Prepping for a week in Canterbury, workshopping "The Unstoppable Letty Pegg - the musical" with @nymt.org.uk... the dream is coming true! We have an amazing young company, director, choreographer, MD and more in the room - plus a Q&A with Letty's book-mum @iszi.com. Get ready for LONDON CHAOS!

ncredible scenes! I applied a second (final) time for a DYCP grant from @artscouncilengland.bsky.social and... I got it! From September, I'm developing my bookwriting skills for youth companies & coming up with new ideas for British Musicals to nurture towards production over the coming years 🙌

Digging into the Science Museum archive today, and found this: an original notebook of Hertha Ayrton’s research into fans 🪭 Also found a Suffragette Society letterhead being used as a bookmark in a science journal 😝💪🔥 Hertha Ayrton Fan Club assemble! We have some big things coming soon…

Throw back to June 2023 when we sent "Unstoppable" from The Unstoppable Letty Pegg into the Stiles+Drewe Best New Song Prize... and Sienna Aurora Clarke sang it in the final concert! 💁‍♀️ 🥋 💪 Now we're about to workshop the rest of the show based on @iszio.bsky.social's book with @nymt.org.uk 🤯 🤩 😲

What a night #PintOfScience was on 20 May! @neilgostling.bsky.social shattered dodo myths with science & wit, then @helenarney.bsky.social stole the show with songs, smarts & a ukulele. Extinct birds + geek comedy = a Tuesday treat. Thanks for the laughs, facts & full house! @pintofscience.uk

Kid's publishing people, and adjacents! I've written a draft of a kids picture book text in a genre I'm calling GIANT SQUID MAGICAL REALISM. My 4 year old and 8 year old like it, but does anyone want to have a look at it? 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑

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If you're in Southampton at the end of the month, you should go to The Stage Door and hear them sing some of the songs from @firebrigademusical.bsky.social (the musical I'm writing with @jennipinnock.com and @helenarney.bsky.social !) thestagedoor.org.uk/product.php/...

Happy Birthday Hertha Ayrton! Physicist, inventor, science communicator, social activist and founder of the Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade: youtube.com/watch?v=lkiU...

A rare solo show from me, doubling up with an even rare dodo expert… what a team!

🧪 Science... 🦤 Dodos.... 🎶 Ukuleles! We're back at Pint of Science again on Tues 20 May, 6 - 8pm: @neilgostling.bsky.social reveals the dodo’s wild side, then @helenarney.bsky.social hits you with sharp wit & science songs. Expect surprises, LOLs & maybe singalongs. 🍻 Book here: bit.ly/3G3hGIH

Check out the updated version we helped produce in 2019 with @helenarney.bsky.social, the Waterbeach Brass Band and chemists from around the world! www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDY... #ChemSky #ScienceSky #MusicSky

Happy Tom Lehrer Day to everyone! Especially to Tom Lehrer ⚗️🧪🎹 youtu.be/hzvVLK9Y048

Sharing brilliant news that @jennipinnock.com and @mackenwells.bsky.social are part of Lincoln Arts Centre's 2025 Innovate Artist intake! Can't wait to work with local talent to bring @firebrigademusical.bsky.social to life here - one of our Fire Fighters is Lincoln-born Charlotte Scott! 🔥🔥🔥

Head over here to find out what I’ve been wanging on about for a year and a half so far…

Ready for some sparks to fly? Head over to our website to watch our showcase filmed at Birmingham Hippodrome earlier this month! firebrigademusical.com/about/

The showcase recording of our fire brigade musical is here! Head to the link to see what the fabulous @helenarney.bsky.social , @mackenwells.bsky.social and I have been up to this year (aside from spending 30 minutes on single bars of music of course..)

Happy World Theatre day, to anyone and everyone who feels seen by this...

Sometimes writing a musical involves spending 30 minutes on a zoom call "discussing" a single bar in a song in ever decreasing circles of madness and then adding one SINGLE WORD and the song is suddenly 3,000% better and everyone is happy (PS love you @jennipinnock.com @mackenwells.bsky.social)

Happy π Day everyone! This year we collided some masses together. In practise: youtu.be/vlUTlbZT4ig And in theory: youtu.be/6dTyOl1fmDo

We nailed those fire drills! Thanks to Birmingham Hippodrome, the entire New Musicals team, cast and crew for two amazing New Musicals Showcases yesterday. It was brilliant to share the sparks of our musical with so many people!

