Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social Trans theologian and connoisseur of fine heavy music
Co-Editor of Trans Life and the Catholic Church Today (T&T Clark, 2024)
Read my stuff: https://linktr.ee/nicoleteburbach
Can't access my DMs. Opinions are my own
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/
Beth Westbrook (she/her) @bethbwestbrook.bsky.social writer facilitator performer wee bit auDHD endo pisces
rep: Maddie Berlin Associates
top 35 bruntwood, write wild, bbc writers, name dropper
https://linktr.ee/bethbwestbrook
Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social Professor and author.
Sociolinguistics.
Unity Theatre @unitytheatre.bsky.social Liverpool's Creative Heart
https://www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/whats-on/
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
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Deirdre O’Halloran @deirdreohalloran.bsky.social Head of New Musical Theatre at Birmingham Hippodrome
DaDa @dadafest.bsky.social ⚡️We are a disability and Deaf arts organisation based in Liverpool | Creators of DaDaFest International, the UK’s longest running disability arts festival #DDFI
💥 https://www.dadafest.co.uk/
@chrisbushwrites.bsky.social @chrisbushwrites.bsky.social
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
David Ralf @davidralf.bsky.social CEO & Executive Director @theatredeli
Trustee @ Phosphoros Theatre
Anthony Simpson-Pike @anthonysimpsonpike.bsky.social Director and Dramaturg
Theatre503 @theatre503.bsky.social A launchpad for early career playwrights and the incredible freelance artists who bring their words to life.
https://theatre503.com/
The Yard Theatre @theyardtheatre.bsky.social A new Yard is here. A new season is here. On-sale now. Good god.
theyardtheatre.co.uk
(We’re here on Blue Sky, just only sometimes. Very active on Instagram instagram.com/theyardtheatre)
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
Cslmn @rapsacnomlas.bsky.social Writer, beauty queen, haver of takes. "A tiny man" - John Cleese
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now
Harry McDonald @harryrmcdonald.bsky.social It's a car wash, ladies and gentlemen.
Often casting monkey, sometimes playwright: Foam (Finborough), Autumn (Park/The North Wall)
mani @mwsiu.bsky.social Principal ballerina. Nephew to three gorgeous uncles
Lisa Carroll @lisa-carroll.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Playwright, comedian, screenwriter, author, tiny baby 🇮🇪
www.lisa-carroll.co.uk
Tim X Atack @timatack.bsky.social writer | composer | stuff | Bristol UK | campsite.bio/txa
FATHER ALBERTO AND THE FLYING GIRL Chatto & Windus June 26 / FOREST 404 on BBC Sounds / Bruntwood Prize Winner / Stories about love, ghosts, belonging and not, getting things wrong, and hope
Dr Lise Uytterhoeven @liseuytterhoeven.bsky.social Director of Dance Studies at The Place, London Contemporary Dance School.
Dance, arts, higher education, research & creative health
She/her
@poppycorbett.bsky.social @poppycorbett.bsky.social Playwright. 🎭 The last Old Vic 12 cohort. Lecturer in Writing for Performance at RCSSD. 🖊 PhD in contemporary theatre of the real. 📚 Owned by a cat. 🐱 Boy Mum. 👶🏼 Wicked stepmother to two great humans. 🧙♀️
Cristina Delgado-García @cdelgadogarcia.bsky.social Lecturer in Theatre & Performance at the University of Glasgow. Contemporary British/European playwriting, performance, dramaturgy and political theory. Next book is on Tim Crouch (MUP). Also: 🌿🚴🌈🎉 Orgullosament xarnega. Hola!
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.
David Jays @mrdavidjays.bsky.social Writer and editor on theatre, dance. Guardian, London Standard, Dance Gazette, Why Dance Matters podcast.
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
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
Elizabeth Newman @elizabethnewman.bsky.social Artistic Director - Sheffield Theatres.
Phil Shelley @philipshelley1.bsky.social screenwriting - run the Channel 4 screenwriting course in UK & Greenlight Screenwriting Lab in Ireland. Oh and Fulham FC (don't run that)
daneka etchells @danekaetch.bsky.social actor-writer-crip🎗️ full time gobshite
Chris Sonnex @csonnex.bsky.social AD & JCEO Cardboard Citizens. Founder LDN Ticket Bank. Words/ opinions are my own B4 award winning AD Bunker Theatre
Unrepped, DM me for work shiz
Lee Affen music (Affen Audio) @affenaudio.bsky.social Dad ❤️ Composer, sound designer for theatre, film and dance. Associate artist Box of Tricks theatre, Utopia Theatre. Currently on Death and the King’s Horseman and new film score for Climbing Mt Everest
Laura Howard @lauraamhoward.bsky.social Former Biologist | Current Scenographer | Future Dramaturg | Forever Nerd
🌱 | 💡 🎨 | 🎭 | 🇿🇼 | 🇬🇧 | 🏳️🌈 | 🌻
linktr.ee/lauraamhoward
Anna Jordan @annaruthjordan.bsky.social Without a Paddle. Writer. TV: Succession, One Day, Killing Eve, Becoming Elizabeth. Plays: Yen: MOTHER COURAGE (Globe) Pop Music, Freak.
