𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧 𝟏𝟑 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 no thank u, pls do not notice me, I do not wish to be perceived

“Kirsty, what is it like to live with you?”

no bless yous for Giacomo?

Panic! At the Disco Existential Crisis! In the Archive

Our book, The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre, is now out in paperback, and can now be purchased for £35.99 (which is massively cheaper than the hardback version that came out at the start of 2024). 👇🏻 @methuendrama.bsky.social

Monty got home from her Bristol Old Vic Young Company session tonight having translated her current favourite song into Shakespearean English

the funniest thing about being bipolar is when the school mums run into Tom and say “oh I saw Kirsty recently, and she seemed so much more stable!” like sorry bbs, but no, Kirsty was simply Depressed 🥰

multitasking at the gym (assessing a funding bid)

I’m definitely going to have to delete this, bc it’s not safe for me to be fully out yet, but right now it feels like staying silent is much, much more dangerous than saying it out loud – and this is the only social media platform that my mum and my parents-in-law don’t follow me on. Sooo. I’m gay.

a little from Column A, a little from Column B

every Instagram advert from 1st Jan on: It’s time to go ghost mode sis! me: say no more me: <puts on long white nightdress; wafts around moaning loudly; starts throwing stuff at people who annoy me>

random woman at the gym: <gestures to take off my headphones> sorry to bother! I just wanted to say – I just opened up one of the lockers downstairs and found a spiky gold bra in it me: that’s mine! random woman: I guessed! I thought to myself “I wonder who that belongs to?”, and then I saw you

thank you to everyone – but especially my students, past & present ♥️

shot (title) chaser (dedication)

Today this is what bipolar looks like. Last week I rode the mania to finish my new book, and managed to get it submitted to Routledge at 8pm on Friday – I was literally hitting send as the porter was locking up. But you can only run from the depression for so long before it catches you

ten points if you get the reference #purplecauliflower

I always wanted a pinstripe suit! Turns out 2026 is my year

This book is truly groundbreaking, and I don’t say that lightly. Apols to @ellierycroft.bsky.social & @gregmw4.bsky.social for the simplification – but the big argument is that “dramatic” theatre was a relative blip, bc “postdramatic” theatre has more in common w the “predramatic” early-modern stage

Happy New Year and a pretty stupendous start to 2026 from my perspective as Predramatic Theatre -my co-authored book with @gregmw4.bsky.social - was published by Palgrave on Friday! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Very kindly, our reader said of the book :-

me in my inbox, which has been so lovely & quiet for weeks, seeing people start firing off those post-holiday emails

this weekend I got to hang out with @katejholmes.bsky.social and try aerial yoga 🧘‍♀️

no no, I can’t close them, these are my emotional support tabs

my students when I tell them they’re not allowed to use AI to write their essays

celebrating a fabulous first day in the archives with a pumpkin cocktail (v on brand after having a pumpkin-pie-filled croissant cube for breakfast)

On the plane to NYC to do some archival research for my 5th book. This one is going to be an intellectual history of the development of audience research, going back to the 1920s. Working title: Influence Men

I just said “6… 7…” to my two boys (11yo & 8yo) and it was like I’d activated a sleeper cell

I can explain

Tonight I’m at Leeds Playhouse to host a fun chat for Leeds Festival of Ideas about all things manners with the lovely @williamhanson.bsky.social, the etiquette coach. I’ve come prepared by wearing plenty of pearls, ready to clutch if needed 😮🥰

thanks Grazia

I had the ✨BEST✨ time this week giving the opening lecture for Prada Mode at London Frieze – feat. a compelling immersive installation by @elmgreenanddragset.bsky.social called ‘The Audience’, plus a series of brilliant talks about all things audiences

invented a game at the gym. I pump weights while watching the backs of people exercising on the cardio machines. the game is called “adult lesbian or teenage boy?”

special interests

getting a fly in your eye while on the bike is funny bc you’ll just be cycling along like 🥲 I have a tiny corpse 🥲drowning 🥲 on my eyeball 🥲 and there’s nothing I can do about it 🥲 apart from blink a lot 🥲 and cry 🥲

bipolar playlist time

In fairness, I’m an actual human with a PhD but neither can I www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/b...

Clean Slate is currently getting rave reviews at the Fringe following our R&D audience research! It’s about weaponised incompetence & casts audiences as the hapless boyfriend – and it is BRILLIANT. I got involved because it’s the sharpest, cleverest use of audience participation I’ve ever seen.

I’m on Research Leave! 🥰🚦

my hairdresser: how is that temperature for you me, scalp scalded, skull on fire, steam rising from my head like the breath of a dragon: fine thanks 🙂

“This is the life, relaxing with my favourite member of the family” – my sunny seven-year-old Sully 🥰

my old pal Truth Sayer is back! hi bbs it’s been ages 🥰

Matt Badwin

I need to use the sleep

Got back from holiday. Look what my student has done to my office 😂💙 #Gredge (it’s a joke based on a hilarious web comic)

Theatre Fandom is on the list of new theatre books for summer reading! newyorktheater.me/2025/05/17/n...

🎭 COMING UP: Join Dr @kirstysedgman.bsky.social for Stories from the Stage: Celebrating Modern Theatre Kirsty will be joined by Gregory Doran, Heidi Vaughan & Polly Davis to discuss why the arts are more important than ever 🗓️ Fri 6 June, 6-9pm 📌 Arts Complex 🎟️ bit.ly/4dhrpaY (free!)

A book chapter #fanformance #liveart #broing out now in #theatre fandom @uiowa press looking forward to reading all the other contributions !

Delighted to be in this new book with brilliant collaborators Sarah Price and Helen Freshwater. Our chapter investigates the idea of distributed fandom through frequent theatre attendance, drawing on our @ukri.org funded Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts project 🎭 🎵

I have a chapter in this I'm very proud of, about bisexual fan communities relationship to Hamilton, and the work that queer fan communities do to see themselves in the room where it happens 💙💜🩷

New at University of Iowa Press ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Theatre Fandom: Engaged Audiences in the Twenty-first Century Editor(s) Kirsty Sedgman, Francesca Coppa & Matt Hills uipress.uiowa.edu/books/theatr...

Hot off the presses - Theatre Fandom, edited by me, @matt-hills.bsky.social & @kirstysedgman.bsky.social and featuring a collection of terrific essays. U Iowa Press 2025! (The two sides of my career have finally connected! \o/ Life makes sense now! :D)