I have two plays debuting next year! Yui's Unique Adventure with @lunghatheatre.bsky.social www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve... And La Soltiude @notsoniceuk.bsky.social 13/02/26 - '[UN]LOVABLE' Performance at Augustine United Church, Edinburgh.

And that's a wrap on our #GivingTuesday2025 socials coverage! Thanks to everyone who followed along, liked, engaged and of course donated: we hope you're as excited as we are about all that lies ahead for Lung Ha in 2026!

There's still time to donate to our Giving Tuesday campaign! Interested to know how we spend your money? 📜⬇️ Photos © Chloe McAleece, Premier

As a special Giving Tuesday treat, we’re delighted to share this behind-the-scenes video showing Ensemble members Gavin, Ian and Kiki sharing how they feel to be involved in our rehearsed readings at @traversetheatre.bsky.social, 22-23 January at 7pm. #GivingTuesday2025 ❤️💛🤍

www.lungha.com/2025/12/dona... Today is Giving Tuesday and we hope you’ll consider supporting Lung Ha Theatre Company. Your support will spark creative opportunities and help us make award-winning productions.

Giving Tuesday is only 7 days away and we need you to get involved! We are participating in Giving Tuesday next week on 2nd December. By getting involved, you’ll help us make fabulous theatre in 2026 and provide more opportunities for learning-disabled adults to participate in the arts.

You might have spotted a familiar name in @traversetheatre.bsky.social's exciting season announcement for Spring 2026 👀 Lung Ha Touring Company is delighted to present rehearsed readings of short plays written by 2 of our Ensemble actors on 22nd - 23rd January 2026! www.lungha.com/2025/11/tour...

In honour of Trustees' Week 2025, we shine a spotlight on the new additions to - and bittersweet departures from - our Board of Trustees throughout this past year: www.lungha.com/2025/11/lhtc...

We are looking for new volunteers to join our fabulous support team ahead of our next planned production in Spring/Summer 2026! www.lungha.com/2025/10/volu...

Just FIVE days left to apply to BOTH our online programme Lung Ha Across Scotland AND to join our Board of Trustees! Find more information, including how to apply, on our website: www.lungha.com/news/ and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch! #LungHaMatters ❤️💛🤍

This week is Scottish Learning Disability Week 2025, and so we thought we’d share a wee bit about what we’ve been up to! 👀

Applications are now open for Lung Ha Across Scotland 2025-26! Find more information, including the form to apply, on our website: www.lungha.com/2025/09/audi... If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch, and please share this with anyone you think may be interested!

Please share with anyone you think may be interested! Lung Ha Theatre Company is seeking new Trustees to join our Board on a part-time, voluntary basis. We are particularly interested in hearing from those who have skills and experience in finance and in fundraising: www.lungha.com/2025/09/join...

Team Lung Ha embarked on an Edinburgh Festivals day out earlier this week, taking in The Unlikely Friendship of Feather Boy and Tentacle Girl at Assembly Roxy and The Beautiful Future is Coming at the @traversetheatre.bsky.social!

It's that time of year again... (in case you hadn't noticed!) 👀 Our 2025 Festival coverage will kick off very soon on this page: www.lungha.com/festival-rev... - why not catch up on our archive of previous years' reviews in the meantime! #LungHaMatters ❤️💛🤍

We are delighted to announce that Adjjima Na Patalung has been appointed as the new Festival Director for the Edinburgh International Children's Festival. www.imaginate.org.uk/news Photo Credit: MAPPA @creativescots.bsky.social @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social The Scottish Goverment

☀️😎 Our July newsletter is now LIVE, featuring such exciting updates as: 🎉 We were overjoyed to be 1 of 4 charities chosen at a recent People's Postcode Lottery Team Day to receive an incredibly generous donation of £3,550, presented to us by Sam and Lambros during a recent visit to our office.

@playpiepint.bsky.social returns to the Traverse this autumn for a season of new Scottish writing! Highlights include a hip-hop musical about Braveheart, a dark comedy about Irish dancing, and a high-stakes game of chess. Book now via our box office / website www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/a-p...

Catch Ensemble member Emma McCaffrey in the @notsoniceuk.bsky.social 'Return to Sender' Scratch Night at 7pm next Friday 18th July at the Augustine United Church! Tickets 🎟 and further info 👉 www.notsonice.co.uk/event-detail...

www.lungha.com/2025/06/co-f... We are delighted to announce that our co-founder and Honorary President Richard Vallis has been awarded an MBE in the King’s Honours List 2025 for his services to theatre, sport and to people with a disability.

We had a wonderful time at the I'm Me Festival in York last week, and have had some really lovely and positive feedback! Thank you so much to Gavin, Ryan and Becky - our dream team on the ground - as well as all of our actors who participated in the project over the last 2 years.

The I'm Me Festival is HERE! 🎉 Lead Artist Gavin, Lead Facilitator Ryan and our Support Team Co-ordinator Becky have travelled down to @yorkstjohn.bsky.social for the culmination of this 2-year project exploring identity, representation and voice for learning-disabled and autistic artists.

We may have missed the official #VolunteersWeek2025 cut-off, but every week is volunteers' week at Lung Ha! Our fantastic Volunteer Support Team are at the heart of all that we do, supporting and encouraging our actors to work to the best of their abilities - thank you one and all!

👀 Psst... Have you signed up to our newsletter yet? 📩 Our June newsletter is packed full of exciting updates from Lung Ha HQ, including: 🎉 The launch of the first edition of our new Access and Creative Principles Toolkit (which you may have seen us shouting about on our socials yesterday!)

