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/
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/
Tania Ferreyra 🇦🇷🏳️🌈 @blackcherry373.bsky.social Playwright/ACE DYCP funded 2024/25
Sheffield Theatres Bank Cohort 2023
https://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/profile/tania-ferreyra
Sheffield Theatres Associate Artist
Author
Poet
Carer & Advocate
Kundalini Yogi & Teacher
Political refugee
Tarek-Tim @ttm71010-alphamale.bsky.social I’m a guy & passionate about civilians being abused by Criminal Nations backing their Abuse/Intent/Criminal Activities by Occupiers & Their Western Government BACKERS. FINANCIALLY AND PROVIDING BOMBS/ Ammunition/ Political/ Media backing criminal acts!
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
Corinne Salisbury @cjsalisbury.bsky.social Playwright. Theatre Producer. Geek. Multi-brained small-child-juggler. Exec Producer @Fifth Word, Producer @Company of Wolves. Playwrights Studio Scotland awardee. Often found writing feminist/speculative/humanist sci-fi/horror. Derby- and Sheffield-made
Jessica Millward @jesskmillward.bsky.social Theatre Director // Sheffield lass and East Londoner
Orange Works @orangeworks.bsky.social We are a new writing theatre company based in Kent, UK. We take new work to fringe festivals and intimate theatres around the UK and now internationally.
See www.orangeworks.org.uk for further info
Side Quest Productions @sidequestprods.bsky.social Side Quest Productions is a production company led by Director Madelaine Moore. Side Quest brings stories from the outer limits to the mainstream - a good night out in the left of field, designed to provoke and entertain.
Christine Walsh (She/Her) @cwactor.bsky.social Actor and VO Artist
Coronation Street | Emmerdale | Hollyoaks | Ridley | Tin Star
Rep'ed by Top Talent and Soho Voices.
https://www.spotlight.com/6295-6759-4204
Emily Coleman @emcoleman.bsky.social Exec Producer at Spymonkey.
Parent, school Chair of Govs, tortoise owner.
Here as me, not for them
Listening & learning.
Damien Stanton @stantondesign.bsky.social Design For Performance, Events & Installations
☉ The Stage & Broadway World Award Winner
☉ Rep‘d by Berlin Associates
www.damienstanton.co.uk
@pixelcollar.bsky.social @pixelcollar.bsky.social 
People's Theatre @peoplestheatre.bsky.social The North-East of England's leading non-professional theatre
https://linktr.ee/peoplestheatre
Rebel Sparks Theatre @rebelsparks.bsky.social Theatre that burns Bright. Nottingham based theatre company that centres stories about people with experience of womanhood. Resident Creatives at Curve. www.rebelsparks.co.uk
Brown Girl Noise! @browngirlnoise.bsky.social The play, returning to the Glitch Theatre, Waterloo 22nd Jan - 10th Feb after a sold out run!
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vaultcreativearts/1488433
Kerry Wright @kerrywright.bsky.social Creative Producer & Facilitator
Writer/Prod - KAILEY
Producer @interplaytheatre show DRIFT
Prev:@sheffieldtheatres Trainee Prod @bbcwriters NorthernVoices
📍Bradford
Khai & Faizal @khaiandfaizal.bsky.social A couple making art that celebrates their Muslim, Malay, and Singaporean identity while sharing their unique story on a global stage. Currently based in London.
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
Jess Brigham @jessibrig.bsky.social Lighting designer from Hull! And apparently a writer now too!
jessicabrigham.co.uk
Beth Knight (she/her) @bethlaknight.bsky.social director + dramaturg + auntie biffy
co-director archipelago arts collective
now: mentor director | nt connections
beth-knight.co.uk
Ovation Theatrical Projections @ovationtheatrical.bsky.social Ovation Theatrical Projections creates stunning, professional scenic projections for use in theatrical productions. We offer high-quality, affordable projections that help productions pop and sparkle.
www.ovationtheatricalprojections.com
Festival Reviews .org @festivalreviews.bsky.social Daily posts about film & film festivals. From mainstream to Indy movies.
https://festivalreviews.org
Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social Award-winning writer. 39 years incarcerated, 23 at San Quentin. PEN America recognized. Published by Joyce Carol Oates. I write about prison, redemption, loss, humor & hope—and the humanity found where most people never look.
