre. Great shows made in Derby, with a focus on our community, developing talent and learning.
arnimf.lighting @arnimf.bsky.social Lighting and video designer UK midlands. #alpd Portfolio: www.arnimf.lighting #theatre #theater #lighting #lightingdesign 
Matt Coot @mattcoot.bsky.social Writer, performer, occasional mental health activist. Longlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award 2024.
Based in Cornwall.
linktr.ee/MattCoot
The Apocalypse Players @apocalypseplayers.bsky.social Multi-award-winning podcast of dice-driven cosmic horrors from Dom Allen, Joseph Chance, Danann McAleer and Dan Wheeler. All links: https://linktr.ee/apocalypseplayers
Greg Sinclair @gregsinclairartist.bsky.social Performance artist, composer, cellist, dancer, theatre maker
(he/they)
www.gregsinclair.net
Anna Derricourt @annaderri.bsky.social Exploring, positivity, no-dye, learning forever, books, theatre, outdoors, conversation.
Just trying to understand more.
Works at Scottish book trust / #ReadingSchools.
Gavin Inglis @gavininglis.bsky.social Writer. Spoken word guy. MC. Game creator and enthusiast. Into code, type, maps, music, magic and architecture. http://www.gavininglis.com/
Amy Glass @amyglass.bsky.social Scottish actor based in Edinburgh
https://app.spotlight.com/9814-6759-1417
Playwriting UK @playwritinguk.bsky.social Top resource for playwrights in the UK. Jobs, opportunities, competitions, prizes & more. Maintained by @thisalitaylor.bsky.social Join FB group: https://bit.ly/3TpKWeG
Braw Theatre 🏴 @brawtheatre.bsky.social Theatre news, review and interviews 🎭
BrawTheatre.com
Benjamin Partridge @benpartridge.bsky.social benjaminpartridge.com
Yesterday’s Print @yesterdaysprint.bsky.social A collection of old photographs, historic newspaper clippings and assorted excerpts highlighting the parallels of past and present. http://yesterdaysprint.tumblr.com
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
@debbiehannan.bsky.social @debbiehannan.bsky.social 
Independent Arts Projects (IAP) @iaponline.bsky.social Leith based arts organisation getting up to all sorts with great folk.
https://www.independentartsprojects.com
The Audio Story Company @audiostoryco.bsky.social Immersive Storytelling elevated through Sound, Music, Voice and Physical Performance.
“Venture Into The Extraordinary”
Fergus Craig @ferguscraig2.bsky.social Arts & culture publicist. Political Communication, politics & philosophy graduate. Son of the Rock living in Edinburgh.
Julie Tsang @jooliet.bsky.social Writes for stage and screen.
Rep: Berlin Associates
#BAFTAconnect
https://linktr.ee/JulieTsang
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
Tony Reekie @tonyreekie.bsky.social Theatre for 35 years, mainly for children and young people. Politics, sport and cultural things. Seasonal Mill Worker. East Lothian. Definitely football and walking football.
Catherine Wheels @cwheels.bsky.social Catherine Wheels are a performing arts company making work for and with children and young people. Based in East Lothian, touring across Scotland and beyond. www.catherinewheels.co.uk
@rosiekellagher.bsky.social @rosiekellagher.bsky.social Theatrical misanthrope and reluctant social media lurker: pessimistic, weak, amused, hypochondriac, flummoxed, sentimental, insomniac, delighted.
Views/snacks my own.
Kate Taylor @ktproducing.bsky.social Award-winning producer of music-led theatre. Based in Edinburgh. Made in Cumbria.
ktproducing.co.uk
balladlines.com
whenmountainsmeet.com
Mark Fisher @markffisher.bsky.social Guardian theatre critic and presenter of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast https://www.xtclimelight.com/ All kinds of stuff here: https://linktr.ee/markffisher
EPAD (Edinburgh Performing Arts Development) @epad.bsky.social EPAD is a support programme for professional independent performing arts companies and artists based in Edinburgh. Our three areas of focus are Support, Space and Networking. Find out more: epad.org.uk
Traverse Theatre @traversetheatre.bsky.social Championing stories and storytellers.
This account is monitored Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm.
Registered Scottish Charity (SC002368)
Zinnie Harris @zinnieh.bsky.social Playwright, theatre director, prof and mum.