We are delighted to announce the launch of our Access and Creative Principles Toolkit! We've distilled over 40 years of experience in making theatre performances with learning disabled actors into this new publication filled with insights, practical tips and examples: www.lungha.com/2025/06/lung...

🎉 #TRAVFEST25 ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉 A powerful programme of 12 shows and 10 premieres. Curated by Scotland's new writing theatre, this season gives space to key issues on people’s minds today - and also bringing radical joy, humanity and laughter. youtu.be/MbIUzUyic2Q?...

Our friends at Curious Seed are hiring a new Engagement Artist - deadline is 23rd June at 12 noon! Visit www.curious-seed.com/opportunities for further info.

Welcome to the real Living Wage movement @lunghatheatre.bsky.social 👋 We're delighted you have joined us! #LivingWage #FairWork #Edinburgh

📣 ATTENTION: @fedscottheatre.bsky.social Members! 📣 We are delighted to announce that this Thursday 29th May, we will be launching our first Access and Creative Principles Toolkit, a resource for individuals and organisations with guidance on working with learning-disabled adults.

#ThrowbackThursday This week marks exactly 1 year since @lunghatheatre.bsky.social took part in Inclusion Europe and Enable's Europe in Action conference in Glasgow! ⏳👀🎉

We've been loving the new series of The Assembly on ITV, which sees neurodivergent and learning disabled interviewers asking celebrities unfiltered and hard-hitting questions - catch up on all episodes on their YouTube channel: 👉 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

For the past 2 years, Lung Ha has been one of 6 companies taking part in I'm Me, a research project being run in collaboration between @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Institute for Social Justice and Mind the Gap. www.lungha.com/project/im-me/

You can see all 24 of the portraits by Peter Dibdin of the @lunghatheatre.bsky.social under the tag of #LungHaAt40 here: www.alledinburghtheatre.com/tag/spotligh... Pic: Peter Dibdin

Over the last year we have been proud to work with @lunghatheatre.bsky.social to publish a series of portraits of the company, taken by Peter Dibdin at the @traversetheatre.bsky.social The 24th and final portrait is of Liza Gogoliuk: www.alledinburghtheatre.com/lung-ha-at-4... #LungHaAt40

It may be hard to believe, but today’s Spotlight On… post marks the end of this year-long series! www.lungha.com/2025/04/wrap...

💡 SPOTLIGHT ON.... SERIES 💡 “The most fabulous thing about being an actor is having the freedom to be myself, working with other actors, and having fun and laughing with them.” The final entry in our Spotlight series is Liza Gogoliuk! 👉 www.lungha.com/spotlight-on...

ICYMI: Just TWO DAYS left to express your interest in auditioning to join our Ensemble! Auditions are due to take place on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th May, and full details can be found here: www.lungha.com/2025/04/audi...

There was nothing to say "Alas!" about last night, as 5 of our actors took to the Capital Theatres Studio stage to join Ridiculusmus in Alas! Poor Yorick. John Gorick and Jon Haynes played a variety of roles in this hilarious and philosophical re-imagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

We've had a wonderful and exhilarating day getting ready for our sold-out performance of Alas! Poor Yorick with Ridiculusmus at the Capital Theatres Studio TONIGHT at 7.30pm: 👉 www.lungha.com/alas-poor-yo... 👉 www.capitaltheatres.com/whats-on/all...

www.lungha.com/2025/04/audi... We are pleased to announce that we will shortly be holding auditions for new members of the Lung Ha Theatre Company Ensemble! Please share with anyone who you think may be interested.

“Be your own unique self. There is only one you!” The penultimate entry in our Spotlight On... series by master photographer Peter Dibdin is: Nicola (Nicky) Tuxworth! Click through for Nicky’s full Spotlight profile and her answers to our short Q&A: 👉 www.lungha.com/spotlight-on...

Catch Lung Ha Ensemble members Emma McCaffrey and Gavin Yule taking part in Fast Snail Productions' scratch night this Thursday 3rd of April! Full details along with a link to buy tickets can be found below:

As is very appropriate on this #WorldTheatreDay, we're delighted to announce that we have been invited to perform with renowned theatre company Ridiculusmus as part of the 2025 UK tour of their show Alas! Poor Yorick: www.lungha.com/2025/03/lung...

We're over the moon to share that we have reached our campaign target for @biggive.bsky.social #ArtsForImpact and, with your help, have raised an astonishing £2,000! 🎉 A massive THANK YOU to everyone who has donated and supported our Arts For Impact 2025 campaign: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Just 2 days left to donate to our @biggive.bsky.social #ArtsForImpact campaign! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... Any donation, no matter how big or small, will make a huge impact - not to mention DOUBLE the difference thanks to Big Give's extremely generous match-funding!

Today is #WorldDownSyndromeDay2025, a global awareness day aimed at helping people to understand and support those with Down Syndrome better.

Thank you so much for all of your incredibly generous donations so far to our @biggive.bsky.social Arts For Impact campaign - we are now over halfway towards our target! 🎉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Our @biggive.bsky.social Arts For Impact campaign is now LIVE! For the next week, Lung Ha will be running our own Big Give campaign, which you can donate to NOW at the following link: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... with all donations up to our £1,000 target doubled by Big Give!

💡 SPOTLIGHT ON.... SERIES 💡 “Lung Ha is somewhere I can go and meet my friends, and I feel safe when I'm there.” The next entry in our Spotlight series is Colin McIlveny! Follow the links below for Colin’s full Spotlight profile and answers to our short Q&A: 👉 www.lungha.com/spotlight-on...