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Martha Loader

@marthaloader.bsky.social
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Writer, producer, actor. Ipswich Genesis Foundation and Almeida Theatre playwright New Wolsey Theatre associate Channel4 Screenwriting '24 BBC Voices '24 Judges Award at Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022 Stage Debut Awards nominee 2024

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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I'm honoured to be one of the ambassadors for Ipswich #CityofCulture2029. This is a huge opportunity for my hometown and it would be incredible to see it achieve City of Culture in 2029. Come on Ippy! #BackTheBid, #BigUpTheBid, #Ipswich2029
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Nick Hern Books @nickhernbooks.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
As May draws to a close, we’re taking a moment to look back at the eleven brilliant plays we’ve published this month! 🎭 Learn more about them – along with the rest of our recent publications – on our website: nickhernbooks.co.uk/new-titles
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Nick Hern Books @nickhernbooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
'A rallying call of courage for us all' @theguardian.com 'Rich' @thestage.co.uk Albatross by NHB author Martha Loader is now touring the UK, produced by Menagerie Theatre. Get your playscript copies at the venue or online: nickhernbooks.co.uk/albatross
Top photo: Caroline Rippin and Agnes Lillis in Albatross at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. Photo by Ashley Day. Bottom photo: Playscript cover of Albatross by Martha Loader.
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Menagerie Theatre Company @menagerietheatre.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Delighted to announce our production and tour of 'Albatross' by award-winning writer @marthaloader.bsky.social. A play about love in the age of climate catastrophe, about deep family ties, about dreams deferred and surprise gifts. Full tour details: www.menagerie.uk.com
'Albatross' by Martha Loader - on tour in 2026.  A woman dressed in active outdoor wear places a large box on the floor of her mother's kitchen.
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Thanks Ben x
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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 11/12/2025
Playwright Martha Loader has been named winner of the 2025 George Devine Award, giving her £15,000 to support the writing of her next play. Read more 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/mar...
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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 25/11/2025
The George Devine Award for new writing has unveiled its 2025 shortlist, with four writers in contention for the prize. Read more 👇
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George Devine Award unveils shortlist of four writers
The George Devine Award for new writing has unveiled its 2025 shortlist, with four writers in contention for the prize
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Ben Musgrave @ben-musgrave.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Fantastic news, @marthaloader.bsky.social The Town is such a brilliant play (and best wishes to the everyone else on the shortlist too).
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Thank you thank you!
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WestEndTheatre.com @westendtheatre.com · 19/11/2025
Four shortlisted plays have been announced for this year's #GeorgeDevineAward 2025 for new writing 🔗 www.westendtheatre.com/323871/news/... Bad Seed by #AsmaraGabrielle; Citizens of Umi by #YasminJoseph; The Town by #MarthaLoader; and The Knot by #IslavanTricht #WestEndTheatre #LondonTheatre
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George Devine Award 2025 shortlist of playwrights announced | West End Theatre
Four shortlisted plays have been announced for this year's George Devine Award 2025.
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Creative UK @creativeuk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export. At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined. 🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90
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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 07/10/2025
Theatre organisations from across East Anglia have joined together to create a network aimed at tackling the challenges of mid-scale touring. 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/the...
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Georgy Jamieson @georgyjamieson.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Eastern Angles Need Your Local Stories For Their Latest Project Eastern Angles are reaching out to people in Ipswich to help their latest creative project, Oh! What a Wonderful Westgate. The project will be a collection of audio stories, poems and songs that will recount the history of the…
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Eastern Angles Need Your Local Stories For Their Latest Project
Eastern Angles are reaching out to people in Ipswich to help their latest creative project, Oh! What a Wonderful Westgate. The project will be a collection of audio stories, poems and songs that will recount the history of the Westgate ward in Ipswich. People are being asked to submit their stories inspired by the town, it could be its history, your experience of living in Ipswich, its nature, the people, shops, weather, transport, animals, or home, whatever fires your imagination about Ipswich in 2025. Stories can be about the things that bring you joy, fascinate you and move you, or maybe you are facing a challenge that you might want to highlight.
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dermot daly @dermotdaly.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
‘Being Black and British: Before During and After Drama School’ is released on September 22 but is available to pre-order from TODAY. Pre-order now - directly from the publisher on the link, your favourite bookshop, or your institutional or local library. Launch event(s) to be shared…
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Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School
Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School is about being Black, being British and being an actor before, during and after training. Written by Black writers working in and around ...
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Theatre503 @theatre503.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
📣 3 days left! 😱 Apply for the 503Five now: buff.ly/tcdzSCl ✨ 📸 Rotterdam, Piers Foley Photography
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Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
@mercurytheatre.bsky.social Script Submissions are now open. Email the first 30 pages to script.submissions@mercurytheatre.co.uk by Sun 31 Aug. #playwrights #scriptwriters #theatresky please share. www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/taking-part/...
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Theatre Script Submissions - Mercury Theatre Colchester
The Mercury Theatre is dedicated to finding, supporting, and producing the next generation of playwrights based in the East of England.
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
And really fun to find a giant Laura Hanna in the RX too!
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Such a brilliant night on Monday at #BruntwoodPrizeforPlaywriting celebrating this incredible shortlist of writers. Huge congratulations to the winners and whole shortlist. I can’t wait to see your plays on our stages soon!
