FOR PRIDE MONTH 2026, WE'RE LAUNCHING
THE QUEER THEATRE VISIBILITY SCHEME
At the King’s Head Theatre, we embrace and continue our history and culture of supporting LGBTQIA+ art, theatre, and voices.
Are you an LGBTQ+ Theatre maker? Writer? Actor? Stage Designer? Do you have an upcoming Queer show you want to shout out?
We want to hear from you! This Pride month, we will be sharing upcoming LGBTQ+ focused theatre productions and LGBTQ+ theatre makers, to celebrate and boost queer artists all around us!
If you want to submit your Queer show, send us your show name, venue, artwork, dates, 50 words of copy, and link. If you're a Queer theatre maker, send your name, role, pronouns, credits/website, and availability. You can submit these details to mischa@kingsheadtheatre.com with the subject line VISIBILITY SCHEME, and we will post in within two working days.
All submissions will be displayed on this page and on our Instagram account @kingsheadtheatre.
They are listed in order of submission.
Productions
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Romeo + Hamed
Romeo and Hamed is a bold queer reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy by Scott Horgan, set in Croydon, where Romeo and Hamed’s intense connection challenges faith, family and expectation. Their love burns through rave-fuelled chaos and lyrical verse, exploring identity, religion and belonging, asking if we are free to love.
2nd - 6th September
Riverside Studios
Spin Cycle
‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ meets ‘The L Word, in this bittersweet, absurdist launderette meet-cute. This Off West End award-winning play examines the space between loving someone and not, forgetting and remembering, dirty and clean clothes.
25th - 26th July
The Glitch Theatre
5th - 31st August
Clover Bistro Square (Edinburgh Fringe)
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The Last Halloween of Diablo
Married lesbians Ruth and Zadie celebrate Halloween by wishing they could kill each other. Their annual 'Spooktacular' party spirals desperately out of control thanks to seven years of simmering resentments, a mysterious Transylvanian beauty and a disembowelled clown called Diablo. Gone Girl meets Inside No9 meets Roald Dahl's The Twits.
8th - 10th June
The Hope Theatre
All of Them, Dead
In a global pandemic caused by infected meat, two boys find they're much less alone than they thought. All Of Them, Dead is a play about being young, gay and working-class in the middle of nowhere.
25th - 26th June
Chats Palace Theatre
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Baleen
Deep underwater, deep in the stomach of a whale, sit two people huddling around a small campfire. All they have is the old stories they tell. Stories from home, stories of magic, loves lost, and lives saved.
Jamaican stories that they tell over and over again.
What happens when the whale takes another soul? When someone gate-crashes their stories?
1 -3 June
Hope Theatre
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Thou Shalt Sit the F**k Down
Following a sold-out run at Lambeth Fringe and with 5* feedback from 75% of voluntary audience, Thou Shalt Sit The F*** Down returns as a filthy, unhinged and unapologetically queer dive into the world of children’s entertainment, mental health, and absurd expectations placed on those who perform for a living.
2-6 June
Bread and Roses Theatre
4-5 July
Queer Comedy Club
Age of the Hero
An adaptation of Homer’s Iliad, Age of the Hero is a concert style musical that follows the beginning and end of the war in Troy. Featuring an original pop-rock soundtrack, Age of the Hero is a retrospective of the epic woven with contemporary queer interpretations of the text.
17 - 18 June
Phoenix Arts Club
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That's Ace
Ace has been invited clubbing for the first time by her school crush, Sasha. As the club slowly fills with people and she waits for Sasha to arrive, she tries to determine whether her feelings for Sasha are romantic or platonic.
That’s Ace explores asexuality, attraction and the feeling of living outside of societal norms.
23rd June
Greenwich Theatre
6 - 30 August
Just the Tonic, The Caves (Edinburgh Fringe)
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Mother Tongue
Florence has just moved to Italy to teach English; Laura urgently needs to learn. Their structured lessons quickly slip into something far less predictable, as language barriers give way to wit, frustration, and growing attraction.
As connection deepens, what can they give to each other, what can they risk, and which parts of themselves will always remain impossible to translate?
15 - 17 June
The Hope Theatre
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Hater
Eve Xiao is everything Wai Ying isn't—whiny, fresh off the boat, a bad actor. Wai Ying is stalking Eve because they are, ew, the same casting type. How far does Wai Ying have to go until she is truly not like other Asian girls?
31 July
Etcetera Theatre
5 - 31 August
Guilded Balloon (Edinburgh Fringe)
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Tartarus
In the deepest depths of the underworld, Orpheus discovers a gay club. What happens if Eurydice doesn’t follow him back from the dead?
Blending heart-thumping music with alternative Greek myths, Tartarus is a musically-charged gig-theatre odyssey that reclaims queer identity from the many tortured men of the afterlife.
25 - 27 June
Hope Theatre
Psychosexual
Professional boundaries are blurred when a young couple’s therapist finds himself getting a bit too close to his newest clients. Sent his way by their friend, Alice, John and Sasha attempt to cling onto the threads of their train wreck marriage in Psychosexual, a queer comedy of commitment.
