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Trans theatremaker from the UK. I also like thinking about human-computer interactions.

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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The article: www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/08...
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Revealed: The review website secretly owned by a Fringe publicist : News 2025 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
Revealed: The review website secretly owned by a Fringe publicist - Conflict of interest row over top PR’s links to Entertainment Now
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
director here. Thank you so much for this shoutout. the cast/crew whatsapp has been pinging like mad from the reviews all day, then they finished the show and saw you had posted as well!
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Touretteshero @touretteshero.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
My Job Hasn’t Changed, My Disability Hasn’t Changed, So Why Has My Support Changed? www.touretteshero.com/2025/06/20/m...
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My Job Hasn’t Changed, My Disability Hasn’t Changed, So Why Has My Support Changed?
Shortly before my emergency pacemaker operation at the end of March, I had a meeting with a couple of my colleagues to talk about what should happen to our company if I didn’t survive the procedure. T...
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We have sold 300 tickets for this so far. Highly reccomend booking soon!
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The comedy show I co-create got a fantastic writeup in @centralbylines.co.uk centralbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/th...
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Entering Club Wormhole’s alternative comedy community
Club Wormhole's Nottingham-based comedy venue provides both laughter and community
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Polis Loizou 🐺🎃 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Who's coming to see @theabigailthorn.bsky.social's queer Shakespeare reworking THE PRINCE at Lace Market Theatre in Nottingham this July? 😍🏳️‍🌈 lacemarkettheatre.co.uk/LaceMarketTh...
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The Prince - The Lace Market Theatre
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I didn't understand the actual joke for a second and thought this was was some new playwright at the royal court that I hadn't heard of
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
If it helps, humans have been duped by this kind of thing for at least the last 400 years. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_m...
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Tulip mania - Wikipedia
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Book now to see Abigail Thorn's The Prince! Mon 21st to Sat 26th July. There are performances every night at 7:30pm and an additional 2:30pm performance on Saturday. Tickets are £14 standard, and £12 concession. lacemarkettheatre.co.uk/LaceMarketTh... #trans #transgender #queer #lgbtqia+
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The Prince - The Lace Market Theatre
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I tried to write a parody response like 'the wokerati would cancel numberwang' but I just know Gl1nner has probably already said something like this already
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne
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Ryan Ken @ryankenacts.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Just a casual conversation between spouses on reality television
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Maybe it's just straight to the point
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
WHICH FOOTBALL TEAM FANBASE IS THE MOST TRANSGENDER? Because the news is miserable at the moment, I decided to be a bit silly Fill in the form with the football team you support. The most popular club gets the title of “Most Transgender Football Club” next season 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A graphic that says “which football team is the most transgender? A silly competition by Arthur”
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Courtney Love Lies Bleeding 🫦 @hexadecibelle.fyi · 24/04/2025
"i never heard of autism growing up"
H.G.WELLS, THE ENGLISH NOVELIST PLAYING AN INDOOR WARGAME

(From a Drawing by S. Begg in the Illustrated London News)

"Mr. Wells has developed his game so that the country over which the campaign is to be fought is laid out in any desired manner, with the aid of branches of shrubs as trees, with cardboard bridges, rocks, chalked-out rivers, streams and fords, cardboard forts, barracks, houses, and what not; there are employed leaden infantrymen and cavalrymen, and guns firing wooden cylinders about an inch long, capable of hitting a toy soldiers nine times out of ten at a distance of nine yards, and having a screw adjustment for elevation and depression. There are strict rules governing the combat. Before the battle begins, the country is divided by the drawing of a curtain across it for a short time, so that the general of each opposing army may dispose of his forces without the enemy's being aware of that disposition. Then the curtains are drawn back and the campaign begins. All moves of men and guns are timed. An infantryman moves not more than a foot at a time, a cavalryman not more than two feet, and a gun, according to whether cavalry or infantry are with it, from one to two feet. Mr. Wells is seen on the left of the drawing, taking a measurement with a length of string, to determine the distance some of his forces may move. On the right and left are seen the curtains for dividing the country before beginning the game."
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Nottingham Against Transphobia @againsttransphobia.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
@transsupportchezzy.bsky.social are putting together their first protest. If you can make it show them some support.
