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🏳️‍🌈 They/any tbh. Screenwriter-performer rep'd @curtisbrown 📖✏️ Musical Theatre writing with @forristalclarke 👑Dragking @dragprov #baftaconnect member 2022

Islington, London
Joined May 2009
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*big inhale*... AAAAAAHHHHH-
Marie Antoinette returns for Season 2! Ed Bazalgette (@bazal80 ) will direct the first 4 episodes and Louise Ironside will lead the writing team, which includes Francesca Forristal (@Forristalwrites )! 👑🌟📺 variety.com/2023/tv/global/m…
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I am working on a script with nuns in it, so I've been googling lots of bible verses. This has convinced my algorithm that I am a radical christian now. Cue: Conversion Therapy Adverts. 👍 #screenwriting
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Oh good, we're in the 'everything is bad' phase again. First drafts can suck it.
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feel like one of those extra kids in the playground making up increasingly convoluted backstories for their characters like OK so pretend I was an orphan & I used to be a thief but like a good thief so I joined a convent but I ran away & I have this cute goat that follows me ev-
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This team are the actual coolest. Louise Ironside is a show runner extraordinaire, and I am SO excited. Eps 4 and 5, keep yer peepers peeled 👀
👑 BBC to air second series of hit historical drama Marie Antoinette! The new series continues the extraordinary story of the incredibly modern and avant-garde young queen. More ➡️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/b…
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📢A Second Series of Marie Antoinette has been announced! Louise Ironside is an executive producer and leads the writing team, which includes Francesca Forristal (@Forristalwrites). Ed Bazalgette directs the first four episodes! 👑
👑 BBC to air second series of hit historical drama Marie Antoinette! The new series continues the extraordinary story of the incredibly modern and avant-garde young queen. More ➡️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/b…
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a post that fills me with so much joy, for so many reasons. xxx
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This is true romance fight me
Today's picture: for Mary Shelley's birthday, a locket holding her and Percy's hair
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Straight notes on gay storylines 😐
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I live for the drama
#OTD 1820 Byron writes of "Johnny Keats's p-ss-a-bed poetry… there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin"
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Happy #pride from a very happy Dragking
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Ending the week reading new treatments/outlines/scripts from writers we're working with and I am SO EXCITED by all of them!! Would like to just make them and watch them please thanks.
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Sighing, she retrieves the milkshakes from her yard. Another day, another disappointing haul. A shape appears, ambling without haste. "I hope I'm not too late?" he asks. She studies his pale, wrinkled face, his long grey coat. Not a boy, but a man. "No," she says. "Come in."
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- I say Emily, do you ever get the sense that there's this- little woman, making sandcastles at your feet? - I say, I do. I do, Meredith. All the time.
Conversation in the Jardin du Luxembourg, by Italian painter Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1892). In private collection.
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Episode 3, Church Scene: 'Christ is Risen' song. If u know, u know.
#BEEF is the best show of 2023 so far. Fight me.
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#BEEF is the best show of 2023 so far. Fight me.
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At @AlmeidaTheatre for The Secret Life of Bees. THESE VOCALS. I swear. I'm melting. This cast is utterly breath taking.
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Overused verb of today: HUFFED. 6 people huffed 8 times in 60 pages of script. Nice to see me putting that English Degree to use.
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