Alexandra Taylor: Writer

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On 16th September 2019 there was introductory event at Birmingham REP that aimed to share initial plans for the  Birmingham 2022 Culture Programme with creatives in the region. These are the main points that I came away with. If you were there and think I missed anything out, or got anything wrong, please feel free to drop me a line and let me know. Amit Sharma - Deputy Artistic Director, Birmingham REP 60% of Birmingham school kids are non-white. 1/3 of Birmingham school kids live below the poverty line. The REP's audience should reflect the city. Four key aims: to create popular theatre to focus on representation (diversity) to connect with the community to work with schools Martin Green - Chief Executive Creative Officer, Birmingham 2022 The Cultural Festival will run from Easter to September 2022. The festival team is currently three people: Martin, Phil and Rachel, with four vacancies currently open (until 22nd September). They're curre...

I never see myself portrayed on TV. In fact, I rarely see characters like my friends or family, or the worlds I inhabit, on screen. And that's OK. I'll happily watch dramas about lawyers or aliens or Russian nuclear disasters. But the stories and characters that really hit home, that take over my head and my heart to the point where I'm heading to online discussion forums, reading the scrips, watching YouTube interviews with the writers, even penning my own fan fiction - those are the ones with worlds and characters that I know, that I've met, that I understand and relate to. It just happens so rarely that when it does it hits me like a sledgehammer. The first time I remember feeling that punch was with Queer As Folk. I knew people like that, I understood that world. The bars, bitchiness and hedonism of Manchester's Canal Street reflected my own experiences of Birmingham's gay village. I was seeing an aspect of my life portrayed on screen for the first ...