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Trying to sleep but fully losing my shit over Louis Theroux telling a story about a lesbian pigeon who learns to take up space www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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CBeebies Bedtime Stories - Peggy the Always Sorry Pigeon - BBC Sounds
Louis Theroux tells the story of Peggy, the pigeon who can't stop saying sorry.
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Trans Support Chesterfield @transsupportchezzy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Join us in Chesterfield town center to make our voices heard! #TransRightsareHumanRights
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Ok, except one of the major themes of the play is about how trans people and cis people relate to each other. So forgive me for being horrendously boring but I did cast trans people as the trans characters. We also had many trans people audition for cis characters, which was encouraged.
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
⭐How to speak up, while trans!⭐ A crash course in public speaking for trans people. How to speak loudly, clearly and SAFELY at a protest. improvlaurie.co.uk/blg-speakup/
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How To Speak Up While Trans • Laurie Owen's Notes
Theatre portfolio and personal journal for Laurie Owen. From here you can see my current productions, and read my writing.
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Grant White @grantwhite.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Reminder Starmer used the murder of Brianna Ghey to attack Sunak. He was quite happy to acknowledge trans people when he needed a disposable attack line, the spineless coward.
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
and the same sorts of people say this means that trans people are horrible vandals who are attacking women and we deserve to have our human rights taken away. Funny that!!! (3/3)
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
and it should never have been built, and the money should have gone on real people, BUT ALSO the Brian Clough statue got a bit of paint on it during the trans rights protest, (2/3)
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The stance on women and statues in Nottingham is so fucking confusing. Right wing reactionaries say that the new Standing in This Place statue, celebrating the role of women in Nottingham's history, was a total waste of money (1/3)
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So far I have contacted @whatthetrans.com , but there must be more!
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Anyone know of any trans/LGBTQIA+ podcasts that focus on performing arts, or interviews w artists? Looking to publicise my upcoming production of trans play The Prince, which is the second ever UK staging of it, and only the third staging internationally. #theater #theatre #trans #queer #lgbtqia+
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Trans Pride Notts @transpridenotts.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Hundreds of people now protesting in the centre of Nottingham and showing the world that we will not be silenced!!
Protest featuring sign saying "Dykes for Dolls" on a trans flag
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
~500 people at the trans rights protest in Nottingham ##TransRightsAreHumanRights
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MonstrousJaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Nottingham standing up for #TransRights Great to see hundreds of trans folks and allies in the sunshine. @ouizzi.bsky.social
A picture of the crowd supporting tran rights at a rally in front of the Brian Clough statue in Nottingham.

Hundreds of beautiful trans folks and allies are waving banners and flags under a blue, cloudless sky.
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
NEW BLOG: The Theatre Needs Trans People, and Trans People Need The Theatre - being a trans person directing a play about trans people at a time when your country's government just decided to screw over trans people is...a lot. improvlaurie.co.uk/blg-lovelett...
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The theatre needs trans people, and trans people need the theatre • Laurie Owen's Notes
Theatre portfolio and personal journal for Laurie Owen. From here you can see my current productions, and read my writing.
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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Transphobe "rally" with twelve miserable looking old women: Front page coverage for weeks, headlines screaming triumph for women and will reverberate through history. 10s of thousands from all walks of life take over Parliament Square: Buried below puff piece about PR stunt for some dumb robot.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 19/04/2025
Thousands of people rallied in central London in support of trans rights, after a landmark court ruling on the definition of a "woman"
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Trans rights supporters rally outside UK parliament
Thousands of people rallied in central London in support of trans rights, after a landmark court ruling on the definition of a "woman".
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 19/04/2025
Here is the speech I gave at the protest today (edited down to fit on Bluesky). Thank you to everyone who showed up today. Together, we will win.
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Victoria Stuart @persagen.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Thousands gather in London to support trans rights following UK ruling over definition of woman apnews.com/article/brit... 🇬🇧 🇺🇲 #Christofascism #transgenocide 🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #Trumpism #Transgenocide 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights mastodon.social/@persagen/11...
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Thousands gather in London to support trans rights following UK ruling over definition of woman
Thousands of trans rights protesters gathered in central London, days after the U.K.‘s Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from...