3 June
Omnibus Theatre
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Mud
Jules is struggling to fit in. Fitting in at camp, fitting in with boys, fitting into their own body.
Aiden is popular, self-assured, and drawn to Jules for reasons he can’t understand.
But when the pressures of camp and adolescent masculinity come to a head, can their muddied friendship survive?
11-13 June
Hope Theatre
The Borrowed Room
The Borrowed Room is a new Scottish queer play about memory, masculinity and belonging. In a small library meeting room, two men who grew up together meet to record a conversation about why some people leave, and others stay. What begins as shared memory becomes a reckoning with the past.
19-21 June
Summerhall (Edinburgh)
Jakob Welding: A Cosmic Ballet
Join Jakob Welding for a one-night-only album release concert blending queer pop, theatrical storytelling, and cabaret flair. Expect heartbreak, humour, glitter, and unapologetic emotion as songs from the new album come to life on stage. A celebration of queer joy, resilience, and self-expression in an intimate theatrical setting.
9 June
The Divine
HOMOglobin
HOMOglobin follows the journey of the drag character Crusty's relationship to phobia, fetish and queer identity. This piece explores how a diagnosed phobia can lead to a fetish and how the lines between fear and the erotic can be thin - all through a queer, comedic clown lens.
5 June
Chisenhale Dance Space
Très Gay Plays
Your second-grade teacher. On Grindr. Tonight.
IVF for your bestie.
A 99-year-old sugar daddy.
"Très Gay Plays" is a mashup of short plays that are fast, funny, and delightfully deranged. It's a night of chaotic queer joy held together by a subversive sense of heart.
29 June
The Divine
F**king Swans
Harper wants a divorce. Ronnie does not. Lindsey wants what’s best for everyone. Carol just wants attention. F**king Swans highlights the intrinsic need to be wanted.
This new play illuminates the power of decisions we make and the impact they have on the lives of those closest to us.
9 - 13 June
Omnibus Theatre
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G-Hole
G-Hole is a new queer play by Nathan Gaël York exploring masculinity, shame, intimacy, loneliness, class and connection. Through two young men trying to reach each other, and themselves, the piece asks what it means to be seen, desired, hurt, and saved.
10 July
The Hope Theatre
Moth and Dog are Dying to Get Out
Off the back of a WIP at the National Student Drama Festival 2026, STAAT Productions is proud to present Moth and Dog Are Dying to Get Out. This two-hander blends searing dialogue, physical theatre, techno soundscapes and fragmented, time-jumping storytelling to explore queer desire, the impacts of COVID-19 and rising extremism, and navigating intimacy in times of crisis.
5 - 31 August
Pleasance Dome (Edinburgh Fringe)
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Mega Church Xmas Play
From Drag to Deuteronomy, this show has everything!
Devoted followers of Mega Church "Skylife" are preparing their annual Xmas play, but will ruthless ambition, ego and jealousy consume them?
Mega Church Xmas Play is a surreal, absurd, irreverent farce exploring the competitive side of the entertainment industry, organised religion and man buns. Who will be crucified before curtain call?
26 - 30 August
The Libra Theatre Cafe (Camden Fringe)
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Pup Play: A Queer Pseudo-Lecture
A multi-award-winning comedy (of sorts) about Professor Handler David teaching about the kink of pup play. This provocative, hilarious, and surprisingly introspective show features multimedia visuals, gay sex, homonormative puppets, original punk music, and more. Pup Play has toured the world and raised over £1000+ for LGBTQ+ (so far).
16 - 18 July
Barons Court Theatre
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Final Queen
A Down Under drag queen’s outback road trip turns into a slasher horror nightmare in this genre-bending mash up of Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Expect haunted acrobatics, blood-soaked hula hooping, and hair-raising hilarity!
23 June
The Divine
5-30 August
Underbelly Cowgate (Edinburgh Fringe)
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Lauren & AJ Split the Bill
Two queer comedy actors. One unmissable evening. AJ on trans masculinity and identity. Lauren on fertility and working out which is the right end of the stick? Big themes, huge laughs from award-winning comedians.
29 June
The Divine
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Dr Freud's Cabaret: Case Notes I
Dr Freud is bankrupt. To improve his finances, the visionary doctor prepares a travelling cabaret featuring two of his most famous patients. However, all is not as it seems as Dr Freud becomes aware of his own demons… Opening the Divine Fringe as a double bill with Haris Ackermann’s Heliotropic!
15 June
The Divine
Padlocked!
Guy prepares himself for a bondage session with his Grindr hook-up, the alluring but elusive Fabio. But once the chains are on, there’s no escape from Guy’s problems…. It’s Pillion without motorbikes; Gerald’s Game without Gerald; Locke with locks! Revealing, exposing comedy drama. Sex positive, life negative. Definitely adults only.
