Karen Seaward-Patel @karenpatel.bsky.social Associate Professor in Media at Birmingham City University
Dr Matt Horton @drmatthorton.bsky.social Evaluation - Research - Widening Participation - Fair Access - Higher Education - Schools
a black xborg • theory without practice ain't shit @rpaulint.bsky.social visiting fellow LSE Sociology · postdoc Aston University · editor at @philosopher1923.bsky.social · co-convenor @bsarace.bsky.social · he/him/they ·
✍🏾 carcerality, borders, forced displacement, coloniality
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Hannah Robbins (they/them) @drhannahrobbins.bsky.social Educator - Writer - Speaker - Consultant: Musical Theatre, Identity in Popular Culture, Black Studies & Music. Author: TOO DARN HOT: KISS ME, KATE AND THE MAKING AND REMAKING OF A BROADWAY MUSICAL (OUP, 2026)
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
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
dermot daly @dermotdaly.bsky.social actor; director; writer; reader; filmmaker; dramaturg; musician; doctor; lecturer; researcher; trustee; student... (he/him)
www.dermotdaly.co.uk
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 🍫
Hanna Korsberg @hannakorsberg.bsky.social teatteritieteen professori, FHT-osaston johtaja, Helsingin yliopisto, teatterihistoria, historiografia, taiteiden tutkimus, inspehtori Keskisuomalainen Osakunta, Opettajien Akatemia
https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/persons/hanna-korsberg
Elaine McGirr @emmcgirr.bsky.social Eighteenth-century & theatre historian; cat & child wrangler; immigrant. 
Dr Katie Hart @drkatiehart.bsky.social PhD in women's cultural leadership in Scotland. Experienced teacher and facilitator. Big fan of Jesus, books, pizza and spreadsheets.
Dr. Janet Werther (they/them) @jwerther.bsky.social Performing Arts Maker/Thinker/Educator
queer, nonbinary, AuDHD, parent-type person
pragmatic progressive
Buffalo, NY
Bronwyn T-T @bronwyntt.bsky.social 🎵Singer of songs, maker of musick 🏳️🌈
📚 PhD student, researcher: Cathedral Music, gender, queerness and the voice ✨
Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social Reader in Musical Theatre, Head of Doctoral Programmes at RCM, mum, data and digital humanities nerd, music ed advocate, tea drinker. About covers it
Evelyn O’Malley @evom.bsky.social theatre music env arts & hums, ma
https://cdf.exeter.ac.uk/drama/people/profile/index.php?username=eo230
Kate Holmes @katejholmes.bsky.social Open Access advocate; magpie-brained aerial academic; all about cultural studies/pop ents/circus/audiences/embodiment (she/her)
author: https://tinyurl.com/20sfemaerial
website: katejholmescom.wordpress.com
Richard Baker @rchrdbkr.bsky.social Composer based in Ceredigion, Wales, UK. Research Fellow @guildhallschool.bsky.social. Weithiau yn Gymraeg.
Profile photo: Claire Shovelton
Artist website: https://rchrdbkr.com/
Bethany Johnstone @bljohnstone.bsky.social Dance | Information Behaviours | Digital Humanities
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
Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social theatre, music, & the like
university of exeter
profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/21961-adrian-curtin
Kelsey Jacobson @kelseyljacobs.bsky.social Associate Professor @queensu | Author of Real-ish: Audiences, Feeling, and the Production of Realness in Contemporary Performance | Watches people watch things @centreforspectatorship
Photos by Jen Bernard
Lucy Weir @lucygweir.bsky.social Reader and Head of History of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social
📚 Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury - out now
📚 A Global History of Modern Dance - out 2026
linktr.ee/lucygweir
DrVikkiG (she/her) @drvikkig.bsky.social Engagement Librarian. Knows a bit about music halls. Reader. Working on being a writer. Northern accent. #manchester
Eli Massana @intersticis.bsky.social (Cat)Docent i investigadora en estudis teatrals i teories queer.
(Eng) Teacher and theatre and queer studies researcher.
Bi💙💜💗
Feminist for Trans Rights! 🏳️⚧️
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
-she/her -ella
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
Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social Asst Prof at Trinity College Dublin | Shakespeare and Performance Studies | Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association | Dramaturg | Views own.
@alishaibkar.bsky.social @alishaibkar.bsky.social 
Eleanor Field @eleanorfield.bsky.social (she/her)
Theatre designer, lecturer & parent.
PhD research exploring mess and scenographic processes.
