Dr Laura K (she/her)
@laurack.bsky.social
dramaturg, awards judge, theatre critic/editor, director, occasional producer 🎭
teacher/tutor/lecturer/coach with a PhD👩🏻🎓
angry about white supremacist heteropatriarchal capitalism✊🏻
neurodivergent London-based immigrant🌎
own views
teacher/tutor/lecturer/coach with a PhD👩🏻🎓
angry about white supremacist heteropatriarchal capitalism✊🏻
neurodivergent London-based immigrant🌎
own views
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Dr Laura K (she/her)
@laurack.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Hello new followers! As you might have guessed from my profile, I wear many hats within the theatre and education sectors. I also have a shiny, new PhD and am always on the prowl for theatre, lecturing, and teaching work. I look forward to hearing about your projects!
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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Completely measured, non-hysterical, nor fully demented commentary from the Telegraph
August 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Completely measured, non-hysterical, nor fully demented commentary from the Telegraph
Chat Sh*t Get Hit is a smart and cohesive performance piece that examines women’s anger festival.summerhallarts.co.uk/events/chat-...
Chat Sh*t, Get Hit - Summerhall Arts
What if your anger just simmers underneath? If it never quite reaches boiling point, but it's present, burning your insides?
festival.summerhallarts.co.uk
August 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Chat Sh*t Get Hit is a smart and cohesive performance piece that examines women’s anger festival.summerhallarts.co.uk/events/chat-...
I Dream in Colour honestly shares one disabled woman's quest for bodily autonomy festmag.com/2025/08/03/r...
Review: I Dream in Colour
A semi-autobiographical, solo snapshot raising questions of bodily autonomy
festmag.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I Dream in Colour honestly shares one disabled woman's quest for bodily autonomy festmag.com/2025/08/03/r...
Interview: Crash Theatre Company, Crow Theatre and Song of the Goat festmag.com/2025/07/30/i...
Interview: Crash Theatre Company, Crow Theatre and Song of the Goat
The three companies discuss their new interpretations of Shakespeare…
festmag.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Interview: Crash Theatre Company, Crow Theatre and Song of the Goat festmag.com/2025/07/30/i...
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It's notable that the only student speech frequently shut down on university campuses is a) pro-Palestine b) pro-trans-rights. The OfS seems *deeply* unconcerned about that speech being limited. In fact, they want academics who oppose those positions to have the right to 'shock and offend' students.
'He added that students should be able to express any view, no matter how offensive it is to others, as long as it is not outside what is generally allowed by law, such as harassment or unlawful discrimination.'
This part just sounds like an arsehole's charter, a licence to be a nightmare.
This part just sounds like an arsehole's charter, a licence to be a nightmare.
June 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
It's notable that the only student speech frequently shut down on university campuses is a) pro-Palestine b) pro-trans-rights. The OfS seems *deeply* unconcerned about that speech being limited. In fact, they want academics who oppose those positions to have the right to 'shock and offend' students.
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The last time he pulled this Muslim ban BS, people rushed into the streets in disgust & lawyers raced to the airports to help. Now, no one’s shocked, everyone is numb… This country is in seriously scary shape
June 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The last time he pulled this Muslim ban BS, people rushed into the streets in disgust & lawyers raced to the airports to help. Now, no one’s shocked, everyone is numb… This country is in seriously scary shape
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🎤 If the government wants national renewal, they should invest in the arts and culture 🎤
Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱
www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
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Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱
www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
🧶👇
May 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🎤 If the government wants national renewal, they should invest in the arts and culture 🎤
Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱
www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
🧶👇
Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱
www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
🧶👇
Headline - sounds good, actually
Article - oh, no. No thank you
Article - oh, no. No thank you
🚨The Universities UK Transformation and Efficiency Taskforce report has been published🚨
Hotly anticipated, it sets out what vice-chancellors are offering as their bargaining chip ahead of spending review.
Our summary, free to read (more to come). www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Hotly anticipated, it sets out what vice-chancellors are offering as their bargaining chip ahead of spending review.
Our summary, free to read (more to come). www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
UUK efficiency report urges ‘new era of collaboration’ - Research Professional News
Report criticises previous push for competition in higher education and calls for collegiality
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Headline - sounds good, actually
Article - oh, no. No thank you
Article - oh, no. No thank you
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Britain's university system is now in freefall. In the last two weeks, redundancies at:
*Aberdeen
*Arts Uni Bournemouth
*Bangor
*Durham
*Exeter
*Falmouth
*Greenwich
*Keele
*Newcastle
*Nottingham
*Plymouth
*Trinity St Davids
*Aberdeen
*Arts Uni Bournemouth
*Bangor
*Durham
*Exeter
*Falmouth
*Greenwich
*Keele
*Newcastle
*Nottingham
*Plymouth
*Trinity St Davids
May 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Britain's university system is now in freefall. In the last two weeks, redundancies at:
*Aberdeen
*Arts Uni Bournemouth
*Bangor
*Durham
*Exeter
*Falmouth
*Greenwich
*Keele
*Newcastle
*Nottingham
*Plymouth
*Trinity St Davids
*Aberdeen
*Arts Uni Bournemouth
*Bangor
*Durham
*Exeter
*Falmouth
*Greenwich
*Keele
*Newcastle
*Nottingham
*Plymouth
*Trinity St Davids
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I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
May 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
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Talent Development at Sheffield Theatres? I sure hope it does.
Below is a thread of our current opportunities! Including the newly announced Theatremakers Group for emerging artists of all disciplines in our region!
