⭕️Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe 📖Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and rep’d by Eleanor Birne at RCW 👨🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Hitched to @pierstorday.bsky.social 🔗 https://linktr.ee/willtosh3 🔗 https://lnk.to/StraightActing-HBhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3luublrn7h222This will be FAB 🧚🏻‍♂️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jul 2025 09:43 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3luublrn7h222https://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3lpqvyfyprk2rAbsolutely chuffed and very grateful that STRAIGHT ACTING has been shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2024 - it’s made my week! https://www.str.org.uk/grants-prizes/theatre-book-prize/22 May 2025 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpqvyfyprk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3lovqgysbmc2xGrazie mille to Fabio and Sonia Massai and all at Sapienza Università di Roma for having me! [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2025 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lovqgysbmc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3lojawvegns2dI can’t promise this will be brilliant but I can certainly promise to have a brilliant time delivering it IN ROME. 🥳 indeed! [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2025 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lojawvegns2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3lmhn2ucgh22fAbsolutely delighted that #StraightActing is out in paperback (that’s like quarto, for all you early modern drama fans) today! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Apr 2025 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmhn2ucgh22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3lkspq4jsx22yVery glad to have had the chance to review Simon Goldhill’s queer history of King’s for @thetls.bsky.social t.co/CCdCXZNPtU https://t.co/CCdCXZNPtU20 Mar 2025 12:39 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkspq4jsx22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3ljaapyd4622qEnjoyed chatting to @mrnicklevine.bsky.social for this fun piece on Edward II https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250226-edward-ii-did-a-gay-love-affair-spark-a-14th-century-royal-crisis28 Feb 2025 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljaapyd4622qhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3ljaahcr2lc2qWhat fun to go to the movies with Jason and get AWFULLY nitpicky about Shakespeare in Love - a film which I still adore, despite everything. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Feb 2025 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljaahcr2lc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3liuamadfi22vHurry hurry! It’s a month or so till STRAIGHT ACTING: THE MANY QUEER LIVES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE comes out in paperback, but order it from @waterstones.bsky.social today or tomorrow and get 25% off! #WPreorders #StraightActing https://www.waterstones.com/book/straight-acting/will-tosh/978152939051323 Feb 2025 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3liuamadfi22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3lim4vxsg2c2vThis is the most dazzlingly written piece of criticism, and I’m not just saying that because Cheney very shrewdly reads Straight Acting alongside Marjorie Garber’s Shakespeare in Bloomsbury: read to the end for a powerful articulation of the consolations of literature in terrible times. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Feb 2025 10:55 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lim4vxsg2c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3lgtf4t6iys2jWonderful - the whole film is available to watch via a link in the article. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jan/28/andy-the-furniture-maker-derek-jarman-gay?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other28 Jan 2025 21:21 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgtf4t6iys2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3lfvavuhuls2dWe don’t talk enough about how utterly repellent the food looks on #TheTraitors16 Jan 2025 21:45 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfvavuhuls2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3lchzexzmhk2jGrateful to have the opportunity to review Simon Russell Beale’s intelligent and rather moving memoir-meets-character-study A PIECE OF WORK. I’m sure SRB isn’t: he comes across as deeply thoughtful and wise. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/fortitude-emotional-intelligence-and-wit-the-defining-qualities-of-simon-russell-beale/04 Dec 2024 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lchzexzmhk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/willtosh.bsky.social/post/3lcg6ybhous2jGet 2025 off to a grand start! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Dec 2024 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:xjbdnf4jva6stf2xvcefrxmc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcg6ybhous2j