Dan Collins @dancollinscomedy.bsky.social Music, Theatre and Comedy | A Mad Scientist
☝️🥸📢
https://www.linktr.ee/okdancollins
Tim Johns @timoncheese.bsky.social Producer, BBC Radio 2, Jeremy Vine.
News bloke. Audio nerd. Cynic.
Prone to occasional camping.
Fergus Morgan @fergusmorgan.bsky.social Theatre journalist and critic. Scotland correspondent for The Stage. Words in FT, Standard, Scotsman and elsewhere. The Crush Bar on Substack: thecrushbar.substack.com
Jupiter Theatre @theatrejupiter.com Theatre that explores. Creating new works of Canadian Theatre.
https://linktr.ee/jupitertheatre
Pilot Theatre @pilottheatre.bsky.social National & international touring theatre company creating unforgettable theatre for younger audiences.
Robbie Gordon @robbiegordon.bsky.social Theatre Maker and Co-Artistic Director of Wonder Fools.
Stef Smith @stefsmith.bsky.social Screen and stage writer.
New here, hope it's nice.
Morna Young @mornayoung.bsky.social Playwright and screenwriter. Resident writer Traverse. Rep: Casarotto.
Chronic Insanity @chronicinsanity.bsky.social Award winning UK theatre company // everything theatrical, digital, gig, immersive, and interactive // Staging 12 shows in 12 months
Matthew Short @dramaturgle.bsky.social Scottish based dramaturg. Writes and directs on the side (primarily in Sweden). Give me regional theatre any day. ✌🏼
www.matthewsdramaturgy.com
Alex Istudor @alexistudor.bsky.social FRESH START ON BLUESKY 🙃🤷♂️
Romanian-born theatre director | London based | @migrantstheatre ⭐️Trying really hard to ‘infect the theatre in the U.K.’ with radical ‘European’ stagings⭐️
Tron Theatre @trontheatre.bsky.social Home of Tron Theatre Company, producing and presenting outstanding contemporary theatrical work that entertains, inspires and empowers.
Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social Recently retired senior lecturer in English at the University of Bordeaux, France. 19th C. Scottish literature, RL Stevenson, travel literature, afterlives, literary tourism. Occasional French-English conference interpreter.
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social Energy Infrastructures & C19 Periodical Press at Uni Bremen | Scottish Literature, EnvHums | she/her
Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.
Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social ‘Curious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland’. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London)
Histories of Enlightenment Travel
https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Founded 1969. News & highlights from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/
#arts #humanities #socialscience #academicsky
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Samuel Tongue @samueltongue.bsky.social Poet, Editor (samueltongue.com) and Co-Director of Kalewater Cottage Creative Retreat kalewatercottage.co.uk
Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Catriona Weiser @catrionahenderson.bsky.social PhD student in literature at the University of Vienna. Research focus - metamodernism, the historical novel, Scottish literature. Optimistic (mostly) and easily amused. 
Islay Book Festival @islaybookfest.bsky.social We are an annual autumn book festival on Scotland's whisky isle. Next festival taking place 27th - 30th August 2026. 📚
Maike Dinger @maydinger.bsky.social Nationalism, EU politics, culture & identities, feminism & Pol Comms | PhD in #indyref, #Scottish media, politics & literature | PDRA @BournemouthUni #AcademicSky
Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social 'The Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies', Leverhulme Trust-funded project at University of Glasgow
PI Prof Rhona Brown.
Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social Mammal. Actor, writer, editor, reader, sister, comedy scene survivor, older than you think. Virtual collector and junk-fiend. Dispenser of small ephemeral offerings against the prevailing horror.
Kate Ash-Irisarri @kateai.bsky.social Medievalist. Older Scots researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Memory, Identity, Emotion
Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese
PhD student of Scottish mountaineering history and culture.
He/Him
https://medium.com/@GreedyRunner
Anne @anotherdramakid.bsky.social Project coordinator and #firstgen PhD candidate researching Scottish crime fiction @ UniKasselversität. Chaotic drama kid for life, HEMA fencer, and occasional streamer (twitch.tv/anotherdramakid). | 🌈 she/they
Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London
Communications Officer - BARS
PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell
(she/her)
https://www.amywilcockson.com/
Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social Online literary journal in English, Gaelic, and Scots | glasgowreviewofbooks.com | Writing from Glasgow to the world
Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social romanticist&historian | PhD candidate at KU Leuven & Ghent University (Belgium) | Scottish&Irish women's writing & the writing of history
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social 🎓part time Post grad (MPhil Res) Scottish Literature, University Of Glasgow, looking at the work of Edwin Muir, specifically Poor Tom.
