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#TransAwarenessWeek 🧵Trigger warning: suicide I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice. Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was fifteen, to her sister, Kate a year later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/

🚨 LAST PUSH - MUST CLOSE TOMORROW! 🚨 Over 11,000 of us have spoken up through The Big Freelancer Survey in the last four years, making a huge impact on policies and funding in the arts. Let's keep the momentum going - fill in this year's survey now! linktr.ee/BigFreelancerS…

Playwright Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini (Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini) has said her Olivier win proves audiences are "hungry for these kinds of stories, which have been underserved far too long". Read the full story 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/oliviers-…

Producer Ameena Hamid has argued that slashing ticket prices will not solve the problem of "overwhelmingly white and middle and upper-class audiences". Read more 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/ameena-ha…

Birmingham! It’s coming home.

Looking for a dancing partner… (And Joint CEO)

50 years. Over 500 writers. The next chapter yet to be written 🖋️ If you can help us to share or donate to our #PP50for50 campaign, any support will go towards Paines Plough’s next 50 years of writers. Link: painesplough.com/support-us

After a sold-out run at Roundabout Summerhall at Edinburgh Festival Fringe last summer & a critically-acclaimed run at Royal Court in Dec, winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022, Nathan Queeley-Dennis’s debut play is on a UK tour this autumn produced by EKP & Paines Plough painesplough.com/productions/bu…

“It’s so refreshing to see this story in and on a west end stage - and I hope it’s not the last time’ 🧡🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #pridemonth #westend Standing At The Sky's Edge

Brave is the person this morning happily eating a massive bowl of soup for their breakfast on the very bumpy bus commute! I wouldn’t even brave drinking a can of pop for fear it would go all over me or the person in front.

I wrote this blog slash open letter to Judi Dench. Can you help me get it to her?

On Tuesday 2 July, 11am-2pm I'll be with dermot daly in the Leeds Playhouse cafe for the #PlaywrightsFlashmob. (PLAYWRIGHTS, READ THE WHOLE THREAD PLEASE!) Amazing @Emmabob3 will be coming through too! We've got a space where you can work, talk to other playwrights,... 1/6

Tomorrow’s #PlaywrightsFlashmob Leeds Playhouse will be hosted by me & Leon Fleming with @Emmabob3. Hot drinks, chat, writing space & communality and Dr. Rio Matchett from the Playhouse as well. (Big love to tommi bryson & Crucible Theatre for their version) #SupportPlaywrights

"It's the hope that kills you, but also keeps you alive."

Congratulations to arcstockton #VenuesNorth and everyone involved in putting together the latest #RoutesIn guide - everything you need to know about getting new work programmes in Northern venues in one place - including contacts for 45+ venue programmers!

The Cass Review is "based on prejudice rather than evidence...has caused enormous harm to children & their families, to democratic discourse and to wider principles of scientific endeavour." Dr Cal Horton & Ruth Pearce For Scientific American. #CassFlaws scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-…

The TV industry will say they need more working class creatives/stories and set up panels/schemes as if the problem is finding them, as if it’s never occurred to us to work in telly Truth is we’re here We pitch you stuff We try to work with you You turn us/our stories down

#BBConf24 An important topic covered with a sharp and penetrating focus from the panel - and with that added bonus ball extra with the news of the revived interest in BBC Radio3 brass band broadcasting. Now that was a boost with a possible 10 part series in the pipeline too.

If you are/know a UK based, deaf, disabled, neurodivergent or chronically ill creative aged 14-26, there's a few days left (till 14th Feb) to apply to our Young Artist Development Programme & make a piece of work for the Department for Wonder & Play zine touretteshero.com/2025/01/17/you…

Wrote a blog on Grand Theft Hamlet and the creative process. lukeedwardbarnes.com/single-post/gr…