Anyone else anxiously refreshing the Arts council’s website today, hoping the new grant system gets released?

New year, new module - looking forward to teaching my own 3rd year UG module on playwriting. My sister pointed out this is my 13th freshers‘ week 😅

Join @marieminden.bsky.social @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social on 5 November for a book conversation: New Approaches to Theatrical Form! torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...

For anyone in/ near Oxford, @marieminden.bsky.social and I are having a public conversation about our new books and ’new approaches to theatrical form’ with the fabulous Sos Eltis in November. There will be cake! www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...

Wonderful to hold this in my hand! I’ve been looking forward for a long time to seeing @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social share her brilliance with the world!

Such a joy to write for Exeunt again

Today I got my author copies of the book based on my PhD. It's been many years in the making and I'm so proud finally to hold it in my hands www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-r...

oh no, I've done the thing where I thought didn't have enough to say in my conference paper, so I started writing and now I have 4000 words (too long) and figured out what I actually want to say

If any academics/ creative writers are looking for some summer writing support, this programme looks really good. I've found Francesca's workshops and group coaching sessions constructive, supportive and well-informed beathacoaching.org/retreats-cou... #academicsky #writersky

My article on 'virtual realisms' in seven methods of killing kylie jenner is out today. It's in great company in a special issue of JCDE on Theatre & the Digital, edited by Dorothee Birke and Anja Hartl www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Call for proposals to @tapra.bsky.social interim event: 'Futures After the Pandemic: Transmedial Stages and Posthuman Dramaturgies' Rose Bruford 9 May 10.00-17.00 #Academia #Theatre #AI #Conference #COVID tapra.org/call-partici...

Sent off the final round of proofs for my book- out in August so plenty of time to add to modules on playwriting/ feminist theatre/ contemporary drama for next academic year😉 Chapters on plays by Jasmine Lee-Jones, RashDash, Ella Hickson, Alice Birch, Lucy Kirkwood www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-r...

"If climate crisis is tricky to stage, then perhaps human extinction is impossible. We find it hard enough to wrap our heads around our own individual mortality, let alone the destruction of our entire species." On Complicité's Figures in Extinction and Bric à Brac/Told by an Idiot’s The Intrusion

📢ACTUAL ACADEMIC JOB🚨 Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)

an accident of timetabling meant that today I taught Valerie Solanas's SCUM manifesto and Alice Birch's Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. - Valentine's day special 😆

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Looking for rehearsal space in #Liverpool? We run Studio 1 at the Bluecoat with Sole Rebel and Holistic Harmonies. It's at @thebluecoat.bsky.social , right in the centre of town. It's nice, cosy and affordable. studio1atbc.simplybook.it/v2/ #theatre #dance #rehearsal

Any favourite resources on writing for podcasts and radio drama? (probably more towards the narrative fiction end but anything is good)

Charge your glasses and get ready to celebrate - it's Exeunt's Alternative Theatre Awards!

Gave feedback on an exciting PhD application this morning and now putting my out of office is on for Christmas. Wish me luck as I attempt to meet friends on Oxford street this evening!

omg my book is now listed on Bloomsbury's website with a publication date (aug 2025). it's starting to feel real! 😍https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-realisms-in-contemporary-british-theatre-9781350425811/

Submitted my first solo-written ACE project grant application. In awe of all the artists who do this regularly. Paws crossed.

Another grantium question for those with experience of applying to the arts council - is there a way to put the timeline in date order once you’ve added all the items? (I assumed it would do this automatically according to start date but it does not seem to and I’d like to avoid redoing if poss)

Theatre Bluesky, should I go and see Tender at the Bush Theatre in the next week? (Will be passing through London but it would be a bit of a detour to my current plans)

My brilliant colleague Alex Coupe’s book, The Gender Politics of Contemporary Performance in Northern Ireland, is out! @irishinstitute.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social 🎉 #TaPS #theatresky #feministtheatre

Dusty snuggling up in front of the Christmas tree

Really interesting feature from @hollywilliams.bsky.social @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social on the economics of script reading for theatres (but oof Holly 'Put brutally: why plough a huge chunk of budget into reading plays by delulu hopefuls you know won’t be a good fit for your theatre?')

Silly grantium question - where do you upload letters of support from partners on the arts council England project grants application?

Ah, this is a lovely rumination on theatre for babies and babes-in-arms performances, speckled with reflections on parenting and identity

Glad to have come across this poem again today. ‘I Worried’ by Mary Oliver 🎶

Important question for #academicsky and #writersky - What's your favourite diary/ planner? I've had a Leuchtturm for the past couple of years and like the double page spread with week to view + space for notes. But thinking about trying something new but in a similar vein. Recommendations?

Welcome to December from Santa Paws (aka Dusty)

Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow has launched its first online course. Introduction to Playwriting, a partnership with Scottish Playwrights Studio and brilliant playwright Douglas Maxwell, alongside other featured writers, is FREE. www.futurelearn.com/courses/an-introduction-to-playwriting

Important question for #academicsky and #writersky - What's your favourite diary/ planner? I've had a Leuchtturm for the past couple of years and like the double page spread with week to view + space for notes. But thinking about trying something new but in a similar vein. Recommendations?

Don't say we're not good to you: our second Friday piece is free-to-read too... In return, we just want to hear your thoughts too - do cameras on stage make theatre feel even more live? Or are they becoming an overdone cliche?

Read me getting excited about Ballet Shoes 🩰 And ponder the personality test question - which Fossil sister are you?

Whisper it, I think I might have finished my book…or at least be ready for it to fly the nest

Spent the afternoon cooking and listening to @danrebellato.bsky.social’s adaptation of Our Mutual Friend www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... - so richly textured and elegantly condensed into 3 hours! And lovely sound design and performances

Cosy weekend with Dusty 🐈‍⬛📕

Started my day with a body combat class at the gym - like Zumba but with punching. I think I like it!

Back to knitting frogs for Christmas gifts - here’s the gang so far (plus one in a pink and lilac jumper). Pattern from Claire Garland/ Dot Pebbles Knits 🐸

"The critical conversation around theatre is at risk of going quiet, just when we need it the most" The first issue of Exeunt's brand new substack is out, feat an intro by new editor Holly Williams, and a dialogue on the state of criticism by Natasha Tripney and Alice Saville

Exeunt is so back! Read the first issue here, then subscribe to support independent arts journalism open.substack.com/pub/exeuntma... @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social

I’m ‘Nobody is Talking About Form’, hbu? 😅

HOW DO YOU GET YOUR PLAY ON? This was the top question when Support Playwrights ran a #NoSillyQuestions initiative. We spoke to 12 brilliant playwrights & here's what they had to say! Writers incl #ChrisBush, @tommortonsmith.bsky.social, @hannykha.bsky.social ..... open.substack.com/pub/supportp...

Delighted to have a chapter in this new book on Women Experimenting in Theatre. My chapter is about feminist experiments with failure in Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch and We Want You to Watch by Birch and RashDash link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #academicsky #taps #theatreresearch

Slowly building up my confidence driving having recently passed my test. Today’s milestones: first time on the motorway (with an instructor); drove solo to pick up my partner; gave first lift to a friend. small steps but pretty big for a nervous driver like me 🚗

Sunday flowers

I'm putting together a list of UK Theatre Academics on Bluesky. If you think you should be on it or you know someone who should be but isn't, let me know! Theatre scholars assemble! bsky.app/profile/did:...

new here, dear theatre/film pals? my HUMAN INTEREST STORY is on demand.