Our fabulous fire brigade at last week's showcase! From left to right: Elena Pitsiaeli, Courtney Stapleton, Rosie Coles, Elexi Walker and Maddison Bulleyment. Birmingham Hippodrome 📷@danny_with_a_camera

Maths & English teachers - what is your experience (if any) of collaboration between the two subjects? Please take part in this joint @mathematicala.bsky.social / @englishassociation.bsky.social survey app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/gsoe/engli...

It’s one of those days… After a quick email exchange this morning, you can tune in to More Or Less on @bbcradio4.bsky.social tomorrow morning at 9am to hear me sing a topical new version of a popular nerdy song… 🤓

Fighting fires, smashing the patriarchy and studying hard for a degree they won’t even earn. Our intrepid band of firefighters were a busy gang. But they also found time for fun – and one of the many activities they enjoyed was singing. Find out more: firebrigademusical.com/2025/03/02/w...

If you want to achieve all three at once, you can have a snack while booking tickets and telling @helenarney.bsky.social and me that the line up we’ve created is amazing 👇🏼

One of the central driving forces behind our main character, Hertha, is her powerful sense of justice. She has to do the right thing, whatever the cost. Find out more about moments of protest in Hertha's life in Helen's blog post: firebrigademusical.com/2025/02/25/h...

Want more of this? Follow the show on here at @firebrigademusical.bsky.social

Blazing fires start with small sparks... 🔥🔥🔥 Come see the sparks of the new musical I'm writing with @jennipinnock.com and @mackenwells.bsky.social at Birmingham Hippodrome on Thursday 6th March: "The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade" www.birminghamhippodrome.com/calendar/new...

Come see what we’ve been up to at Birmingham Hippodrome on 6th March… only a few tickets left! www.birminghamhippodrome.com/calendar/new...

So... who do I know that is connected with a choir? Adults or children or in a school! Professional or leisure-time! Basically ANY CHOIRS! COME AT ME!

Taking a January Break from the socials, see y’all in February I suppose!

Merry Christmas from me and Usher. 🙂‍↔️🎄

This was a delight of a gig to be part of on Sunday! Talking (and singing) about Space Animals with the OAE at Kings Place in the morning, followed by Nine Lessons with @robinince.bsky.social in the evening. I slept all day Monday, obv…

Having the BEST time hosting @sundayassembly.bsky.social Yule Rock 2024 at @conwayhall.bsky.social Beautiful community, wonderful night (plus a welsh mystic horse head costume that I don’t have enough characters to explain here… 🐴) LET IT GOOOOOOOO!!!!

Yesterday was spent at the very festive Birmingham Hippodrome working on the Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade musical with the fabulous @mackenwells.bsky.social and @helenarney.bsky.social ! 🔥🔥

Absolutely beaming all the way to Glyndebourne to watch Sussex choirs sing my new carol “Christmas Magic” for the first time! All thanks to the legend that is composer @lucyarmstrong91: the Sullivan to my Gilbert, the Menken to my Ashman, the Lin Manuel Miranda to my Lin Manuel Miranda… 💪

When your gig tonight is in a fancy hotel ballroom BUT the bathroom floor tiles are as nerdy as you are… 🤓

Back in my once-a-year office… @fotsn.bsky.social at Cambridge Theatre for another night of Unnecessary Detail 🤓

Meant to point you in the direction of the @fotsn.bsky.social podcast - festivalofthespokennerd.com/podcast/ - Towards the end of the latest episode @helenarney.bsky.social talks about the Fire Brigade, about our lead character Hertha Ayrton and presents one of the songs!

Had a brilliant time at Curtain Raisers and Rewrites at the Birmingham Hippodrome on Fri and Sat. Thanks to the brilliant band and performers for performing Fire Drills and Time To See This Through from The Cambridge First All Ladies Fire Brigade. @mackenwells.bsky.social @helenarney.bsky.social

Our lineup includes: @robeastaway.bsky.social @medcrisis.bsky.social @marinemumbles.bsky.social @helenarney.bsky.social @standupmaths.bsky.social Steve Mould Subhadra Das Bec Hill Katie Steckles Gemma Arrowsmith Seb Lee-Delisle And maybe some surprises too! Buy tickets at fotsn.com/tickets

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