Below is a thread of our current opportunities! Including the newly announced Theatremakers Group for emerging artists of all disciplines in our region!
May 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Talent Development at Sheffield Theatres? I sure hope it does.
Below is a thread of our current opportunities! Including the newly announced Theatremakers Group for emerging artists of all disciplines in our region!
Below is a thread of our current opportunities! Including the newly announced Theatremakers Group for emerging artists of all disciplines in our region!
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Big fan of this as a method, both for bigots and for disengaging with male academics that We All Know About.
This is pretty much what I landed on in the last book.
May 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Big fan of this as a method, both for bigots and for disengaging with male academics that We All Know About.
I’m still looking for someone to share my Edfringe digs with.
1-15 August in Leith. It's a 1-bedroom, with a private bedroom and a sofa bed in the living room (I don't mind where I sleep). £1400, so it would be £700 per person for the fortnight.
Shout if interested and feel free to share!
1-15 August in Leith. It's a 1-bedroom, with a private bedroom and a sofa bed in the living room (I don't mind where I sleep). £1400, so it would be £700 per person for the fortnight.
Shout if interested and feel free to share!
May 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I’m still looking for someone to share my Edfringe digs with.
1-15 August in Leith. It's a 1-bedroom, with a private bedroom and a sofa bed in the living room (I don't mind where I sleep). £1400, so it would be £700 per person for the fortnight.
Shout if interested and feel free to share!
1-15 August in Leith. It's a 1-bedroom, with a private bedroom and a sofa bed in the living room (I don't mind where I sleep). £1400, so it would be £700 per person for the fortnight.
Shout if interested and feel free to share!
Since the GE, I’ve been saying to anyone that listens that Labour needs to stop pandering to the far right base, and make changes that will improve people’s quality of life, otherwise they’re gonna go full fash and Reform will sweep the next election. So many folks have said that would never happen
Seat Projection based on this morning's YouGov Poll:
RFM: 309 (+304)
LAB: 138 (-273)
LDM: 95 (+23)
SNP: 43 (+34)
CON: 21 (-100)
GRN: 7 (+3)
PLC: 7 (+3)
Oth: 11 (+6)
RFM: 309 (+304)
LAB: 138 (-273)
LDM: 95 (+23)
SNP: 43 (+34)
CON: 21 (-100)
GRN: 7 (+3)
PLC: 7 (+3)
Oth: 11 (+6)
May 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Since the GE, I’ve been saying to anyone that listens that Labour needs to stop pandering to the far right base, and make changes that will improve people’s quality of life, otherwise they’re gonna go full fash and Reform will sweep the next election. So many folks have said that would never happen
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the white working class falls for it every time. they are told immigrants or queer people are getting “special rights” even as billionaires hoard trillions.
May 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
the white working class falls for it every time. they are told immigrants or queer people are getting “special rights” even as billionaires hoard trillions.
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For anyone who needs some GOOD news, Nottoway Plantation—burial site of countless victims of the rape, maiming, and slaughter of the formerly enslaved but where white people love to brunch & get married—has burned to the ground.
May the ancestors continue to rest peacefully. Amen.
May the ancestors continue to rest peacefully. Amen.
May 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
For anyone who needs some GOOD news, Nottoway Plantation—burial site of countless victims of the rape, maiming, and slaughter of the formerly enslaved but where white people love to brunch & get married—has burned to the ground.
May the ancestors continue to rest peacefully. Amen.
May the ancestors continue to rest peacefully. Amen.
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Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around.
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around.
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
Love to be reminded that I’m not welcome in the UK purely because I’m foreign, it’s my fave
May 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Love to be reminded that I’m not welcome in the UK purely because I’m foreign, it’s my fave
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A lot has been said about Labour's hardening of immigration rules & dehumanising rhetoric, but nobody is sharing the opinions of migrant workers.
That's why we commissioned Nandi Msezane, a care worker in East Sussex, to write this piece for us. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
That's why we commissioned Nandi Msezane, a care worker in East Sussex, to write this piece for us. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Opinion: Migrant workers prop up the UK’s social care system. Now…
Labour’s crackdown will break a promise made to workers like me – and leave the system in disrepair
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A lot has been said about Labour's hardening of immigration rules & dehumanising rhetoric, but nobody is sharing the opinions of migrant workers.
That's why we commissioned Nandi Msezane, a care worker in East Sussex, to write this piece for us. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
That's why we commissioned Nandi Msezane, a care worker in East Sussex, to write this piece for us. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Starmer making the Hostile Environment policy even more hostile by quantifying migrants’ worth is giving ‘incel telling his mate that the female had it coming because of her high body count’
May 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Starmer making the Hostile Environment policy even more hostile by quantifying migrants’ worth is giving ‘incel telling his mate that the female had it coming because of her high body count’
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eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
May 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
Please, stop inviting me to review shows written by/using AI. I’m not going to come or pass the invites to the other writers of TPTTUK
May 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Please, stop inviting me to review shows written by/using AI. I’m not going to come or pass the invites to the other writers of TPTTUK
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If you're on a visa in the UK (i.e a migrant) you do not have access to public services. You pay for the NHS and pay taxes. So someone like me funds public services 100%
May 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If you're on a visa in the UK (i.e a migrant) you do not have access to public services. You pay for the NHS and pay taxes. So someone like me funds public services 100%
This is 43, starting as I mean to go on, aging disgracefully, etc.
May 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is 43, starting as I mean to go on, aging disgracefully, etc.