7 - 29 August
The Space Triplex (Edinburgh Fringe)
Sunflower//Jellyfish
Sophie is preparing for her first art exhibition. It’s the start of her career - which shouldn't really be hers, considering she effectively stole the winning central piece from her best friend.
Sunflower//Jellyfish is a story of grief, guilt, love - and words with nowhere to go.
15 June
Omnibus Theatre
Theodore Is A Star
Theodore has known since he was a little gay boy that he was born for stardom - it was only a matter of waiting until that day arrived. After a surprise encounter with his ex-boyfriend, Theodore is confronted with the crashing truth that maybe he is not destined to become the star he thought he would.
THEODORE IS A STAR is a queer tragicomedy about attachment trauma, Clapham Daddies, Catholic guilt, shagging Michelangelo, Miley Cyrus, growing older as a gay person, and the fear of truly being seen.
9 - 11 August
Etcetera Theatre
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Firebrand
A sapphic swordswoman. A drag queen duke. A queer Versailles.
Julie D’Aubigny arrives at court seeking justice and instead finds unexpected romance and an unlikely community. Inspired by true events, 'Firebrand' is a new queer musical about the old queer struggle between living authentically and the safety of conforming.
17 - 19 August
Camden Fringe
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Calling all big-hearted heroes! Award-winning comedian Juliette Burton is summoning YOU. Villainous fictional women have taught her how to be a straight-up baddie. Join her to find out what happens when the good girls go bad. Live nerdgasms possible.
'Fun, fabulous and a safe space for nerds. **** EdinburghReviews
5 - 30 August
Guilded Balloon (Edinburgh Fringe)
CREATIVES
Siobhán Fergus Evans
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Siobhán Fergus Evans is a multi-award-winning trans writer and interdisciplinary artist based in Glasgow who deftly weaves poetry, theatre, and installation into tapestries saturated with lived experience. Her work has been shown at venues across the UK, including the Southbank Centre, Oxford Playhouse, and the Lowry.
Ben Johnson
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Ben Johnson (He/Him) is a Theatre Director, Dramaturg, Composer & Writer.
His recent credits include directing ‘Big Fish’ at Curve Theatre, Associate Directing on NERDS and Disney’s Freaky Friday, and directing a range of musical theatre and new writing projects.
He is available for directing, dramaturgy, development work, workshops, collaborations and new musical theatre projects.
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Elio Fantini
Elio Fantini (He/Him) is a Trans costume designer/maker and dresser.
He is currently dressing on Kinky Boots West End & designing Bush! The Musical for the Edinburgh Fringe.
Through his love of Queer history and subcultural fashion, he has built a solid foundation and set of skills surrounding both contemporary structural and historical draped costumes, but is especially interested in pattern cutting and textile work.
George Rennie
George Rennie is a writer/performer with a background in speculative genre theatre and classical adaptation whose work includes Hamstrung (Pleasance, The Glitch), Spirit Box (Pleasance), Up, Up, Up and Away! (online with Creation, Mercury and New Wolsey Theatres) and Entwined (Omnibus Theatre Engine Room '25).
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Emily Wollenberg
Emily Wollenberg (she/her) is a queer theatremaker, producer, writer, director, and actor based in East London. She's the creator of "The Lesbians of Forest Gate," and the co-creator/producer of "These Roots Are Made for Walking."She's available for collaborations, producing, and creative administrative work this summer!
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Evie Rostant
Evie Rostant (she/her) is a young queer stage manager and arts administrator. She has availability in June, and from August onwards, and is open to working on any type of project.
Please contact evie.rostant@gmail.com for further details.
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Ryan Graham Hinds
Ryan is a director, actor, and cabaret performer who'll be hosting and performing at the Dean Street Cabaret Stage at Pride in London 2026!
Credits/Website: Directing: The Elixir of Love (Bath Opera), A Christmas Carol (Shaw Festival), Heathers (Theatre Sheridan). Acting: Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life, Lydie-Anne in Lilies, Hedwig in Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Booker T. Washington in Ragtime. Cabaret: The Other Palace, #KanderAndEbb (Stratford Festival and international tour), Los Angeles Pride.
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Shane Lammond-Lynch
Shame (They/Them) is a dramatherapist and theatre-maker and Drag Folk Storyteller working across clinical practice and creative performance. Their work is shaped by a long-standing engagement with theatre, story, and embodied practice, and by a commitment to care, reflection, and ethical relationships.
Credits: The Poitín Maker's Child; Queer Lady M
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Jiaming Wang
Jiaming Wang (He/Him) is a London-based international theatre director, live performance artist and practice-led researcher exploring the intersections between experimental theatre and embodied experience, inviting sensory culture, atmosphere and the unconscious.
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Emma Bailey
Emma is a performer (triple-threat and aerialist), playwright, director, choreographer, Intimacy Director, and stage crew - a self-declared Jack of All Trades.
They recently created, produced and performed in my own show 'Pity Party', which premiered at The Bread and Roses Theatre, and are currently working as the Intimacy Director on the UK Tour of Grindr The Opera. They are available from July onwards.