The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social Author, journalist, and Guardian Blind Date superfan. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face. (he/him)
theguyliner.com
theguyliner.substack.com
Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social Dad. Science Teacher. Author of books including “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”, "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" and “How to Find a Rainbow”. Lots of free stuff and more about me at alomshaha.com
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
https://linktr.ee/garysecon
dan solomon @dansolomon.com senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). dogs love me cuz i’m crazy sniffable. he/him
Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social Campaigning on and off the water to end the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza and for freedom of movement for all Palestinians.
https://linktr.ee/freedomflotillacoalition 
Touretteshero @touretteshero.bsky.social 
Lorna Rees / Gobbledegook Theatre @lornarees.bsky.social #DisruptionAndJoy Artist/Director/Maker.
Earth science (rocks, clouds, coastlines) folk, history & culture.
Intersectional eco-feminist. High Priestess of Pop. Dress up a lot.
Co-Chair Outdoor Arts UK
Co-Founder Foxstrut
she/her
Emily Collins @emilycollins.bsky.social Theatre Director, Amateur Wildlife Photographer and Wobbly Crocheter.
Previously Resident Director on the UK and International Tour of SIX: The Musical.
Small, Northern and very silly.
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Beth Watson @bethwhatcanido.bsky.social www.queerdiary.org.uk
www.bechdeltheatre.com
www.bethwatson.co.uk
Cardboard Citizens @cardboardcitz.bsky.social Life-changing performing arts for people with and without experience of homelessness since 1991.
Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social We are a movement of Jews in the UK seeking to end our community's support for Israel's occupation and apartheid.
https://linktr.ee/naamod
@thegoggin.bsky.social @thegoggin.bsky.social 
Streetwise Opera @streetwiseopera.bsky.social We inspire and empower people experiencing homelessness as they rebuild their lives.
Info: https://streetwiseopera.org/
Donate https://justgiving.com/campaign/standwithstreetwise
Press: https://reytrombetta.bsky.social/
Emily Coleman @emcoleman.bsky.social Exec Producer at Spymonkey.
Parent, school Chair of Govs, tortoise owner.
Here as me, not for them
Listening & learning.
Georgia Dale @georgiadale.bsky.social Creative Hub Director at Unicorn Theatre
www.unicorntheatre.com/about/creative-hub
Northerner in Brighton
Brian Logan @mrbrianlogan.bsky.social Palace/DUFC fan. AD of A Play, a Pie and a Pint. Guardian comedy person. Tidier-up after children.
@benjaminpacey.bsky.social @benjaminpacey.bsky.social 
Pauline Mayers @emergentp.bsky.social Freelance performance artist, writer, director & Trustee at Improbable Theatre. Sometimes movement direction.
🤎 films
Leeds/London/UK
https://www.paulinemayers.com
Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social Official account of Palestine Solidarity Campaign. We campaign for peace & justice for Palestinians in support of international law & human rights & against all racism. RT≠endorsement
Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social Temporarily Embarrassed Communist.
Neilly from the YouTube channel The Leftist Cooks
Watch us here: https://youtube.com/@theleftistcooks
Follow Sarah: @saribo.bsky.social
Sometimes I write, video edit or compose music for other channels #speirgorm
Kate McGrath @1katemcgrath.bsky.social Artistic Director & CEO, Fuel.
Trustee, Clore Leadership.
Board member, What Next? & ARTCRY.
She/her.
Rachael Clerke / Art Business Ltd @rachaelclerke.bsky.social The artist formerly known as sole trader Rachael Clerke, CEO, Art Business Ltd.
rachaelclerke.com / artbusiness.ltd / modernqueers.com
Bristol UK
Border Crossings @bordercrossings.bsky.social Intercultural theatre company working out of Sligo and London
bordercrossings.ie
www.bordercrossings.org.uk
Tim Crouch @thistimcrouch.bsky.social Playwright • theatre maker • radio • tv • Brighton UK
Amber Massie-Blomfield @ambermb.bsky.social Arts and climate. Born at 344 ppm.
https://ambermassieblomfield.com/
Rich Thomas @richpthomas.bsky.social 🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 Dysgwr Cymraeg yn Llundain. Witty alt text makes my day
Deborah Pearson @performingquiet.substack.com Theatre and live art person. London based, Canadian born.
FKA shysecretagent on the platform whose name we dare not speak.
Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org We believe the arts make life better, and everyone should have opportunities to experience and take part in them. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵🏛️
https://www.campaignforthearts.org/join/
Mr Abbott @thegeometrician.bsky.social Likes to make things and make things happen in: dance/theatre/film/hip hop/games/writing/archives/gifs
🌊🌊🌊
Home of the #OpportunitiesAvalanche
https://www.thegeometrician.com/
#inkcypher #theendofdance
Improbable @improbable1.bsky.social World-renowned company of pioneering improvisers, makers & conversation facilitators. We make remarkable theatre.
Next: My Neighbour Totoro West End (from 8 March)
https://www.improbable.co.uk
D&D20 tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/devotedanddisgruntled
LUNG @lungtheatre.bsky.social Multi award winning, campaign-led arts charity. Resident Company at National Theatre. More of our work 👇
linktr.ee/lung_
Allegra @allegraintheatre.bsky.social Cultural Producer | currently full-time arts bureaucracy-ing & relationship managing | North East adoptee | plant mama | views my own
Previously producing for Curious Monkey, Roundhouse, Raindance Film Festival
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 
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
The Choir with No Name @choirwithnoname.bsky.social We’re a UK charity running choirs and building supportive communities involving people impacted by homelessness. We sing together, eat together and thrive together. Find out more about us at choirwithnoname.org
Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture.
https://www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved/
Ali Taylor @thisalitaylor.bsky.social Playwright. Cathy, Goth Weekend, Under My Skin, Fault Lines, Machine Gunners, A Little Neck, Overspill, Cotton Wool.
http://www.knighthallagency.com/client/ali-taylor
Kwami Odoom @kwamiodoom.bsky.social Actor / Comedian / Movement Director
Rajesh Thind @rajeshthind.bsky.social Filmmaker, writer, gospel choir-boy etc.
Links: https://linktr.ee/rajeshthind
Agent: www.sternwild.com/film-makers/rajesh-thind
Anna Jordan @annajordan.bsky.social Artist. she/her.
School for Social Entrepreneurs @the-sse.org We equip people to start, scale, and strengthen impactful organisations, with action-based and accessible courses, mentoring, and funding opportunities.
https://linktr.ee/SchSocEnt
Penny Babakhani @pennybabakhani.bsky.social 🇮🇷-born, 🇩🇪-bred, 🇬🇧-based | she/her | Producer
Nassy Konan @nassykonan.bsky.social All views are my own / Creative Producer 🎭 | interdisciplinary arts | work w/ artists, festivals and orgs | Traveller 🌏 | Foodie | Independently producing for Marlborough Productions and China Plate Theatre
https://producergathering.com
Sarah Punshon @spunshon.bsky.social Theatre director, Green Party Councillor, Quaker, Mum, but this is just me
www.sarahpunshon.co.uk for work things
Speech Bubbles CIO @speechbubblescio.bsky.social Drama for #Communication #Creativity #Confidence #Oracy
www.speechbubbles.org.uk
@vicglass.bsky.social @vicglass.bsky.social 
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social Building a vibrant Jewish Left in NY, fighting arm-in-arm with our neighbors for care not cops. Extremely pro-glitter. https://www.jfrej.org/
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Sarah Argent @sargent65.bsky.social Theatre maker - Early Years’ specialist. Mentor. Adoptee.
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
Emily Berry @no1emily.bsky.social Poet ⛲️
Paula Varjack @paulavarjack.bsky.social Artist working in performance , video & participation
Lorna French @lornafr.bsky.social Alfred Fagon Award 2016 & 2006. Pearson writer-in-residence. #revmix #WriteNowLive 2018 #15Heroines The Desert. Lover of Portlandia, Motherland, Parks and Rec and Blackish
Edward Einhorn @edwardeinhorn.bsky.social I am a playwright, director, and children's book author. Current project: The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein at Ed Fringe! www.edwardeinhorn.com, www.untitledtheater.com, www.rehearsalfortruth.org.
Amanda Fawcett @amandaforceit.bsky.social ✨Freelance Producer and Engagement Lead✨
Company Producer at Firebird Theatre ✨ Membership and Engagement Lead at LDE ✨she/her✨Views own, obv✨
Audrey Sheffield @audreysheff.bsky.social director: theatre, games.
rep: giles smart at united agents.
mama x3. she/her.
champion of people, stories, other worlds.
my work 👇🏼
www.audreysheffield.co.uk
Sarah Grochala @sarahgrochala.bsky.social
Writes. Writes about writing.
Theatre. Audio. Screen. Digital.