Powered by coffee ☕️
📚avid reader & self confessed Scottish Literature geek
👵Older than I look but not wiser 🤪
Henry Coles @pitest.bsky.social Fiction: Scottish Book Trust New Writer 2023. SCWBI Undiscovered Voices 2024. Repped by Lucy Juckes at @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
https://henrycoles.com
Tech: Made mutation testing popular - Java Champion
https://pitest.org https://www.arcmutate.com
Alex Calder @dralexjcalder.bsky.social ECR in Contemporary Lit | teaching at University of Cambridge | writing Ali Smith and the Politics of Connection (Edinburgh UP) | co-editor Ali Smith: Critical Essays (Routledge) | Membership Secretary @bacls.bsky.social | from Caithness, Highland; he/him
Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social Academic, fourth class.
Publishing Lecturer at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Author of books on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries, chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Often mediocre. He/Him
The Signet Library @signetlibrary.bsky.social The Signet Library in Edinburgh, the home of the WS Society, is a world class centre of knowledge and learning in law and the history and culture of Scotland.
Anna Pilz @apilz.bsky.social Researcher Developer at Edinburgh | Researching Irish & Scottish writing & environmental history 
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ucc.ie • Scottish Romanticism, the Novel, Reading / Book History • IASSL Membership Sec • AFHEA • She/her
Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social Edinburgh Literature Prof. Scottish writing, spy novels, cocktails, music.
Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social researcher, writer, literary historian 📖 early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻
https://bio.site/roslynpotter
Pernille Strande-Sørensen @spstrande.bsky.social 18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Folklore, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. MS.
Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.online
Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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Elaine Whiteford @elainewhiteford.bsky.social Author of Scottish historical novels, The Rescue Sisters and The Asylum Women. Also underwater photographer. Mainly on Instagram. https://www.elainewhiteford.com
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social Franco-Scot 🇫🇷🏴| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics
Hannah Grimshaw @hannahgrim02.bsky.social Scottish Literature PhD researcher👩🎓 | Robert Burns and the Environment 📚 | 23
Pumpkin Spiced Hannah 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Shetlander in Aberdeen. Writer, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own because who else's would they be? https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social Crime writer in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
Ruth Aylett @ruthaylett.bsky.social (she/her) Author, poet, socialist, feminist, Heriot-Watt emeritus professor with research in AI, social robotics/agents, affective computing
All views personal; likes/shares are not support
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.
Jenni Mason @jennimason.bsky.social Artistic Director at @pacetheatre.com
Joseph Sherlock @josephsherlock.bsky.social Artistic Director of Københavns Shakespeare Kompagni.
Multilingual theatre based in Copenhagen
Our theatre is The Deer and Rabbits
Calum Kelly @calum94.bsky.social He/him
Painfully left wing playwright
One half of @elfiepicket.bsky.social
FreedyBee @freedybee.bsky.social Actor, poet, mum. Gàidhlig, BSL learner, sea chanties.
Kathryn Cheetham (she/her) @kathryncheetham.bsky.social Collaborate. Design. Innovate. Building relationships that improve lives. Catalyst for change towards inclusive and innovative solutions for good, growth and sustainability. Currently Strategic Lead for Welfare and Employment at National Citizen’s Advice.
Cindy House @cindyhouse.bsky.social Author of Mother Noise
@mattmcbrier.bsky.social @mattmcbrier.bsky.social 
Anna Porubcansky @aporubka.bsky.social artist, theatre maker, teacher, co artistic director of company of wolves, mama, etc etc
Martin O'Connor @martocon.bsky.social Playwright | Poet | Performer | Participation
🏴 Scots and Gaelic
📍Glasgow
Woke Sandwich
www.martinoconnor.info
Kate Stafford @katestafford.bsky.social “I’m not a zoomer-arounder, like you … I’m a lay-arounder. I could lay around the whole day.”
Actor, writer, director based in Glasgow.
katestafford.co.uk
ChameleonTheatre.net
Aggression or rudeness = blocked. This is not Twitter.
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
Sleeping Warrior Theatre Co @sleepingwarriortc.bsky.social A Scottish theatre company making new theatre with music at its heart.
www.sleepingwarriortheatre.com