Music fan and author A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan, Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story, and Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Life of Ian Dury. Norwich City fan.
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Fiona McQuarrie, contributing writer for Record Collector, Shindig!, and PopMatters. Author of three books about music. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE now available from J-Card Press https://linktr.ee/writingonmusic
Account created for the 2026 monthly XTC Listening Parties. Run by @mealygarage.bsky.social.
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I improvise. I open space, I facilitate. I make unforgettable theatre, amongst others. Director My Neighbour Totoro.
Artistic Director @ www.improbable.co.uk
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Singer, songwriter, musician, transport fan. Member of The Delgados. Brand new album 'Begging The Night To Take Hold' is out now. Order at https://bio.to/EmmaPollock.
The Scottish Society of Playwrights (SSP) develops and promotes the interests and craft of professional playwrights and playwriting within Scottish theatre.
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Play publishers for over 100 years, with books on acting, theatre performance and production. An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Writer, editor, musician, avid cyclist, proud libtard, survivor. Father of two great kids, stepdad to one. Lover of a beautiful woman. Memento mori.
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Freelance Journalist, Writer, Comedian, Green Party Councillor, Exeter. Email me: jamesbanyardwriter@outlook.com Portfolio: https://jamesbanyardwriter.wordpress.com Imprint https://tinyurl.com/3aztmwju Substack: https://pitchfailclub.substack.com/
Author (occasional). Songwriter & musician (amateur). Fan of The Beatles, XTC, Squeeze, and lots of telly.
NEW BOOK: Jockula (out May 2026) https://www.books2read.com/jockula.
I write mostly about music and live events here: https://www.gayleramage.co.uk
Arts writer, MA Magazine Journalism student, theatre critic. she/her
BBC Wales journalist, weather presenter and DJ. Former TV newsreader and music reporter for Radio 1 and 2. Posts from me...not the BBC.
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Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
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Sometime actor, full time autism Mummy, lover of theatre, film. music and comedy.
Son, brother, husband, father, friend. Into all music, especially ambient/electronic/drone/microtonal/field; iOS music production; cats; coffee.
Wide music taste. Examples being; The Beatles, Yes, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Tears for fears, Ride, Talk Talk, Faith no more, Sparks, Marillion and XTC.
Love a good story. Work in comms.
Play & coach for Newcastle Roller Derby.
Theatre critic. Words in The Stage, The Fence, Broadway World, The Scotsman, The Critic. Grade 6 Trumpet.
writes & directs theatre & film / ad + exec producer of performance, artistic development initiative + Glasgow rehearsal space _and friends / don't make me sing
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Freelance theatre director + playwright + furby buddy
We make devised theatre and contemporary circus in Scotland.
STUNTMAN Tour 2025, on sale now 💥
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"End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
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Central Scotland's leading arts venue. A hub for all genres of cultural events, including exhibitions, creative classes & our very own Filmhouse.
Performer. Writer. Poet. Represented by Infinity Artists. 🥚🐺🎤
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Performance artist, composer, cellist, dancer, theatre maker
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Experienced Arts Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the performing arts industry. Dedicated to the advancement of the UK arts sector and developing people in industry.
Scotland's Theatre in the Hills ⛰️
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Press + comms at A Play, A Pie and A Pint.
Usually found drinking oat lattes and in despair.
Palace/DUFC fan. AD of A Play, a Pie and a Pint. Guardian comedy person. Tidier-up after children.
Edinburgh-based theatre company
Media Officer at Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, formerly Penguin Random House. Excited about theatre, books, music & more. All views my own.
Lighting Designer. (he/him)
Represented by BBA Management.
https://www.simonwilkinson.net
Playwright.
Dancing Shoes at The Traverse from 04/12-20/12.
A volunteer-run group to support theatre directors working professionally in Scotland.
Immersive experiences, installations and performance art by Edinburgh-based artists Jen McGregor and Mark Bolsover.
Central to local cultural life in Perth, Scotland for 125 years, Perth Theatre and Concert Hall create life affirming, shared experiences in the performing arts.
Stellar Quines creates theatre, supports creatives and engages communities, all with the aim of achieving greater equality.
Award-winning playwright, director & performer // Scottish // Ecofeminist // Resident Writer @trontheatre.bsky.social // 2024 Playwright in Residence @traversetheatre.bsky.social with @iashedinburgh.bsky.social // Up next: Alright Sunshine, Tron Theatre
Professor of Light and Performance. Scenography, Audience Experience, XR. #CFC Views my own.
