David Jays
Writer and editor on theatre, dance. Guardian, London Standard, Dance Gazette, Why Dance Matters podcast.
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Theatre critics & journalists. Mostly UK. Some dance critics too.
@jonathanwatkins.bsky.social
Director • Choreographer • Humaner • Freelancer • AD of @balletqueer.bsky.social https://www.jonathan-watkins.com
@natalie-steed.bsky.social
Audio maker at Rhubarb Rhubarb of podcasts (Folk on Foot, The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, Voices of British Ballet, The Sound of Anger) and radio. Black hearted in Battersea.
@mariephillips.bsky.social
Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor. Free newsletter at mariephillips.beehiiv.com
@seamas.bsky.social
Author, very professional. Buy my extremely good book at www.mammybook.com
@joshspero.ft.com
Wealth editor, Financial Times. I like swimming, classical music and cryptic crosswords. he/him 🏳️🌈 josh.spero@ft.com
@christinasho.bsky.social
law professor, former House and Senate staffer, ex Clinton White House, etc. Health policy and ballet are both embodiment practices. Book: https://tinyurl.com/Normalizing-Right-to-Health
@sachacoward.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention. http://www.unbound.com/books/queer-as-folklore/
@stephenkb.bsky.social
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
@cockneyyiddish.bsky.social
Stories of a forgotten London subculture with presenters Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs. cockneyyiddish.org New episodes weekly. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Artwork by Jeremy Richardson.
@jim.londoncentric.media
Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
jester of goodwill (journalist, author, radio person, etc) marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
@chrisabennion.bsky.social
welsh person. freelance arts journalist. ex TV and Radio Editor at The Telegraph. ex TV and theatre for The Times. mainly nonsense on here.
@jameslever.bsky.social
Theatre PR boy by day, crime solving debutant by night and on weekends. The ginger Marple of Tulse Hill
@katemorleypr.bsky.social
Leading PR agency specialising in theatre and personal representation. Also on instagram @kate_morleypr
@mrbrianlogan.bsky.social
Palace/DUFC fan. AD of A Play, a Pie and a Pint. Guardian comedy person. Tidier-up after children.
@isaacbutler.bsky.social
Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
@shahidiqbalkhan.bsky.social
Playwright Bio: https://shorturl.at/cCEO6 Rep'd by Colin Blumenau at The Production Exchange
@samanthaellis.bsky.social
Writer of books - How to be a Heroine; Take Courage & Chopping Onions on my Heart - & plays - How to Date a Feminist. www.samanthaellis.me.uk 🧿
@markcousinsfilm.bsky.social
Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/Bigger than The Shining http://www.markcousins.org
@newyorker.com
Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
@naomialderman.bsky.social
I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
@lgions.bsky.social
she/they | award winning uk illustrator and comic artist/colourist | On Starlit Shores, Fall 2025 (Pre-Order https://bio.site/lgions) ✨ contact - becky.glendining@gmail.com | Rep'd by Paige Terlip. | 🚫 AI or NFT
@wendyide.bsky.social
Film critic for The Observer, Screen International. Usually can be found at a film festival. Parent. Brummie-born S E Londoner.
@nigella.bsky.social
Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
@dougrintoul.bsky.social
Suffolk born Essex raised he/him queer woke theatre-maker and CEO/Artistic Director New Wolsey Theatre. Chair We Are Ipswich. Views my own.
@deathbybadger.bsky.social
dire homosexual 🏳️🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- One Page RPGS 🎲 (www.patreon.com/deathbybadger) - 🏠 Manchester, UK https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire
@evincentelli.bsky.social
Bylines: The New York Times, The Washington Post and more. Co-host Marks & Vincentelli podcast. Latest book: "The Art and Making of Arcane" elisabeth@evincentelli.com
@alisoncroggon.bsky.social
I write words. Award-winning poet, novelist, critic, theatre writer. Arts editor The Saturday Paper. She/her. Living on unceded Yalukit-Willam Country. http://www.alisoncroggon.com/
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@davidjcoates.bsky.social
Cultural historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Researching theatre in the long nineteenth century and queer theatre histories. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Regular theatre, exhibition and museum visitor. Chocoholic 🍫
@tommofowler.bsky.social
Dramaturg and director. New Works Associate @liveveryplay.bsky.social. Previously Women’s Prize for Playwriting.
@markludmon.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, editor & ghostwriter, writing on theatre, drinks, bars etc. Theatre studies MA from Central School of Speech & Drama. Early modern literature & history postgrad. 🌈 he/him
@rickydukes.bsky.social
Theatre director, practitioner, teacher & artistic director (@lazarustheatre.bsky.social) from the West Midlands living in Greenwich, London. Love big epic theatre, big tea drinker.
@ellenejones.bsky.social
Journalist and broadcaster (Guardian, Observer, Empire, Esquire, Elle etc) Author of 'SCREEN DEEP: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world'(Faber, 2024, linktr.ee/Screen_Deep); Co-host of SCREENSHOT on BBC Radio 4 and wherever you get your pods
@wildtwin.bsky.social
Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer. Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books) Wild Twin was published by Little Toller on 18th Sept
@suchmayer.bsky.social
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. TRUTH & DARE out now with @cipherpress.bsky.social 💘 SPACE CRONE (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 💜 Website & newsletter: somayer.net.
@casparsalmon.bsky.social
Writer, beauty queen, haver of takes. "A tiny man" - John Cleese
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
London Review Bookshop. 20,000 titles on two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
@stewartwpringle.bsky.social
writer here and there, currently in residence at the RSC, rep: Jonathan Kinnersley @ The Agency. From the wilds of Northumberland. Recent tortoise acquirer.