Richard Delaney @richardddelaney.bsky.social 💼 Programme Leader | BA Acting: Contemporary & Devised | RCSSD
💡 Research & Teaching | Queer Phenomenology & Psychophysical Actor Training
🎥 Coaching | Online, In-Person, On-Set
🏳️🌈 he/they
🔗 linktr.ee/RichardDDelaney
Joleen White & Peter Aldred @jackslantern.bsky.social Yorkshire writing partnership (TV, film & theatre). Comedy lovers.
Beyond scheme @graeae theatre alumni. Also do some producing & access work.
Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social She / her. Views own.
idiot (fun kind), theatremaker, internationally acclaimed penguin.
Talent Development at Sheffield Theatres.
Paul K. Smith @paulksmith.bsky.social #Financier of US Startups; & JVs in Asia #Physicist #Author: Strategy. #Playwright: 26 Recent NY Shows (Sarah's Rapture, Pablo's Kisses, Women of Paris, Badass Women, City Suite, Day of Promise, Ritual Cleansing, Rebooting Life, Break-Up, Twilight of Joy..
Ruth D'Silva @ruthdsilva.bsky.social Writer of stage and screen. RSC 37Plays Shortlist/ MGCFutures Bursary recipient/ R&D's this year at Donmar Warehouse and Stratford East/ Tara Seed Commission/ Full run of BUNGALOW at Theatre503 March'25 Still on twitter on https://x.com/RuthDSilva2
Black Bright Theatre @blackbrighttheatre.bsky.social Female/queer/ND-led award winning theatre company specialising in original folk horror🎭
Shows: The Hunger 🐷 Birdwatching 🪺
Sparked in Sheffield 2021💡
Maisie Holland @maisieholland.bsky.social 
Ylana Gibert @ylanagibert.bsky.social freelance producer & stage manager
manchester based🕺🏻
she/her
THE LAST DAYS OF TRUMP (A Liberal Fantasy for the Stage) @trumplastdays.bsky.social I am the best play. There is no better play. Not even Hamlet by that loser Shakespeare!
Next up: London ONE NIGHT ONLY Sep 1st
Tickets on sale NOW! Follow link.
It's going to be INCREDIBLE!
👉👉👉 https://linktr.ee/trumplastdays
Box of Tricks @boxoftrickstheatre.bsky.social Manchester theatre company.
The play makers. Every story told. Every voice heard.
https://boxoftrickstheatre.co.uk
Alexandra Whiteley @lexi-lexis.bsky.social Theatre director, spoonie, spooky, feminist, wearer of red lipstick.
Supported Artist and Bank Cohort '22 @crucibletheatre, @Graeae Beyond '24-5
Rep @cowleyknoxguy
Views my own. She/her
https://linktr.ee/lexilexis
Daniel Hird @danielhird.bsky.social 🏴 Actor and Theatre-Maker @endeavourarts.bsky.social. Bits of directing, teaching, and set work when the need arises.
Represented by TCG Artist Management.
@helendenning.bsky.social @helendenning.bsky.social Producer for Black Bright Theatre Company - female/queer/ND led folk horror💡
Brummie born, Sheffield based 🏡
🩷💜💙
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
Cody McDevitt @codymcdevitt.bsky.social Abortion rights scholar who runs a pro-choice newsletter called Repro Rights Now, which is at reprorights.substack.com
Also the author of a forthcoming comprehensive history of the reproductive rights movement.
Screenwriter/playwright. Love music.
Tom Bird @tomwbird.bsky.social CEO @SheffieldTheatres. Theatre producer, theatre manager, traveller, reader, football & cricket obsessive, northeasterner in Yorkshire.
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Ellen @ellenbooth.bsky.social Freelance Arts & Festival Producer (she/her). Opinions are my own. Currently working with MAYK, Candoco Dance Company and artist Liz Crow of Roaring Girl Productions
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
Marjorie H Morgan @marjoriemorgan.bsky.social Storyteller.