Director / teacher / mum to Gryff - he’s much funnier than me.
@suzbelldramaturg.bsky.social @suzbelldramaturg.bsky.social
Sonali @sonalidb.bsky.social Playwright, Screenwriter, hoper of hopes, dreamer of dreams. she/her www.sonaliwrites.com
Alexandra Faye Braithwaite @afbsound.bsky.social Sound Designer + Composer. Current: #therealthing @oldvictheatre // #abigailsparty @stratfordeast // #giant @royalcourt // she/her 🏳️🌈
www.alexandrafayebraithwaite.com
Jennifer Jackson (Camargo) @jenoirrenoir.bsky.social Theatre-maker, performer, movement director & choreographer.
*WRESTLELADSWRESTLE: Sheffield Theatres, BAC, Cambridge Junction.
*ENDURANCE: Sheffield Theatres.
Supported: Barbican Openlab, Jerwood Arts (New Work/Live Work Award), ACE, Leverhulme Arts Sch.
Ned Glasier @nedglasier.com “A leading force for change for theatre and teenagers” #Stage100
Co-creation | Young People | Change-making | Facilitation | Consultancy
www.nedglasier.com
www.linkedin.com/in/nedglasier
@nathanpowell.bsky.social @nathanpowell.bsky.social
Box of Tricks @boxoftrickstheatre.bsky.social Manchester theatre company.
The play makers. Every story told. Every voice heard.
https://boxoftrickstheatre.co.uk
Michael John O’Neill @michaeljohnoneill.bsky.social Word salesman.
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
Hannah Khalil @hannykha.bsky.social Palestinian Irish Mum and Writer for stage, screen and radio. Writer in residence Bristol Old Vic 2025- 2030. Next up Henry VIII at Guildhall School 10-15 Feb 2025. Repped by Jess Cooper at Curtis Brown #BAFTACONNECT FRSL
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/
Holly O’Mahony @hollyomahony.bsky.social .Daytime writer/editor for Backstage, StarNow and Mandy
.Nighttime theatre critic, mainly for The Stage
. Sometime writer of cringey first-person essays that may or may not be found in publications like Vogue
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
Andrzej Łukowski @mrlukowski.bsky.social Polish Brummie, Time Out London theatre editor and kids person
Adam Lenson @adamlenson.bsky.social Director, Theatremaker and Creative Technologist. I live in London and make musicals and music driven work. Artistic Director of Timelapse.
https://linktr.ee/adamlenson
Kayla (Martell) Feldman @kaylatmf.bsky.social Director & Playwright (Rep: Berlin Associates)
Poet (Same Story out now from Verve Poetry Press)
they/she www.kaylafeldman.com
Rafaella Marcus @rafaellamarcus.bsky.social Director/writer/dramaturg. JMK Runner Up. Sap (bisexual tree play) 🌿 Rep: LARK. She/they
dermot daly @dermotdaly.bsky.social actor; director; writer; reader; filmmaker; dramaturg; musician; doctor; lecturer; researcher; trustee; student... (he/him)
www.dermotdaly.co.uk
Emma Baggott @spectatoreab.bsky.social Directs.
Mother.
Teacher.
Welsh.
European.
she / her.
Next Up: Dracula @mogster.bsky.social
https://lyric.co.uk/shows/dracula/
Rep: Dan Usztan @ United Agents
https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/emma-baggott
Jen Lunn @jensomelunn.bsky.social Queer Feminist Writer and Theatre Maker. London/Cardiff.
Kindness Matters.
Rep’d by ITG
Katie Posner @katieposner.bsky.social Joint Artistic Director/ CEO for Paines Plough. Adore telling stories on stage and in real life! Also obsessed with feeding people delicious food
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.
Tamsin Rees @tamsinrees.bsky.social Writer for stage and screen ✍️ represented by Jessica Stewart Independent Talent | Verity Bargate Longlist 2024 | Orange Tree Writers Collective 22 | Dramaturging, script reading, teaching
Newcastle
📚 they/them🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://tamsinrees.com
Anya Ryan @anyaryan.bsky.social Culture journalist and critic. Writes about comedy/theatre/gossip (and more).
Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social She / her. Views own.
idiot (fun kind), theatremaker, internationally acclaimed penguin.
Talent Development at Sheffield Theatres.
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/
Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres @liveveryplay.bsky.social Two Great Theatres. One Creative Heart.
Registered charity #1081229
Anna Jordan @annajordan.bsky.social Artist. she/her.
Graeae Theatre Company @graeaetheatre.bsky.social Graeae is a force for change in world-class theatre, breaking down barriers & boldly placing Deaf, Disabled & neurodivergent artists centre stage.
graeae.org
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
Nadia Nadarajah @nadianadarajah.bsky.social Deaf. Actor. BSL Pride. @AccessLtd Believe yourself then your dream will come true. Have become writer for either theatre & film - deaf women stories
Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme @rtyds.bsky.social The UK's longest running training scheme for theatre directors. Currently running FAIR PLAY, an initiative to tackle socio-economic inequity in theatre.
www.rtyds.co.uk
Jonathan Meth @jonathanmeth.bsky.social Dramaturg. Lecturer. Network Director. Consultant.
The Fence | Goldsmiths
Charlotte Bennett @charlottebennett.bsky.social Joint Artistic Director/ CEO Paines Plough. Mama. Artist. Griever. Believer.
Sarah Dickenson @sedickenson.bsky.social Playwright and Dramaturg
Neurodivergent
Boscastle/Bath
Rep: Alexandra Cory at Berlin Associates
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
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.
Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social Doctor of Audiences 🎭 🎥 📚 Author of #OnBeingUnreasonable with @FaberBooks: http://bit.ly/unrea. Agent JP Marshall, she/her, opinions: model’s own
Shahid Iqbal Khan @shahidiqbalkhan.bsky.social Playwright
Bio: https://shorturl.at/cCEO6
Rep'd by Colin Blumenau at The Production Exchange
Tim Crouch @thistimcrouch.bsky.social Playwright • theatre maker • radio • tv • Brighton UK
Jessica Millward @jesskmillward.bsky.social Theatre Director // Sheffield lass and East Londoner
David Byrne @mrdavebyrne.bsky.social Playwright. Artistic Director & CEO, Royal Court Theatre.- E Eleanor Tindall @eleanortindall.bsky.social Writer
https://www.casarotto.co.uk/clients/eleanor-tindall
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
Harriet Warnock 🇵🇸🇸🇩🏳️⚧️ @harrietwarnock.bsky.social Theatre//feminist//socialist//activism// #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine #Sudan #TransLivesMatter Freelance Theatre Producer. She/Her, Cisgender. Liverpool
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 ✡️🇺🇦
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
Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social The UK trade union for writers in TV, film, theatre, audio, books, poetry, comedy, animation and videogames
Join us! www.writersguild.org.uk
Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social Writes scripts, feeds cats, tries to not fuck up that thing you love | Murdered By My Father, Doctor Who, One Day | Associate Playwright, Royal Court Theatre
Dr Benjamin Tassie @benjamintassie.bsky.social Composer 🕊 Visiting Lecturer Birmingham Conservatoire • Resident Researcher Guildhall School of Music & Drama• Programme Manager Music in the Round • broadcaster on Resonance FM
naomi obeng @nanarty.bsky.social artist – gremlin – playwright
podcast: 'That's Creative!' on spotify
website: my name dot com
general vibe: side-eye with jokes
Lily Einhorn @madewithstring.bsky.social Creative and cultural producer specialising in community arts. Plus coaching. Plus writing. And ceramics. Raging about neo-liberalism most of the time. she/her
www.lilyeinhorn.com
Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social World-renowned playwright and exotic dancer. http://www.danrebellato.co.uk
The Stage @thestage.co.uk The Stage is the world’s oldest and best theatre publication 🗞️
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
Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social Playwright represented by Judy Daish at United Agents
Nick Hern Books @nickhernbooks.bsky.social Theatre publishers and performing rights agents - bringing you top drama by today’s most exciting writers, plus books to support your own work and career.
Dramaturgs' Network @dramaturgsnetwork.bsky.social Supporting dramaturgs, theatre artists & researchers since 2001
Awards 🏆 Events 🎭 Workshops 🧠 Research 📚
Join the network: https://tinyurl.com/2c33ax36
Frey Kwa Hawking @absentobject.bsky.social writes or talks about theatre or makes it but mostly doesn't