I withdrew from competition for the Les Enfants Terribles Awards at Greenwich Theatre yesterday live on stage. This was as a result of the wheelchair inaccessibility of the main stage, and the…
Author: Jamie Hale
Creative Mentoring – Why I Do It
I have been creatively stuck at many points. I’ve felt like I’d never write again, like my work wouldn’t come together, like I didn’t know what to do next, and like I…
Shield (MacTaggart Lecture)
When I’m not writing poetry, I’m also moving into writing for television – a world I’m realising just makes disabled people almost completely invisible – most of the time. The MacTaggart Lecture…
Knights of the Round Table
As a commission for the podcast Bedtime Stories for the End of the World I wrote a series of poems merging Arthurian legend, history, and themes to build a wold tracing ripples…
Lewisham and Harrow (with Daljit Nagra)
A collaborative poem between Jamie Hale and Daljit Nagra J The field here by day is throbbing. Drill-master ex-army workouts, blonde women sprint with their buggies. At night, the music is thrumming.…
Director / Theatremaker of the Year – Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund
I’m delighted to have received one of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund Awards in Directing and Theatre-Making. I was nominated back in November by the Barbican Centre – probably because of…
Shield – my poetry pamphlet is RELEASED
At the beginning of the pandemic, I spoke to my GP about being ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ and intensive care treatment, and he told me that I was “stuck between a rock and…
SHIELD
On the 14th Jan 2021, Shield – my first poetry pamphlet – will be published by Verve Press. Exploring my experience as a disabled person during the pandemic through a variety of…
Experimental! An online writing retreat for D/deaf and disabled writers
For a little while now, I have been asking on Twitter for recommendations of D/deaf and disabled writers and I am now delighted to announce why! Experimental! is an online writing retreat…
Solo show: NOT DYING
You missed it! A film of this show was available on YouTube until August – but it’s gone. If you want a chance to catch it in future, keep a close eye…