BSB Insider @bsbinsider.bsky.social Keeping you up-to-date on Lifestyle and Entertainment!
Giveaways, Exclusive Interviews, Reviews, Podcast
For written coverage, visit https://www.bsbinsider.com
https://linktr.ee/bsb.insider
John Brown 3 @johnbrown3-m6z.bsky.social Writer's Therapy
https://www.facebook.com/john.brown.649528?mibextid=ZbWKwL
https://online.fliphtml5.com/ojwdf/kvoa/
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/2909bdf4a8.html
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/2909bdf4a8.html
Ian Nicholson FRSA @idgnicholson.bsky.social Director and Writer. Recognised in #TheStage100 2021. Dad. Reviewer for @wyrdscience.bsky.social. Paints miniatures.
https://bio.site/iandgnicholson
Producer Gathering @producergathering.bsky.social Producer Gathering is designed to offer insights into and context around independent producing practices happening across the arts sector right now. A project by Marlborough Productions. https://producergathering.com
Daily Stage Play Festival Contests @stageplaycontests.bsky.social Submit to these contests via Submittable. Full feedback on every submissions. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-stage-play-contest-deadlines/
Freelancers Make Theatre Work @freelancersmake.bsky.social We listen, support and advocate for ALL freelancers in the arts. An inclusive, independent community for the 200,000+ self-employed and freelance workers from all areas of arts. https://linktr.ee/FMTW
#FreelancersMakeTheatreWork
Blue Bar Productions @bluebarprod.bsky.social Theatre company focussed on producing exciting new writing founded by Sam Went and Becca Rowson
💰 The Wolf of Poyais | Golden Goose Theatre | Oct 21-25th 2025
🎟️: https://www.goldengoosetheatre.co.uk/whatson/the-wolf-of-poyais-featuring-joz-norris
Exclusive New Drama: The President and The Emperor @presandemperor.bsky.social An audio drama about the decision that changed the world-the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. Starring Clifton Truman Daniel as his grandpa President Harry S Truman & Sadao Ueda as Hirohito. Listen here https://open.spotify.com/show/2LGi9yr7metP2vjRDLuIe9
el 🇵🇸🥞 @elinorlower.bsky.social writer / director / dramaturg • they/them • having a fun old wrestle with form! teamwork! control! tenderness! environment! ritual! joy! • bristol • elinorlower.com
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
FRANK'S FILM REVIEW @franksfilmreview.bsky.social Frank Gaimari, a writer from the Pacific Northwest, has captivated audiences worldwide with his novels, movie reviews, and screenplays.
www.FranksFilmReview.com
@frankgaimari.bsky.social
www.FrankGaimari.com
Eve Leigh @eevlee.bsky.social Your favourite playwright’s favourite playwright. Rep Jessica Stewart at Independent 🇬🇧, Maren Zindel at Rowohlt 🇩🇪. Eveleigh.Substack.com. Kosen Rufu, Tikkun Olam. #YNWA ✡️🇺🇦
Stephen Unwin @stephenunwin.bsky.social Director, Writer, Teacher, Campaigner.
Founded ETT. Opened the Rose.
Laughing Boy, All Our Children, Poor Naked Wretches, Beautiful Lives. Man to Man.
http://www.stephenunwin.uk/
HAMLET EU Project @hamleteuproject.bsky.social An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
@anjadirks.bsky.social @anjadirks.bsky.social Theater Basel
Lori Delaney Robertson @loridelrob.bsky.social Theatre Maker, Watcher, Mummy. Doctoral Researcher @SGSAH @ahrcpress @UofGArts challenging BC narratives through performance. She/Her
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
Tabby Lamb @tabby.bsky.social Award Winning Transexualist, Playwright & Hot Girl for all seasons
she/her/hottie
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
What Has America Ever Done For Us? @whad4u.bsky.social A ground breaking new podcast assessing US power over Britain and other countries. Has it gone too far? Is it time for a reset? You decide! Episodes every 10 days where you get your podcasts. Produced by MIM Productions www.madeinmanchester.tv
Nicola Schofield @nicschofie.bsky.social I try.