Postgraduate rep for the Theatre & Performance Research Association.
www.eleanorfielddesign.com
Dr Katherine Graham @katherinegraham.bsky.social Performance academic, lighting designer, theatre maker- A @annaandes.bsky.social @annaandes.bsky.social Theatre Professor. Seeking deeper understanding of flawed humanity through theatre. Researching forgotten women playwrights.
Tali Rowland @talirowland.bsky.social Aerial artist and lighting designer.
Tiffany Murphy @tffnymrphy.bsky.social Performance maker, PhD researcher and doctoral tutor in Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Sussex.
Researching gendered trauma through a queer feminist lens of failure 🔍
tiffanymurphy.co.uk
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p532144-tiffany-murphy
Doug Eacho @dougeacho.bsky.social asst prof of theatre and performance studies at the national university of singapore. 🇺🇸/🇨🇦.
writing a book about automating theatre (surrealism, cybernetics, backstage tech, ai) in which i discover to much astonishment that it was capital all along.
Szabolcs Musca @szabolcsmusca.bsky.social Academic & cultural curator. Migrant theatre, socially engaged performance, cultural policy. Associate researcher at Bristol & Lisbon, director of Migrant Dramaturgies Network @newtidesp.bsky.social
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Szabolcs-Musca 
Careena Fenton @careenafenton.bsky.social #19centuryacademic, PHD candidate at University of Birmingham. Research interests #spiritualism, #performance #magic, #witches #gothic
Douglas Corzine @douglascorzine.bsky.social but some just long to be understood | arts journalist | theater critic | he/him | https://douglascorzine.com/
Chris Martin @thisiscmartin.bsky.social Reading and teaching literature, writing about popular entertainment, dreaming of dual citizenship. PhD @kutheatre MFA @uarktheatre
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.
S @deviousmeans.bsky.social York-based theatre maker/bricoleur/academic. Mystery Plays, medieval theatre, community performance. Makes a mess.
M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Traducción & Literatura Hispánica - CELL/Colmex
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
Mark Robson @markrobsoninfo.bsky.social Arriving here but gently.
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social
Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
30% off with code NYUP30
https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/
https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
Martha Simon @marthasimon13.bsky.social Director / dramaturg / facilitator
Mam
Sourdough baker
Hot sauce enthusiast
She / her 
Bobby Smith @bobbysmith86.bsky.social I’m a socially engaged art and theatre practitioner and associate professor of theatre at the University of Warwick and can also be found going dizzy at a potters wheel
JenniferG. @theabsentprofessor.bsky.social Writer, professor of English, lover of subterranean resistance movements, labor activism, travel, bookstores, kitchen table conversations, reproductive rights, and media that depicts middle-aged women as sexy and intellectual. All opinions mine alone.
Jonathan Owen Clark @jonathanoclark.bsky.social Welsh academic living in London. Professor of Aesthetics and Arts Practice at Trinity Laban. Interested in art, aesthetics and phenomenology. Personal page: http://trinitylaban.academia.edu/JonathanOwenClark
stephen hodge @stephenhodge.bsky.social variously artist | researcher | curator
emeritus [early jumper] professor in live art + spatial practices [exeter, uk]
https://stephenhodge.art/
Zoë Glen @zoeelglen.bsky.social researcher/actor-trainer/performance maker. researching neurodivergent perspectives on performer-training and performance-making.
Grumposaurus @nicolthegreat.bsky.social Digital dramaturg, post-pandemic digital theatre researcher, sci-fi writer, performer, director, and dramaturg. She/her. More sarcastic than anyone you'll meet.
Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social Academic. Poet. Creative sociologist. Queer non-binary trans man. Spoonie. Gentletran & a scholar. Also part of the Queer Disability Studies Network snails. 🐌🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@ullakallenbach.bsky.social @ullakallenbach.bsky.social 
Pedro de Senna @pedrodesenna.bsky.social Transdisciplinary practitioner
Theatre | Futures | Education
nic @nfarr.bsky.social PhD-ing trans scenography · lecturer in experimental performance and material cultures · scenographer & map enthusiast · they/he
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.
Dr Jessi Parrott (they/them) @messijessijumps.bsky.social Performer | Creative | Researcher | Consultant on equity, diversity, inclusion, employment in theatre/TV/arts/publishing. PhD in disability representation & casting from Uni of Warwick (2019). Disabled/ND/queer/trans https://linktr.ee/messijessijumps
Sinibaldo De Rosa @sinibaldo.bsky.social researcher in dance, performance & anthropology / movement dramaturgy & notation (kinetography laban) / co-chair of the society for dance research / massage therapist @greatbearmassage ~ available also in italian, turkish, french & spanish
TaPRA @tapra.bsky.social The official account of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), UK. Our next annual conference will be hosted at the University of Warwick, 27-29 August 2025.