I write.
I research.
I photograph.
Archaeologist of hidden stories.
Witness.
Orchids.
Available for commissions.
Paypal.me/MarjorieHMorgan
ko-fi.com/Marjorie
Bylines: Art UK, gal-dem, Are We Europe, Corridor8, The Fourdrinier
Rachel Clements @rachclements.bsky.social Writer | Theatre academic based at the University of Manchester | Mother | Maker |
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
🌸 Carla Ng ✨🇵🇸 @cnntwlc.bsky.social 搞屎棍大使 (multidisciplinary creative), director/composer, was in @guildhallschool, noodle enthusiast 🏳️⚧️🇭🇰 she/they
https://cnntwlc.hotglue.me/page1
Usman Azfar @usmanazfar.com Amateur Film Maker
I make videos on British Mosques, Islamic History and Muslim Life
See my films on: www.youtube.com/UsmanAzfar
Rachel Hamada @rachelhamada.bsky.social Director at @takeoneaction.bsky.social Founder and chair at @theferret.scot Former lead on community-led investigations at @tbij.bsky.social Playwright. Love games, play, stories. Scotland-based. She/her
@yesyesnonoprod.bsky.social @yesyesnonoprod.bsky.social 
@lisamballen.bsky.social @lisamballen.bsky.social 
Quin G @qgold.bsky.social Drama & theatre teacher and director. South London via Derby. Interests include clowning, Irish theatre, youth theatre and August Wilson.
Luke Hill - Acting Coach @lukehillacting.bsky.social Acting coach. Using psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness to help actors find a deeper connection to their work and themselves.
https://lukehillacting.com/
Mike @torontofringe.bsky.social me online 🇨🇦
Alyison @alyison.bsky.social 📚 🎭 🐱
Polly Wiseman @pollywiseman.bsky.social Shows, clothes, highs n lows (bipolar)
Theatre-maker, AD of Fireraisers.
They/them
Ashling Findlay-Carroll @ashlingfc.bsky.social Theatre & Performance maker, lecturer, curriculum team manager PASS
mani @mwsiu.bsky.social Principal ballerina. Nephew to three gorgeous uncles
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
Humira @digital-alchemist.bsky.social 
Rosie Sergent @rosiesergent.bsky.social Producer & Artist based in MCR. Making sick art 💀👻💖. Board Member: Glasgow Zine Library. Starter of: Drawn Poorly Zine ✏️ . She/her
Alison Carr @alisoncarr.bsky.social Writer • Doppelganger, watch now on BBC iPlayer • Finalist, The Women's Prize for Playwriting • Tuesday, Caterpillar, and The Last Quiz Night On Earth published by Nick Hern Books • Iris published by Concord Theatricals
🔗 https://linktr.ee/Alison_Carr
Michael Mitchell @michaelmitchell.bsky.social I'm running for City Council in Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth. https://toronto-danforth.ca
Quick, what’s the longest word you can find —> https://bsky.app/profile/michaelmitchell.bsky.social/post/3mvadd2s4ic2l
Caitlin Mawhinney @mawhinneydesign.bsky.social Set & Costume Designer • The Stage Debut Award Nominee • Evening Standard Award Winner •
☆ Builder of worlds, lover of light ☆
www.caitlinmawhinney.com
@suzbelldramaturg.bsky.social @suzbelldramaturg.bsky.social 
Sam Burns @samrandomnumber.bsky.social Playwright (Not the Worst Place, Paines Plough/Theatr Clwyd/Sherman Cymru 2014, Floor 13, Radio 4 afternoon drama, 2017). Kitchen assistant by day.
