Letters to (of) the Future

Maddy Costa writes about theatre and performance, online, in fanzines and in collaboration with other writers/artists, including Andy Field on the Tiny Letter project Criticism & Love. Together with Mary Paterson and Diana Damian Martin she is a founder member of the experimental writing, performance and dialogue collectives Something Other and the Department of Feminist Conversation. With Mary Paterson she is writer-in-residence with the Franko B archive. Theatre-makers she has worked with as dramaturg include Harry Josephine Giles, Selina Thompson, Jamal Gerald and Paula Varjack. 

Diana Damian Martin is a performance writer, critic and researcher. She is Lecturer in Performance Arts at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, a co-founder and member of Generative Constraints and the Department of Feminist Conversations and co-editor of Something Other. She is editor of On Time: A SPILL Reader (Pacitti Company, 2018), (states of) wake: Dedicating Performance (performance space, 2018) and co-editor of Critical Interruptions Vol 1: Steakhouse LIVE (Steakhouse and the Live Art Development Agency, 2018). Her academic work has been published in Performance Research, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Contemporary Theatre Review, Performance Philosophy Journal, and Global Performance Studies

Mary Paterson is a writer and artist who works between performance, text and visual arts. Recent commissions include “A Walk of View,” performed at Spike Island, Bristol and “Soon after, this creature dissolved to tears,” an installation at Arnolfini, Bristol (both 2017). She co-ordinates the Department of Feminist Conversations and Something Other, alongside Maddy Costa & Diana Damian Martin.