Winner 2024 Women's Prize for Playwriting
ISA Fast Track Fellow Spring 2026
4Screenwriting 2025
Semifinalist AFF 2024
Beccy Owen @beccyowen.bsky.social Songs•Sounds•Singing•Ceramics•Theatre•6 albums•Experimental Culture•SocialArtist•Neurodivergent•Free 🇵🇸🇨🇬🇸🇸 🇺🇦🇮🇷•she/her•RedLadderTheatre Trustee•
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
Alex Chisholm @amcchisholm.bsky.social Director
Dramaturg
Frazzled
Dr SoloBassSteve @solobasssteve.bsky.social 'Britain's most innovative bassist, no contest': Bass Guitar Mag. 🎯
Bass person. Bike person. Lymphoma-remission person. PhD in artist-audience communities and their impact on the music.
www.stevelawson.net
he/him/doctor
Mhari Robinson (she/her) @mhari79.bsky.social Independent arts Producer in Edinburgh. She/her. Exec Producer, Independent Arts Projects (IAP). From a long line of gorgeous, nervous, north-east wifies.
Stewart Pringle @stewartwpringle.bsky.social writer here and there, currently in residence at the RSC, rep: Jonathan Kinnersley @ The Agency. From the wilds of Northumberland. Recent tortoise acquirer. 
Lauren Mooney @mooneylwrites.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel SERVICE out now. Writing theatre for Kandinsky & audio for Big Finish. Freelance dramaturg, tortoise keeper, slow swimmer.
Rep: 📚 Veronique Baxter, DHA.
Rep: 🎭🎥📺 Imogen Sarre, Casarotto.
https://linktr.ee/lauren_mooney
Hannah Stone @hannahlucystone.bsky.social Director, Dramaturg, Mum | Co AD @RebelSparksCIC | Directed Offie nominated #shewolves | Recently #TheTrials @nottmplayhouse. RTST award runner up 2024
Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social Older artiste.
He/Him
https://www.markthomasinfo.co.uk
Mark Robinson @thinkingpractice.bsky.social Writer, researcher, adviser, coach etc. cultural sector and intersections. Thinking Practice. / www.thinkingpractice.co.uk
ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social journalist. gobshite. chaos merchant. tree obsessive. not necessarily in that order.
bensmoke.com
Thom Dibdin @thomdibdin.bsky.social Theatre critic of Edinburgh's stages. Owner and editor of All @alledintheatre.bsky.social. Cyclist. Wearer of loud shirts.
Born at 317.73 ppm.
Rod Dixon @reddixon57.bsky.social Off-grid living in D&G, ex Red Ladder AD, now landscape theatre-maker, LFC for life, Gobby Scouser
Company of Wolves @companyofwolves.org Scotland's leading laboratory theatre company
Performance / Training / Community
The Bacchae 2026 Tour - On Sale: https://companyofwolves.org/projects/the-bacchae
Katherine Mendelsohn @katherinemend.bsky.social Theatre dramaturg and stage-play translator (french-english). Mum. Word-lover. Reader.
She/her. 
Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social Playwright represented by Judy Daish at United Agents
Joyce McMillan @joycemcm.bsky.social Theatre critic, social and political columnist, campaigner for democracy and human rights, based in beautiful Edinburgh, Scotland.
Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social Actor • Writer • Voice Actor/Voice Over • Producer • Facilitator • Model • Poet •
Fight Performer •
Rose Bruford • FRSA •
Rep: 23 Talent Management
they / them • London
https://linktr.ee/ardenfitzroy
https://app.spotlight.com/7655-7837-9839
@laurachorton.bsky.social @laurachorton.bsky.social Writer and things. Host of Bad Sex Writing workshops & events. Plymouth based.
Repped by United Agents.
Rachel Barnett-Jones @rbarnettjones.bsky.social Writer, Educator, Believer in Kindness. More at www.rachelbarnett.co.uk 
alex swift @iamalexf.bsky.social 
Larry @thislarryhops.bsky.social writer 💫 actor 🐒 human-dog hybrid 🤸🏼
www.laurahopwood.com
Sarah Fox @sarahfoxcoach.bsky.social Do good and do well. Doesn’t have to be either/or. Mum, coach, coaching supervisor, podcaster, coast dweller.
Company Three @companythree.bsky.social Making transformative theatre with teenagers in North London; sharing our practice with the world.
linktr.ee/CompanyThree
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Husband, father and Mayor of the greatest city in the world. He/Him.
Paul Burgess @pdburgess.bsky.social Scenographer, theatre-maker, folk fiddler & community arts facilitator with a focus on green thinking & queerness. ESL content producer on the side. MSc student. he/him
Grace Smart @gracesmart.bsky.social Theatre Designer. Ceiling enthusiast. she/her.
www.gracesmart.com
Gregory Nash @gregory-nash.bsky.social Creative consultant, critical friend: gregory-nash.com