Shane Boyle @shaneboyle.bsky.social fka brechtfast
Sydney L. Carr-Glenn, PhD @slcarr.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross| Political Scientist studying race, ethnicity, gender, political behavior, & news media | PhD: University of Michigan 〽️💙
Learn more about my work at: sydneylcarr.com!
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social Sociologist and cultural geographer. Research Fellow @ Uni of Manchester. Extended Reality (XR), privacy, wearable AI, platformisation, algorithmic management, affect, racialisation.
Steve Salaita @stevesalaita.bsky.social Essays at stevesalaita.com 
Thomas Paster @thomas77.bsky.social Associate Professor in Business and Public Policy at Roskilde University
https://thomaspaster.wordpress.com/
Serena Pattaro @serena-pattaro.bsky.social Research Fellow @University of Glasgow, Co-I & Leadership Group member @the Scottish Centre for Admin Data Research (SCADR), part of ADR UK. Formerly @Nuffield College, Oxford University. Social & health inequalities, labour market & welfare benefits.
Mark Banks @markoliverbanks.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Economy & Head of Cultural Industries, University of Glasgow
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/markbanks/
Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social Platforms & Society hosts critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization, examining their impacts on and embeddedness in economies, cultures, and institutions around the world.
Ulf R. Dahle @ulfdahle.bsky.social Specialist Director
Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
Personal posts, not employer’s views.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5909-7917
HeySig @sigtheday.bsky.social Librarian. Doodles for days. Opinions my own. They. 🦆
Katherine Mezzacappa @katmezzacappa.bsky.social Irish historical novelist living in Italy, published by Fairlight (Oxford), Histria (LV) and Stairwell (York). Writes too as Katie Hutton (Zaffre Books) and Kate Zarrelli (Romaunce). katherinemezzacappa.com
Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social ☮️ Hippie at heart ☮️
Children’s Rights & Childhood Studies Lecturer
UCL London
Research: Violence in the lives of marginalised children | Sociology | Homelessness | Poverty | Street Children | Youth Justice | Voice | Participation | Human Rights.
essali @essali.bsky.social Social Policy Specialist, Former UNICEF staff. Child protection Expert
@evronia.bsky.social @evronia.bsky.social 
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Sahar Aziz @saharazizlaw.bsky.social Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School | Author of “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom” | Director, Center for Security, Race and Rights (csrr.rutgers.edu) | Host, The Race and Rights Podcast | Views my own
Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social Academic. Writing/complaining mostly about women’s inequality in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia!
Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
Arang Keshavarzian @keshavarziana.bsky.social I teach and study Middle East politics, political economy, critical geography, Iranian history and politics. COYS 🐓🏆See 👉🏼 https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/arang-keshavarzian.html
and see my Linktree 👉🏼 https://linktr.ee/arang.keshavarzian
Marya Hannun @maryahannun.bsky.social Managing Editor of MERIP.
Post doctoral researcher at University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. 
Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social cultural historian of the Middle East 
Christopher Silver @christophersilver.bsky.social Historian, author of Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa (SUP, 2022), collector of records, associate professor of Jewish history and culture at McGill University, curator of gharamophone.com
Lisa Hajjar @lisahajjar.bsky.social Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo. 
Hesham Sallam @wazirelkif.bsky.social Stanford, Jadaliyya, among others. Opinions are mine
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Muriam Haleh Davis @muriamhalehdavis.bsky.social Historian of 🇩🇿
Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social My animal companions are Benji (cat) and Chester (dog)
omnia khalil أمنية خليل @omniakhalil.bsky.social Anthropology professor at the City College of New York
Lori Allen @loriall.bsky.social Author of A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (more interesting than it sounds)-academia escapee-writer-anthropologist-editor-mover of words. Dogless dog lover. Free Palestine. 
Deen Sharp @deensharp.bsky.social Geographer, guilty of thinking too much and not thinking at all.
www.deensharp.com
Ayça Alemdaroğlu @makrevis.bsky.social sakin sakin... Sociologist | Program on Turkey @ Stanford | MERIP Edcomm | PRIO Global Fellow | 🎾⛵️🚲
James Ketterer @jpketterer.bsky.social Director of Extension Programs & Professor of Practice, American University of Armenia | Diplomacy & Foreign Policy | International Development | Continuing Education | International Education | Middle East & North Africa | Jazz | Drummer | Baseball
Nabil Al-Tikriti @nabilal-tikriti.bsky.social