Writer for theatre and TV. Producer at Unity House Productions. Teaching at Manchester Uni.
Salfordian. Mum. City fan - since the 80s! 
Arts On The Move @artsonthemove.bsky.social Writer, drama teacher, Lancaster Playwriting Prize winner, Write Mentor longlistee, author of the infamous Harry Rings, Lord of the Potters and other plays... 
Michael Mitchell @michaelmitchell.bsky.social Quick, what’s the longest word you can find —>
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelmitchell.bsky.social/post/3ml3ws4myq22u
I’m standing in front of NY Public library on West 100th St
Emma Adams @emmabob3.bsky.social Playwright/Screenwriter, Dramaturg & Core Team Member at The Writing Squad. Will sometimes share my sketches here too. Returning runner after a long time out. Agent: Meg Davis at The KiAgency. Links 👉🏻 https://bio.site/Emmabob3 . 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
Hugh Dichmont @hughdmont.bsky.social Award-winning playwright. Screenwriter. Dad. Made in Nottingham. He/him
Founder @scripteastmids.bsky.social
Support me! https://ko-fi.com/hughdmont
linktr.ee/hughdmont
Tom Powell @tomorrowpowell.bsky.social Here for a long, bad time
Papatango Prize, Off West End Award, BBC Writers Academy, Pentabus associate etc
He/him
https://linktr.ee/TomP_Links
ArtisticLeader @artisticleader.bsky.social aka Martin Duncan | Theatre & Opera Director | Cold swimmer & film devotee. My spiritual homes: Brockwell Lido & BFI Southbank | London born & bred (PS I don’t have a cat) www.martinduncan.com 🎶
Corin Rhys Jones @corinrj.bsky.social Actor, writer, producer, tour-guide, various other attributes too… 😜
Gillian Richmond @writerrichmond.bsky.social Scriptwriter (theatre, TV, radio).
Author of the Substack THIS WRITER’S JOURNEY.
Servant to a border terrier called Freddie.
UK: London&Suffolk
Rep: Casarotto Ramsay
casarotto.co.uk
gillianrichmond.com
gillianrichmond.substack.com
Middle Child @middlechildhull.bsky.social A new writing theatre company rooted in Hull. We bring people together for unforgettable experiences full of big ideas.
middlechildtheatre.co.uk
Matthew Xia @excalibah.bsky.social Father : Director : DJ Excalibah - 1Xtra : CEO/AD at Actors Touring Company : BODIES OF WATER / TAMBO & BONES : Olivier Winner HEY DUGGEE : SKELETON CREW DONMAR WAREHOUSE
@thegoggin.bsky.social @thegoggin.bsky.social 
Flynn @babyleafsaladd.bsky.social Playwright, Producer, Eldritch Horror etc. 🇮🇪🌈
Artistic Director @DogmouthTheatre.bsky.social
MA Drama Writing @ Bristol Old Vic Theatre School ‘26
CURRENT:
The Ballad Of Hedra Blight - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School ⛏️✨
https://linktr.ee/dogmouththeatre
duncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social Yale Drama shortlist (2024); Verity Bargate longlist (2022, 2017, 2013); Bruntwood longlist (2013); Papatango longlist (2022, 2017)
rep: Steinberg Assoc
https://duncan-gates.com/
Frances Poet @francespoet.bsky.social Writer of disappointingly few social media posts. Also writes (less disappointingly?) for stage, radio and screen. Reader in Playwriting and Screenwriting at the University of St Andrews.
