IFTR 2025, Cologne

Preparations underway for my talk at #iftr2025 🌈⚖️

A screenshot of IFTR’s website, on which my paper is promoted, titled: “Carnivalizing Show Trials: SHOW. TRIAL. and the pursuit of queer justice through the body of a judge.”

Fully jazzed to get the opportunity to discuss SHOW.TRIAL. at this year’s IFTR. It marks the first time I debate my own work at a conference - and I truly can’t wait to hear people’s thoughts about it!
See you soon Cologne x

Will be at King’s College London for a couple of weeks in June: any theatre/performance (beyond the west end), exhibitions, events, or queers I should know about? Xx

In rehearsal

From Jo Clifford’s sublime play “The Gospel according to Jesus, Queen of Heaven”:

I stand with you, with love and compassion, today as always, as you have been standing with me.

You, my TRANS, NB, GNC siblings, consistently teach me the most valuable lessons about my queerness. That is why the fear you, and us: because we cracked the code of the human experience, and we pass this knowledge on to the rest of our family.

Goodbye to the curious, intelligent, vibrant, mischievous students of the Spring ’25 Theatre and Society seminar

“Imagine a Review”
My review of “In Praise of Sideways: Storytelling journeys of the Ruth Kanner Theatre Group” (edited by Adi Chawin and Richard Gough) became one of my most personal published pieces.

Read here (or DM for access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The final seminar of the semester. I’ll miss my brilliant students!

Some of the words that came up in a discussion of “They Shoot Horses” (Phil Collins, 2004): endurance, exoticism, agency, authenticity, authority, exploitation, violence, colonialism, resistance, exhaustion, intimacy, joy… these students are just brilliant!

A sneak preview from the interview I conducted with the fabulous artist duo Blaue&Poppy for Theater Magazine about their (our?) practice and the concerns of Post-Truth

In today’s seminar, I invited the student to cross-examine me as a way to think through participatory practices in performance

6. "Verbatim Theatre Methodologies for Community-Engaged Practice: Perspectives from Australian theatre" written by Sarah Peters and David Burton, published by Routledge (2024) - review by Caroline Wake

5. "Pakistan Desires: Queer futures elsewhere" edited by Omar Kasmani, published by Duke University Press (2023) - review by Aziz Sohail

4. "Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian Theatre" written by María del Pilar Chouza-Calo, Esther Fernández and Jonathan Thacker, published by Liverpool University Press (2023) - review by Julio Vélez Sainz

3. "Realisms in East Asian Performance" written by Jessica Nakamura and Katherine Saltzman-Li, published by University of Michigan Press (2023) - review by Hansol Oh

2."Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political performance and Victorian social reform" written by Tracy C. Davis, published by Cambridge University Press & Assessment (2023) - review by Jennifer DeVere Brody

I invite you to engage with this brilliant collection of titles:
1. "Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and differential movement in African diasporic performance" written by Hershini Bhana Young, published by New York University Press (2023) - review by Dotun Ayobade

The Reviews section for issue 29.1 of Performance Research Journal themed "On Repertoire" (edited by Mischa Twitchin), is particularly dear to me. Here's why.
All available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprs20/2...

Just me and my pal Charles Hepburn

#ceasefire #WisławaSzymborska

And posting them! 😂

Being a good student at the teacher-training session

Meet your new drama teacher

This is the kind of relatable content this app needs

That’s how I feel ahead of 2025

There is nothing like the first few hours of excitement & dread when you’re sitting down to write a new article that was accepted for publication (about your own work!). Was it as I wanted it to be? Was it as I remember it? Was it any good? Was I too exposed? Will I be now?

Will never forget my first Panto! Had an absolute blast at the brilliant @trontheatre.bsky.social ‘s Peter Panto and the Incredible Stinkerbell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️