Tune in to Episode 2 of The Northern Voice podcast to hear how queer theatre is making beautiful waves in the industry. 

With queer artists Felix Mufti-Wright (Transcend Theatre), Meg McGrady (Queerly Productions), Jacqui Bardelang (Sigi Moonlight) and Roma Havers, we ask: are there more opportunities in the South for queer artists? How can theatres better make space for queer people? And – most importantly – should James Corden have been cast in Prom?

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A new podcast by Northern Broadsides

Hosted by Shabina Aslam & Millie Gaston

Sound Editing by Alex Colley

Produced by Hallam Breen & Jess Rooney 

This series of eights podcasts, recorded in lockdown, embraces the Northern Voice in all its glory, whether we're exploring disability, migration, class, ethnicity, accent, gender or sexuality, The Northern Voice confounds expectations of what it means to be Northern in the world of arts and culture today.

Each episode has a panel discussion hosted by Shabina Aslam, our Creative Engagement Producer, and a one-to-one interview with a Northern artist, led by local actor Millie Gaston.

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Guest Biographies

Jacqui Bardelang

Jacqui Bardelang is a British actor and drag performer currently studying on a one-year postgraduate course at the CDMT + FDS accredited Drama Studio London. Her drag king alter ego Sigi Moonlight has performed on cabaret festival stages all over the country from Glastonbury Music Festival to Shakespeare's Globe. Her one-person shows often explore the dichotomies of Masculine-Feminine and East meets West, and shine a light on important political messages with tones of dark humour. She most recently stars as a reincarnation of the infamous eponymous Asian supervillain in Chinese Arts Now commissioned short film, "Casting Fu Manchu".

Meg McGrady

Meg McGrady (they/them) is an award-winning twenty one year old nonbinary composer and creative. They recently had work selected for BEAM2020 and won the Vision, Voice and Potential Stiles and Drewe Award 2020. Their works include: The Phase, Camp In-Between, and Untitled Rosalind Franklin Musical.

Meg is also one of the founders of Queerly Productions which co-produced MTPRIDE 2020 and Sinqueerly Me, a cabaret night highlighting the talent and stories of queer women and people of marginalised genders. 

More on Meg: https://www.megmcgrady.co.uk/

Felix Mufti

Felix is a British/Maltese actor, singer and writer based in Liverpool. Felix is heavily involved in the Liverpool theatre scene and has performed as part of Homotopia, the city’s annual queer theatre festival.

Recent performance credits include: Cinderella (The Young Vic, R&D); Tin Star (Sky Atlantic); The Uncomfortability of a Made Up Wor-l-d (Unity Theatre)

Roma Havers

Roma Havers is a Manchester-based queer poet and theatre-maker, whose current work explores, failing bodies, outness and how poetry can shorthand memory into something new, she has recently been experimenting with surrealist audio plays (Had Matters - Superbia 2020) and video essays (The Origins of Motion Sickness - 2020) format. While working with Young Identity she has been commissioned by HOME, Manchester Histories and Manchester International Festival. She has also performed for radio, television and festivals including Hay Festival and BBC Contains Strong Language, including producing a Queer Writing Festival for MIF in 2020. Her first solo show ‘Bolted’ about agoraphobia debuted with UKYA in February 2019, and her second solo show ‘LOB’ – a tennis poetry bonanza – has been made into a film for Queer Contact 2021.

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