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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · 3d

ahh this is so lovely! tysm 🥰

Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · 11d

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 🥲

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · 11d

nono, not this year I don’t think – just remembering having them in the past a few weeks after the freshers have spread around the freshers

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · 11d

Universities: ok you can have one free flu jab, for a treat… in November. once everyone has caught it. ur welcome 🥰

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · 12d

bipolar playlist time

Screenshot of an Apple Music playlist titled “insane but let’s dance”

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Aug 23

Guattari:

three men are standing in a room and one of them is holding a cup that says ' stop guys stop ' on it

ALT: three men are standing in a room and one of them is holding a cup that says ' stop guys stop ' on it

media.tenor.com

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Aug 14

geography? i don’t even know her 🥰

Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

www.cnn.com

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Aug 14

(@lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social, I’m sure you’re all booked up but jic!)

Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Aug 13

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).

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Jul 17

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 🙂

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Jul 12

“This is the life, relaxing with my favourite member of the family” – my sunny seven-year-old Sully 🥰

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Jul 10

It’s been a whole year of silence! I’ve got a folder full of these 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Jul 10

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????”

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Jun 4

Matt Badwin

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · Jun 3

I regret to inform you that Matt Goodwin has been drawing graphs again.

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Jun 4

ok yes the people, we need to know 👀

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Jun 4

I need to use the sleep

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Jun 2

😂

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Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social · Jun 2

Got back from holiday. Look what my student has done to my office 😂💙 #Gredge

(it’s a joke based on a hilarious web comic)

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Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social · May 19

Theatre Fandom is on the list of new theatre books for summer reading!

newyorktheater.me/2025/05/17/n...

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…

newyorktheater.me

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · May 13

🎭 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!)

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Owen G Parry @fanriot.bsky.social · May 8

A book chapter #fanformance #liveart #broing out now in #theatre fandom @uiowa press looking forward to reading all the other contributions !

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Stephanie Pitts @sparcsheffield.bsky.social · May 9

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 🎭 🎵

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

uipress.uiowa.edu/books/theatr...

Theatre Fandom

uipress.uiowa.edu

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · May 6

I have a chapter in this I'm very proud of, about bisexual fan communities relationship to Hamilton, and the work that queer fan communities do to see themselves in the room where it happens 💙💜🩷

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

uipress.uiowa.edu/books/theatr...

Theatre Fandom

uipress.uiowa.edu

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