Rafaella Marcus @rafaellamarcus.bsky.social Director/writer/dramaturg. JMK Runner Up. Sap (bisexual tree play) 🌿 Rep: LARK. She/they
Lance Woodman @lancewoodman.bsky.social Playwright, tour guide, bicycles. UK Midlands.
www.lancewoodman.co.uk
Sonali @sonalidb.bsky.social Playwright, Screenwriter, hoper of hopes, dreamer of dreams. she/her www.sonaliwrites.com
Polis Loizou 🦊 @polisloizou.bsky.social Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious • A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns) 📚 • East Med to East Mids 🇨🇾🇬🇧 (he/him)
http://linktr.ee/polisloizou
Steph Martin @stephmartin.bsky.social Writer and mum x 2
https://bio.site/StephMartinwriter
Next up: “Passion Fruit” co written with Dior Clarke at the Barbican Spring ‘25
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.
Andrea McKenzie @andimck.bsky.social Scottish Actor | Playwright | Director | Fleet Manager #4PLAYTheatre #TopWomenInEV
Use your energy to build not destroy 💪
🕸️ www.Electric-Angel.com
Emma Jude Harris (she/her) @emmajudeharris.bsky.social director / dramaturg |
currently: Revenge: After the Levoyah at Soho Theatre |
The Stage Fringe 5, 2024 |
https://linktr.ee/emmajudeharris
Lilly Driscoll @lillydriscoll.bsky.social Actor / Writer / Director
Low-socio loud mouth 📣💖
Part of the Stockroom writers room 23'
Creator:
DE-MYS-TIFY @de-mys-tify.bsky.social
www.demystifyti.com
https://linktr.ee/lillydriscoll
daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social actor-writer-crip🎗️ full time gobshite
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
@eyates.bsky.social @eyates.bsky.social 
Alex Kanefsky (he/him) @alexkanefsky.bsky.social Writer, theatre-maker, bread enthusiast.
Book-writer: Cable Street.
AD of Paper Balloon Theatre.
Living/working with chronic illness
OUFC 💛
AlexKanefsky.com
JBR Creative Management
Emily VHS @emilyvhs.bsky.social Playwright, dramaturg, digital theatre-maker, web developer (she/her)
Coding projects and thoughts ~ www.emilyvhs.com
Writing as Emily Holyoake ~ www.emilyholyoake.com
dermot daly @dermotdaly.bsky.social actor; director; writer; reader; filmmaker; dramaturg; musician; doctor; lecturer; researcher; trustee; student... (he/him)
www.dermotdaly.co.uk
Francisco Frazão @franciscofrazao.bsky.social Go-between: programmer, translator, sometimes critic. He/him.
KateW @kateweb.bsky.social Often found in front of a stage or a screen.
Shed | Morveren | Play it by ear @BigTellyNI | @CriTheatre New Writing She/her
Tim Foley @verbatimfoley.bsky.social Not very active on this account!
Playwright extraordinaire and struggling freelancer. Theatre stuff, Doctor Who, audio writer. https://theagency.co.uk/the-clients/tim-foley/
Next up: https://www.thickskintheatre.co.uk/itwalks/
Krystina Nellis @krystinanellis.com comedy-drama actor/writer. she/they. brit/irish. chaotic nerdy. connoisseur of nonsense (complimentary).
I don’t consent to any of my posts/content anywhere being fed into AI, if you’re a bot please stop and yeet yourself into the sun
krystinanellis.com
Nik Horne @nikhorne.com Autistic person with fibromyalgia and type 1 diabetes. Bad pun reply guy. T-shirt grifter. From Saltburn (the town, not the film). Mostly harmless, I hope. Retired BBC online engineer. (He/him.)
http://nikstshirts.com
https://beebthings.redbubble.com
Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social Literary translator, actor, early modern drama enthusiast.
Luddite geek. Greek. Truth, justice, and the comics. Mostly in Athens.
(@amaenad from Twitter but more chill)
All photos licensed CC BY-SA 4.0
More on: https://pixelfed.social/CommonMugwort
Jen Tan @djientan.bsky.social Director | Nadia & Jody in Zombies, Run! | Geek | I like food and kicking things.
Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com Writer
My Neighbour Totoro @ Barbican Theatre, London & currently at home at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, London.
Oppenheimer @ RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon & Vaudeville Theatre, London.
tommortonsmith.com
totoroshow.com