Jovana Backovic @jovanabackovic.bsky.social Composer / Sound Designer / Performance artist based in London. Bass guitar and vocals with La Nouvelle Musique and ArHai. www.jovanabackovic.com
Rachael Halliwell @rachaelhalliwell.bsky.social Dramatist✨Theatremaker✨
Co-Creative Director All Points North ✨
Screen Yorkshire MSDP Cohort ✍🏻🎞️
Supported Artist - Sheffield Theatres
Associate Artist - Elysium Theatre, Harrogate Theatre
Mentor✨Vintage lass
www.rachaelhalliwell.com
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Ellie Harrington @ellieharrington.bsky.social Manc director/playwright
Current:
Creator on Blood Beats First Press @boxoftrickstheatre.bsky.social 
Mobius @mobiustheatre.bsky.social We build audiences for exciting & inventive cultural projects, specialising in performing arts & entertainment #ArtsPR #ArtsMarketing
👉 http://linktr.ee/mobiustheatre
📍Bloomsbury, London
Lion & Unicorn Theatre @landutheatre.bsky.social The Best of London's Fringe Theatre | Managed by @proforcatheatre | @thelionunicorn | #BeWhoYouWantToBe 🦁🦄🎭
Clodagh Chapman @clochpmn.bsky.social writer + director / she/her
clodaghchapman.co.uk
Thomas Atkinson-Joy @tatkjoy.bsky.social Often found in a theatre or behind a piano, occasionally at the same time • Director of Marketing at @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social • he/him • 🎭🎹🏳️🌈
afshan d’souza-lodhi @afshandl.bsky.social writer of TV, plays & poetry - WGGB rep for Manchester - represented by MMB Creative - funny (my mum says so) - constant resting bitch face - pro-Palestinian all the way from the river to the sea -
- all views & typos my own -
🍉 she/they
Beccy D'Souza @beccydsouza.bsky.social Activist, feminist, actor, creative producer & mum. Artist Development & studio programming at Nottingham Playhouse. Own views etc.
Also voice of Mary Shelley for @midnightpals.bsky.social
🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 none of us are free 'til all of us are free
the silliest of sausages @takingtheliss.bsky.social Liss 24 she/they 🩷💜💙 🏳️🌈🍉🇵🇸
🌞♒️🌝♏️↗️♎️
BG3/CritRole/Stardew
finally beat honour mode 25/09/24!!
saw hozier 1 time and i will never be the same
Shahid Iqbal Khan @shahidiqbalkhan.bsky.social Playwright
Bio: https://shorturl.at/cCEO6
Rep'd by Colin Blumenau at The Production Exchange
Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social Playwright represented by Judy Daish at United Agents
Adam Karim @karimcrackered.bsky.social NT Resident Director
Eastern Eye Best Director '25
JMK Award Winner
Donmar RAD
Recent: 'Guards At The Taj' Orange Tree Theatre
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.
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
Jennifer Lim @xanadujenn.bsky.social Actor, Maker of Theatre and Film. Believe in the power of stories and art. Chocolate addict
Founder and AD of Moongate - Company in Residence at Omnibus Theatre
Hannah Stone @hannahlucystone.bsky.social Director, Dramaturg, Mum | Co AD @RebelSparksCIC | Directed Offie nominated #shewolves | Recently #TheTrials @nottmplayhouse. RTST award runner up 2024
Daniel York Loh @danielyorkloh.bsky.social Writer - Performer - Filmmaker - Musician
Associate Artistic Director - Kakilang https://www.kakilang.org.uk/ https://linktr.ee/DanielYorkLoh
Kakilang @kakilangarts.bsky.social Kakilang produces and presents world-class interdisciplinary art from a wide spectrum of Southeast and East Asian voices. Winner: Digital Culture Award (Storytelling)
linktr.ee/kakilangarts
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 ✡️🇺🇦
Peripeteia Theatre @peripeteiatheatre.bsky.social 🎭 Award Winning Theatre Company based in Manchester.
👉 Up Next: TBA
🎭 Dedicated to a collaborative approach.
https://linktr.ee/peripeteiatheatre
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
dermot daly @dermotdaly.bsky.social actor; director; writer; reader; filmmaker; dramaturg; musician; doctor; lecturer; researcher; trustee; student... (he/him)
www.dermotdaly.co.uk
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/
Sonali @sonalidb.bsky.social Playwright, Screenwriter, hoper of hopes, dreamer of dreams. she/her www.sonaliwrites.com