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Family game night, my sister and brother in law have taught my parents Catan, and my mum has decided to rp as a mafia boss, saying things like 'trade with me now or it will be worse for you later' and giving free resource cards out and then emotionally blackmailing us about it
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Well, as I’m sure you all know, we mark something important today. Yes: happy 45th anniversary of the thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony to all who celebrate
Old newspaper cutting: a photo of some people standing around for some reason, plus text: PETERBOROUGH STANDARD — Friday, April 18th, 1980
The memories live on
CROWLAND’S Silver Jubilee committee was finally wound up on Thursday evening with a presentation ceremony at the library..
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The Jubilee fund,. described by chairman Frank Parnet s ‘one remony atremony are sony at the library.
The jubremony at the library.
Tremony at remony at the library.
Thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library.
Theremony at the library.
The Jubilee fund, described by chairman, Frank Premony rremony at the remony aremony at the libremony atremony at tremony at the library.
Tremorremony at the library.remony at the library. The Jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Parnell as ‘one of the finest efforts in Lincolnshire’, fn he latched onto a through ball. Although be was hauled down by the keeper he still managed to stroke the ball home.
But for the second week running Durant had to leave the field injured, this time suffering eye trouble.
The winning goal was another 25-yard shot — again from Blackstones’ central defender — coming from their second chance of the game.
Gary Cooper, recently signed from Old Boys, had a good debut.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Quite right!! When I was there age l we used to Blockbuster skinned knees JUST A PLASTER kids these days have no idea sixpence & four shillings why drinking from the hosepipe and back before tea NOT RACIST and then we’d all have a wank over the queen not an avocado phone in sight
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Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Poem I wrote a while back, 'Bodily Fluids', first published in The North
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Nottingham woman set to be deported on Good Friday over “admin error”
Facing deportation on Good Friday, a Nottingham woman battles a Home Office error that split her from her sister and risks her safety
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This Sunday, 12pm, at The Brian Clough Statue, Nottingham Against Transphobia will protest the naked prejudice of the Supreme Court. #trans #transgender #uk #LGBTQIA+ #nottingham
This Sunday, 12pm, at The Brian Clough Statue, Nottingham Against Transphobia will protest the naked prejudice of the Supreme Court.
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Nottingham Against Transphobia @againsttransphobia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This Sunday, 12pm @the Brian Clough Sunday, 12pm Statue. Nottingham Against Transphobia will protest the naked prejudice of the Supreme Court
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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
You don’t steal something you think is worthless.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 17/04/2025
“Fuck your single-sex spaces and fuck your Supreme Court. If I see you calling the police on a trans person in a public restroom I will personally flush your phone down the bog whilst pretending it’s Wes Streeting’s head.”
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Normally rule-following autistic says fuck transphobic laws
A cisgender autistic woman who is generally so law abiding she once performed a citizen’s arrest on herself for jaywalking will not acknowledge any evil transphobic legislation, it has been confirmed....
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Because their only method of communication is dogwhistles.
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Lace Market Theatre, Nottingham. Tickets are on sale! lacemarkettheatre.co.uk/LaceMarketTh...
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The Prince - The Lace Market Theatre
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improvlaurie.co.uk @riewarden.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Nearly finished auditions this week for upcoming production of The Prince by Abigail Thorn. It's been a hard few days but seeing so many trans folks show up to my little local amateur theatre was incredible. Gutted theres only three parts for trans women because all auditionees have been a delight.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 17/04/2025
Breaking news Trans Kids Deserve Better have climbed the telegraph office building and hung a banner saying "the daily smellograph"
Instagram post with a photo of the top of a building (arched windows at the bottom of the frame, and above the windows a banner saying "smellograph" Instagram post with a photo of a person climbing a stone building
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Theresa Davis @helresa.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🚨 URGENT: Parliament Square This Saturday 1pm – Stand for Trans Rights feministgenderequality.network/urgent-parli...
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URGENT: Parliament Square This Saturday 1pm– Stand for Trans Rights - Feminist Gender Equality Network
🚨 URGENT: Parliament Square This Saturday 1pm– Stand for Trans Rights This Saturday at 1:00 p.m in Parliament Square, there will be a critical protest in support of trans rights, following todays Supr...
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