Andrew Keates is a multi-award-winning Theatre Director, Acting Coach and Artist who lives in London.
His latest project in QUEER THEATRE with a very simple mission:
To tell authentic LGBTQIA+ stories without shame.
To nurture LGBTQIA- theatre makers with pride, in the form of classes, specialist workshops, one night only events and social/networking functions.
To partner with individuals and organisations who will help us grow the visibility of queer stories in the mainstream as well as directly to the LGBTQIA+ community.
To one day occupy a permanent space and dedicate it to creating LGBTQIA+ theatre, events and entertainment.
In this day and age when the LGBTQ@+ community are under political attacks and are finding it necessary having to fight to maintain our hard-won equal rights. its a joy to see Andrew’s new venture start to take off
It’s an exceptional year for queer theater ad performance at Edinburgh Festival Fringe . As well as celebrating the entire spectrum of the LGBTQ+ community, it also makes for a great space for audiences to encounter the unfettered uniqueness and authenticity of those who might be different from them. We recently published our Top Ten … Continue reading
There is no better place in the world to spend all of August than in Edinburgh, Scotland. It’s when the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as ‘The Fringe”) dominates the city. It is the world’s largest performance arts festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 … Continue reading
London’s Kings Head Theatre keeps reminding us of what an important source it is for such excellent queer theatre. This summer it invited 4 different LGBTQ artistic directors to curate new work as part of The Takeover : Queer Futures Project The Theatre is now about to start the final of the four seasons … Continue reading