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Glasgow's iconic lunchtime theatre company. UK’s most prolific producer of new writing, 600+ plays and counting 🎭🥧🍻
Theatre director based in Edinburgh. Raised on the Brazil-Uruguay border, and this is important.
Freelance theatre journalist and podcast maker. Usually found at the theatre, cycling around London, or playing dodgy train station pianos across the country 🎙️🎭🇺🇦
Everything Voice/Singer/Songwriter/Choir leader/Voice Coach
Vejle, Jutland - Danmark, DK. Født 4. juni 1965.
Songwriter - soundcloud.com/svanemand
Freakin' fond of Fab4s&Foos; HüskerDüs&Heartaches.
Not particularly fond of Capitalist Civiolentlysation.
Scottish theatre company. Based in Glasgow. Producer of short plays. Part of the collective at Theatre 118.
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Director of Communications and External Affairs at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Lover of the performing arts. Mother to two, wife to one, friend to many
Independent music promotor, artist manager.
www.scarybiscuits.com
Follower of Swindon Town Football Club and a XTC fan
Magazines, drumming, cycling and dogs. Not necessarily in that order.
Playful, interactive, clown theatre for babies, children and young people. Based in Scotland.
Proud to be Perth Theatre's Children's Theatre Company in Residence.
Founded 1980, promoted the best of new work from Wales 1996-2019, reimagined in 2025 by @mrtoasterlab as a home for unique experiments on the fringe.
Theatre maker ,designer, artist and scribbler of endless notes
Craft & Graft. Multi-Award-Winning Director, Actor, Fight Director, Writer. PhD Candidate LJMU. Certified Teacher BASSC.
Known for: Owning Shakespeare Podcast, Shakespeare Deck, Illuminated Text, The Show Must Go Online, Stage Fight Scotland
Producing and touring theatre.
Led by Gillian Garrity and Margaret-Anne O’Donnell.
Next Up Death of a Salesman, Spring 25, UK
www.rawmaterialarts.com
Son of Hugh & June, Brother of Paul,Rachel,Sue & Cathy, Dad to Emily, Cat Dad to Boots, Partner to Eve
Photographer, Hypnotherapist, Accountant, Beethoven-the-dog's slave, Retailer of Jewellery & Gifts.
Spastic Minnow or Nonsuch Ned or Suchtic MinNed, call me what you like. XTC fan, Admin of the still clinging on Back Porch free forum. Sysop of the Tenchi Muyo Fandom Wiki... although I may not talk about that much here. Music, anime, cats, off humor.
Writer, broadcaster, optimist. FRHistS. Books: Blood Legacy: slavery & my family's part in it. Stiff Upper Lip: abuse in Britain's elite schools. BBC Radio 4's In Dark Corners.
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Member of Terry & the Chalkmen. Old git, happy to chat about good things like: XTC; prog rock; Crowded House; music in general; London gigs; Architecture; Comedy; Books; TV; Man Utd
Left of centre, pro-European
Listening to a new (to me) album, every day
Championing grassroots live performance worldwide 🎭🍺 Platform for the underrepresented and unheard.
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CEO of Starcatchers, potential PhD student, interested in children’s rights, babies’ rights, personal views here
Head of Marketing at Imaginate which produces the fabulous Edinburgh International Children’s Festival every May. @edchildrensfest.bsky.social
Developing, presenting & celebrating the best children’s theatre and dance from around the world.
SURGE runs projects to develop street arts, physical theatre and circus in Scotland.
We also run SURGE Festival, our annual event, which brings new Scottish work and cutting edge international performances to the streets of Glasgow.
self-confessed softy - artist - freelance arts marketing/PR & Third Sector champion. Proud to work in the arts
Registered in Brighouse for tax purposes. He/they. "The man who gave us Fred Dinenage's 3ft long egg" - (@ChinnyVision)
We provide the best in news, reviews, interviews and commentary on what's happening in theatre, arts & culture across the UK and Ireland
We champion, develop and present animated film, puppetry and visual theatre in Scotland and internationally.
Producers of Manipulate Festival: 12 - 15 Feb 2025 🌙
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Publicity, consultancy and advocacy for culture and activism – let’s tell your story 📖
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Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
The Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland are organised annually by the theatre critics of Scotland to celebrate the best of Scottish theatre.
CEO of The List Magazine which has been ‘helping people get a life’ since 1985.
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Scotland's leading theatre company for actors and theatre makers with a learning disability and autism.
https://www.lungha.com/
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Musician, composer and guitar player at Camper Van Beethoven and Monks of Doom.