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Mercury Theatre Colchester @mercurytheatre.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Our next Mercury Original has been written by Suffolk-based writer Tassa Deparis. A recent graduate of the Mercury Theatre Writers Programme in association with Paines Plough, Tassa is currently under commission to New Wolsey Theatre and HighTide where she is Associate Artist. buff.ly/OZ17ur5
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HighTide @hightidetheatre.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
📣 Calling all East of England Playwrights 📣 Meet our Artistic Director! Join Titilola Dawudu at one of our upcoming Playwrights' East sessions for a creative workshop and Q&A. Tue 22 July, 6.30pm - 8.30pm at Eastern Angles or Wed 23 July, 6.30pm - 8.30pm online tinyurl.com/yx3u9te2
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It’s SO good!
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
So delighted to get my amazing friend #EmmaSwan’s first book through the post from @waterstones.bsky.social. #CruiseShipKid is going to be huge! Great characters, unique setting, and a mystery to solve onboard. Fun for all the family #Booksky
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WestEndTheatre.com @westendtheatre.com · 05/06/2025
Almeida Theatre appoints Dominic Cooke as new Artistic Director Read more: www.westendtheatre.com/295466/news/... Dominic Cooke (Mrs Warren’s Profession; Hello, Dolly!; Follies) succeeds Rupert Goold (Dear England; Patriots) the Almeida Theatre #AlmeidaTheatre #DominicCooke #RupertGoold
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Almeida Theatre appoints Dominic Cooke as new Artistic Director | West End Theatre
The Almeida Theatre in London has announced that Dominic Cooke will be its new Artistic Director, replacing Rupert Goold.
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Such a great night watching #Weer from the incredible Natalie Palamides tonight at the new, very shiny Soho Theatre Walthamstow. What a way to kick off their programme. As a romcom fiend, this was pure joy 🤩
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Brilliant night at #NoisesOff at #NewWolseyTheatre last night. Super slickly directed by the fabulous @dougrintoul.bsky.social. Highly choreographed mayhem. What a joy! Get your tickets now… www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/events/noise...
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Noises Off - New Wolsey Theatre
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Really looking forward to this tonight!
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Looking forward to seeing Weer here next week!
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Such a dream to be repped by the brilliant Mark and Lily at Curtis Brown. I feel very lucky to get to work with them both ✏️ www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/marth...
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Looking forward to this!
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Off to #INKFestival25 today to run this workshop (and generally be part of the festival festivities!) Only 2 tickets left, so come along 1-2:30 at Halesworth Library 🖊️ www.inkfestival.org/events/how-t...
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How to get Noticed - Martha Loader — INK
Join Martha Loader for a practical workshop on how to get your play noticed by the industry. From script competitions to approaching new writing theatres, how can you make your work stand out from the...
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
www.inkfestival.org/whats-on-ink
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What's On — INK
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Looking forward to #INKFestival 24-27 April. I’m running a workshop on Saturday 26th - ‘How to get your play noticed’. It’ll be fun and practical so hope to see people there! www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/hal...
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Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📣 Applications closing soon! Supporting exceptional female and non-binary playwrights, the winning play will receive £20,000 and the option for us to co-produce the play with @ekpshows.bsky.social and @painesplough.bsky.social Submissions close on Tue 22 April 👉 womensprizeforplaywriting.co.uk
The Women's Prize for Playwriting, Submissions must close Tues 22 April, 5pm
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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 03/04/2025
Four of my plays have been used unlicensed by Meta to train their planet-eating plagiarism engine. Please register your disgust here:
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Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Happy #WorldTheatreDay! Here are a few joyous theatre moments from the past year…
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Having been researching ‘restorative justice’ for my own work, it was exciting to see James Graham tackle it with such sensitivity and humour in ‘Punch’ at YV. Especially moving when the audience broke into spontaneous applause after one particular scene. Exciting to see theatre have such resonance
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HighTide @hightidetheatre.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Could you be our new Artistic Director/CEO? Following the news that Clare Slater will step down this summer, we're pleased to announce that recruitment is now live. Applications close Friday 11 April. Full details: hightide.org.uk/about-high-t...
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Wahoo! Congratulations. Such a brilliant project
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Clare has been a force of nature in the East and she will be sorely missed around here. I couldn't be more grateful to her for her support and friendship over the past few years. She and the whole @hightidetheatre.bsky.social team have been a dream to work with. The NT are lucky to have her!
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
So nice to get down to Future Female Society’s event for International Women’s Day yesterday at @suffolkarchives.bsky.social. A brilliant day of celebration and discussion
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Such a treat to catch A Tryal of Witches at Theatre Royal BSE on Friday night. Brilliantly directed by @owencl.bsky.social and written by Tallulah Brown. It’s poetic, haunting and very timely
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Ahh so nice you were back! And with Josie too 😍
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Karen Goddard @karengoddard.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I’m researching a new play based on the experiences of Felixstowe dock workers. The project is supported by @suffolkcc & @easternangles. If you or someone you know would like to share a story, please do get in touch via my website karengoddard.net 👍
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Day 20 - Wethouse, Paddy Campbell. Red Stitch, Melbourne 2015
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Anatomy of a Suicide, Alice Birch. Royal Court, 2017
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Got my new bible through the post this morning. Can’t wait to start reading this by the brilliant @philipshelley1.bsky.social
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Loved Ballet Shoes!!
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Day 18 - Drink Rum with Expats, Sh!t Theatre. Norwich Arts Centre, 2020
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Martha Loader @marthaloader.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So good wasn’t it?!
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Theatres Trust @theatrestrust.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
💚 Our £16k grant supports New Wolsey Theatre with sustainability work including installing LEDs and sensors backstage 🎂 It is part of a larger scheme aiming to achieve a range of decarbonisation improvements across the building by its 50th anniversary in 2029
Large audience for a performance outside the New Wolsey Theatre
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