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Kirsty Sedgman
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Doctor of Audiences 🎭 🎥 📚 Author of #OnBeingUnreasonable with @FaberBooks: http://bit.ly/unrea. Agent JP Marshall, she/her, opinions: model’s own
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my students when I tell them they’re not allowed to use AI to write their essays
A photo of a charger block with what looks like a row of horrified faces
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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celebrating a fabulous first day in the archives with a pumpkin cocktail (v on brand after having a pumpkin-pie-filled croissant cube for breakfast)
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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On the plane to NYC to do some archival research for my 5th book. This one is going to be an intellectual history of the development of audience research, going back to the 1920s. Working title: Influence Men
A selfie of me, a 40yo white woman sitting on a plane
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I just said “6… 7…” to my two boys (11yo & 8yo) and it was like I’d activated a sleeper cell
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I can explain
A photo of me wearing a pink suit and standing on a stage in an exaggerated lunge
October 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Tonight I’m at Leeds Playhouse to host a fun chat for Leeds Festival of Ideas about all things manners with the lovely @williamhanson.bsky.social, the etiquette coach. I’ve come prepared by wearing plenty of pearls, ready to clutch if needed 😮🥰
A photo of me, a 40yo white woman with wavy orange hair wearing a white waistcoat and pink suit trousers with multiple lines of pearl necklaces and a black leather and brass harness The frontage of Leeds Playhouse
October 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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thanks Grazia
October 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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I had the ✨BEST✨ time this week giving the opening lecture for Prada Mode at London Frieze – feat. a compelling immersive installation by @elmgreenanddragset.bsky.social called ‘The Audience’, plus a series of brilliant talks about all things audiences
A photo of me, a 40yo white woman with shoulder length orange hair standing on a stage with a microphone. Behind me is a screen filled with synonyms for audiences Another photo of me, this time standing in front of a poster with a blurred black and white photo of an audience member. The title is “Prada Presents The Audience by Elmgreen and Dragset”
October 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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invented a game at the gym. I pump weights while watching the backs of people exercising on the cardio machines. the game is called “adult lesbian or teenage boy?”
October 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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special interests
A text from Tom reading: “Btw I have been invited to a series of classes on my special interest. They are three Saturdays in Feb, April, and June from 7pm to 9pm. They’re only £15 each so I was wondering if that would be ok for me to book in?” My replies: Cool! Let me guess Trains? War? Trains in wartime? Guns on trains during war, with cannons? ... BBQ?
October 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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getting a fly in your eye while on the bike is funny bc you’ll just be cycling along like 🥲 I have a tiny corpse 🥲drowning 🥲 on my eyeball 🥲 and there’s nothing I can do about it 🥲 apart from blink a lot 🥲 and cry 🥲
September 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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bipolar playlist time
Screenshot of an Apple Music playlist titled “insane but let’s dance”
September 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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In fairness, I’m an actual human with a PhD but neither can I www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/b...
The latest ChatGPT is supposed to be ‘PhD level’ smart. It can’t even label a map | CNN Business
Sam Altman, the artificial intelligence hype master, is in damage-control mode.
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August 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Clean Slate is currently getting rave reviews at the Fringe following our R&D audience research!

It’s about weaponised incompetence & casts audiences as the hapless boyfriend – and it is BRILLIANT. I got involved because it’s the sharpest, cleverest use of audience participation I’ve ever seen.
August 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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I’m on Research Leave! 🥰🚦
A sign on my office door with a picture of green, amber, and red traffic lights. The text reads: Hello! I am now on Research Leave (that's good), and very easy to distract (that's bad). I am therefore instituting the following traffic light system: Door open? Please distract me! I'm bored and lonely and I don't really wanna do the work today (I don't really wanna do the work today, I don't really wanna do the work today, I don't wanna do the work today) (google the musical Firebringer by Starkid if you don't know the reference. Or ask me! I want to be distracted remember! I may even do the dance) Door ajar? If you need me then you can either knock on the door or talk to me through it, and I might answer - but if I'm focusing hard on something and will lose my train of thought I might not, or else my reply might be incomprehensible, idk, maybe try it and see (unless it can wait, in which case maybe don't) Door closed? Think of me like Schrödinger's cat. I'm simultaneously in here and not; in a private meeting and not; alive and dead. Either way, don't worry about it. Please only disturb if the building is on fire or if somebody has collapsed and the only thing that can save them is a Doctor (of Audiences).
August 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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my hairdresser: how is that temperature for you

me, scalp scalded, skull on fire, steam rising from my head like the breath of a dragon: fine thanks 🙂
July 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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“This is the life, relaxing with my favourite member of the family” – my sunny seven-year-old Sully 🥰
July 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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my old pal Truth Sayer is back! hi bbs it’s been ages 🥰
Email from my cyber stalker reading: “You look like a malnourished boy 😬 Is that what Tom likes????”
July 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Matt Badwin
drjennings.bsky.social Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · Jun 3
I regret to inform you that Matt Goodwin has been drawing graphs again.
June 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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I need to use the sleep
June 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Got back from holiday. Look what my student has done to my office 😂💙 #Gredge

(it’s a joke based on a hilarious web comic)
June 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Theatre Fandom is on the list of new theatre books for summer reading!

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New Theater Books for Summer Reading
Below is a manageable list of a dozen theater books — recently published or soon to be– that look to be good summer reads: five memoirs or biographies, four books of history or criticism, three nov…
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May 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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🎭 COMING UP: Join Dr @kirstysedgman.bsky.social for Stories from the Stage: Celebrating Modern Theatre

Kirsty will be joined by Gregory Doran, Heidi Vaughan & Polly Davis to discuss why the arts are more important than ever

🗓️ Fri 6 June, 6-9pm
📌 Arts Complex
🎟️ bit.ly/4dhrpaY (free!)
May 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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A book chapter #fanformance #liveart #broing out now in #theatre fandom @uiowa press looking forward to reading all the other contributions !
May 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Delighted to be in this new book with brilliant collaborators Sarah Price and Helen Freshwater. Our chapter investigates the idea of distributed fandom through frequent theatre attendance, drawing on our @ukri.org funded Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts project 🎭 🎵
fanstudies.bsky.social Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · May 5
New at University of Iowa Press ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Theatre Fandom:
Engaged Audiences in the Twenty-first Century

Editor(s) Kirsty Sedgman, Francesca Coppa & Matt Hills

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May 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM