Chesca Joy
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FIRST DRAFT OF MY NEW PLAY SENT OFF
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😳💪🏼😍💅🏼💕😫😥😷🖤
That is how I feel right now
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#amwriting
#writerslife
#artistslife
#Jadek
#growth
#allthefeels
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WRITERS, THIS ONE'S FOR YOU!
24 hours left to apply to be part of
#WritersToolbox
for the next 6 months 🎭🎬
Criteria:
– Emerging writers
– Identify as female & working class
– Aged 25+
– Based in West Yorkshire (or originally from here & able to travel)
DEADLINE - 12PM 15 FEB
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Oh my god. My heart is MELTING! Just rang my grandad for the 1st time in my whole life as he now has a special mobile phone with big buttons (Hes blind & wears a hearing aid) He managed to answer the phone & could hear me really clearly & we talked & laughed & oh my heart 💔💔💔
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I'm getting right excited now 😋😋😋 and scared. Always scared. 😅
@YorkTheatre
@Phoenixblyth
@DerbyTheatre
@thesjt
@shoeboxswindon
@castindoncaster
@theatredelishef
@squarechapel
@SlungLow
@BarnsleyCivic
@imagine_if_co
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I HAVE NEVER, EVER, EVER IN MY LIFE WORKED IN A THEATRE WITH SOMEONE ELSE FROM CASTLEFORD
AND TODAY, LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THERE WERE THREE OF US FUCKERS!!!!!!
CAS MAFIA COMING AT YA
#workingclasstheatre
#atitsfinest
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Filming at my Grandads house has been HARD!!
Is he ok? Is there too many people? Is it too stressful for him? THE LIST GOES ON 😥
After being there 12 hours today, he put both of his hands on mine & said "Thankyou very much" No idea what I've done but he broke my whole heart 💔
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I've been wanting to write a play about me & my Grandad since I moved in to care for him over a year ago. He's the kindest man I know even though I'm always in trouble with him for being naughty. The play will explore culture, identity & migration & is going to be fanfuckintastic
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It took me 2 hours to leave the house. I've been for a little walk in Ilkley & now sat in the pub. I've told my anxiety to fuck off & I'm writing my new play. I've got a glass of wine. Sclub7 are playing. There's only 4 people in the whole pub. My best Christmas day so far 🎅
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I hate all the standard wanky arts meetings where its all empty talk and nothing changes, so twas proper nice to have a real discussion today with
@FreelancersITD
@dickbonham
@TGordziejko
@jennevauger
@RuanCooper
💛
Me &
@imagine_if_co
are here if you guys need owt!
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Love love loved
@WorksWithWords
@kasharshad
@adellestripe
play
#BlackTeethandaBrilliantSmile
@SlungLow
yesterday! Cracking script, cracking actors & a cracking production!! Loved it that much I even bought the script 😘
Big love guys 💛
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2 weeks of worrying, difficult times but he is on the mend 🎉🎉🎉
My favourite person ❤
#grandadandgranddaughter
#dreamteam
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🎉
@edfringe
schedule sorted 🎉 Tickets booked:
#RomanCandle
#BuildARocket
#Status
#InLoyalCompany
#Adlibido
#Tarzan
#AllWeEverWanted
Hooking up with
@whiteandgivan
2 old friends, my american girl & my Scottish fam! Highland games in Aberdeen thrown in there too
#3daysofmadness
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5 days of
@IETM
and I got SO MUCH TO SAY 😍 👌🏼 Will write about it ALL later as I'm now getting pissed on a train to London to persuade some rich people to give
@imagine_if_co
money, coupla meetings & seeing our
#CillianMurphy
in a show
#GriefistheThing
#IETMHull
#artsaveslives
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Had the worst two weeks of my entire life and want to publicly thank my
@imagine_if_co
girls. Without them these last 2 weeks I couldn't tell you what would have happened.
Best advice I can give ya to work in the arts - find your circle and keep them close
#bosswomen
#mygirls
❤
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And now I'm writing a spin off film version to
#Jadek
called
#MyOldMan
(working title)
My Grandad will always be my main man ❤
#GrandadandGrandaughter
#DreamTeam
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COME BE MY RIDE OR DIE
I am a bit of a dickhead but I also work really hard and I'm a good person (and sometimes people say I'm talented and that.) Also my company and team are amazing 🙌🏼
I want all you working class producers to apply for this!!!!!
⭐️COME WORK WITH US ⭐️
Position: Producer
Salary: £32,500 pro-rata
Hours/Days Required: 2 days per week (Looking for someone to join us for the long term)
Location: Based at our Leeds office and across Yorkshire
Start: ASAP
FULL JOB DESCRIPTION HERE:
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This girl 🥰🥰🥰
She's completely had my back over the last 4 weeks. Hand on heart couldnt have done this shit without her.
@lucyrafton
gets the award for being the ultimate understudy legend 💛
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Really impressed by
#Europe
👌🏼
it's one of the bravest things I've seen the
@LeedsPlayhouse
do!! Loved the use of lighting throughout and big up to the cracking ensemble team who brought it 🙌🏼
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#wildconference
was way more than I ever expected it to be. It's too much to put into tweets. If you were there, you know what I'm talking about. Engaging discussions, relaxed environment, a real sense of hope, revelations, people being kind (for real), honesty, connecting, truth
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And I feel really weird & can't put my finger on it
So I analyse how I'm feeling, what I'm thinking, where my body aches, I then realise what the feeling is
This is the 1st house in YEARS that I actually feel "safe" in
And it's fucking beautiful
"Things take time my dear" 2/2
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So so so honoured and overwhelmed that the legend
@KenLoachSixteen
is supporting my first play
#YouForgotTheMince
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I fly to India today. To travel the country. On my own. For a month. Am I scared? Hell yeah. Am I ready? I think so. Will I die? Maybe. This is hands down the scariest thing I've ever done...
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Me and my Grandad shared a very early birthday bbq together for my 30th and his 95th.
It wa right lovely it wa 💛
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I've been self isolating for a while now in order to become my 95 year old Grandads full time carer again.
He told me this morning I'm going to send him crackers.
I'm trying my best.
#dayone
#selfisolatingwithgrandad
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My boy done good 👌🏼👌🏼
Saw
@leonfleming
@SidThePlay
@braduniarts
last night and loved it from start to finish!! He's such a talented writer 😍
Cracking acting and directing from
@DarioCoates
&
@le_crass
too 🙌🏼
It's on tonight's
@Seven_Arts
GO SEE IT ITS FUCKING MINT
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Tonight is my first night performing live since covid, been non stop working on this production for 6 months & I've got all the feels 😬
Then I get this!! The only good luck charm I need...My Old Man
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I tried to guide him round the garden today (he is fully blind) he wouldn't let me help him and he said "i have to learn meself, if i no learn meself, how will i ever learn?"
Wisdom right there kids 💫💫💫
#selfisolatingwithgrandad
#myoldman
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Thoroughly impressed at the level of talent at this year's
@SlungLowShorts
👌🏼
So lovely to see so many people I know smashing it. Big love guys 💛
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When the audience won't stop clapping, they all return for the Q&A and state it's the "best piece of theatre they've seen" you know you're doing your job properly 🙌🏼 Honored to perform in
#Armley
a place I've lived in and loved for a long time 🎭
#artsaveslives
#armleygoodstuff
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Four star review from
@TheStage
for "You Forgot The Mince" by
@imagine_if_co
Over the chuffing moon! 🌙
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Excitement in the air, lots of provocations about things that matter, everyone pitching in, sunshine, space to breathe, great food, music, glass ceiling smashed, old & new friends, difficult subjects broached, learning, sharing, debates, safe spaces, love💛
Same again next year?
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Hyped. Hyped. Hyped.
Breakthrough mutherf***ers.
My art is taking a new direction.
I can finally be ME.
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh boy 🎉💪🏼💕🌻😍👑🙋🏼♀️💫🍾🎊🎭🎨☀️🌈🎼🎥✏
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I am appalled at this situation.
Mum's getting more action than me.
She's just met a guy on Tinder.
I'm twenty nine, she's sixty three.
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"You sure this is what you're looking for?
"Yeah they're perfect"
"They're my 10 year old daughters"
"And?!?"
#rollingthroughlife
#bestweekend
#wonalltheraces
#champ
#free
#nofucksgiven
#littlefeet
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5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for
#YouForgotTheMince
@hopemilltheatr1
written
@francescajoy1
directed by
@stephenwhitson
🎭
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Life is really hard for me a lot of the time and I worry if I am doing the 'right' thing daily. But no matter what the outcome is of my battle, I think we have done some fucking incredible work that I will always be proud of... 3/3
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Then I get home to my grandad and tell him all about it which ends with me saying:
"So you going to come and see my show then Grandad?"
"Who me??? Noooooooo"
Well thanks Grandad, thanks 😂
2/2
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Been working with
@theActorsGang
& totally blown away by the braveness of the prisoners who work with them. Talented beyond belief. Dedicated to growth. Ready for change. If I wore a hat, I would take it off to them
#artsaveslives
#theatre
#imagineif
#fuckthesystem
#sharethelove
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It's incredible what a bit of self care can do for you. And a high dosage of antidepressants. And wine. Wine always helps. And sleep. And fake tan. And vitamins. And pretending you don't give a fuck. I haven't mastered the art of not giving a fuck at all yet. But pretending helps
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My very first hairdressing client 💇🏻♂️💇🏻♂️💇🏻♂️
#whatdayevenisit
#selfisolatingwithgrandad
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Happy to be spending this weekend with my crew 💛
@whiteandgivan
@AffenAudio
@TamsinSarahCook
@ellevictoriamon
@RachaelMcG0
@Dramatikat
@hebdenblog
@sarasherwood
@brettinthecity
@hannaheugenie
& Tilly, David, Kate & Andrew
And you two in spirit
@djdonthewire
@dukeofbeeston
💛
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Gdad: "I might be dead for chreesmas"
Chesca: "No. You can die after christmas but not before christmas ok? If you die before christmas i'll kill you"
Gdad: "Hokay Hokay...I no die afore chreesmas"
Grandads poorly at the moment, please send him healthy vibes in your thoughts x
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My little tiny Grandad is poorly, can you all please say a prayer for him to get better ❤️
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Most of the time I feel uneasy as fuck around people in the arts. Today one of them (who totally didn't have to) reached out to tell me I'm not a dickhead. Which sounds mega weird out of context but it was really fucking lovely 💛
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#HappyInternationalWomensDay
to all the women I know and am yet to have the honour of meeting!
Thank you for being you 💕
As a company full of women and led by women, we
#ChooseToChallenge
gender bias & inequality for women through our work.
#HappyInternationalWomensDay
to all you wonderful women out there, without you none of our work would have been possible 👑👑👑
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Today marks an important day.
After TWENTY SIX MONTHS of soul destroying waiting, I had my first therapy session.
Good job I'm still alive & kicking to attend it eh?
@Jeremy_Hunt
@theresa_may
#MentalHealthAwareness
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SUPER DUPER proud of the
@imagine_if_co
team today - performing at
@Clinks_Tweets
event & I'm at the otherside of the world nervous & rooting for them 👊🏼 1st time they doing it without me 😢 Got butterflies in my tummy, can't wait to speak to them to find out how it went ❤
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Not done something that makes me feel invincible in a few months so gone & done this...
Going travelling around India ON MY OWN and working with the children in the slums for a month. I CANNOT WAIT 🤗☀️🌈🌎✈️🛵🏝🏔🕌💕⭐️🥘🍹🎭🎬🌇📝🇮🇳
P.S I'm scared to death 😂
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I've met THREE incredible women today. Powerful, articulate, interesting, brave women.
Then ONE man comes along and ruins it. Indecisive, cocky, lazy, arrogant man.
Women are just the bees knees!!
I will be taking no questions at this time.
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Obvs had to have a mini Photoshoot in Hollywood 😜
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#hollywood
#america
#travelling
#working
#playing
#exploring
#memyselfandi
#goals
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I turn the big THIRTY in 2 weeks time 😳😳😳 And I'm sat here eating coco pops, with a spoon, straight from the box whilst planning my nap time. And I'm wondering if I can still do this when I get old?
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@DesignerKTScott
Raise this with whichever company you are working with! Companies should have plans in place to avoid this situation & if it happens, ensure they spend the time & money doing everything possible to make women safe. My company
@imagine_if_co
included! Please get home safe x
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Support your local theatre company
Help young people have a voice
Make a difference in the world
Then come for drinks after 🤗✌🏼🍻
THURS 12 APRIL
@carriageworks_
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Had a lovely day with me mum, she came to help me with DIY and painting all day at my house.
We belly laughed all day long with only the occasional threat of her clouting me 😅
What a perfect day 💖
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My dear lord. I could honestly kill him at times.
If he was 5 not 95 he would defo be on the naughty step today!
#Day28484849
#Selfisolatingwithgrandad
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Fantastic day of auditions then got taken out for dinner
#mydirectorsbetterthanyours
as you can see he also loves it when I take selfies 😋
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After 2 days I was finally allowed to go see him and as a true soldier he was on top form for me! He told me the nurses have asked him how old he is and they might be after him 😂 here is him doing his exercises for me ❤ thank you all for the love and support everyone x
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A lovely video sent to me by my fam on my birthday as I couldn't be with Grandad.
Apparently I've got a "good brain" 😂
He would NEVER say that to me! I think he thought the video had ended ❤
#grandadandgranddaughter
#dreamteam
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Working from home today.
The bin men arrive.
The bin men are banging.
I did not know this.
I shall work from home every bin collection day.
Progress.
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Even though my heart stopped beating last month, these 2 can still make my heart sing...
@whiteandgivan
ladies & gentlemen - the best of the best. They understand me & my work more than I knew was possible.
It's been 4 years since I met them & they're now stuck with me for life💃
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Working with 2 of my fav ladies
@TamsinSarahCook
@djdonthewire
yesterday and I put on a great feast for all!
Here's Deborah enjoying the solitary vegetarian sausage she was provided with
I'm sure everyone is now really looking forward to our board away day lunch next week 😂
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I don't talk about my Grandma much coz it hurts like hell.
I think about her all the time but also try not to think about her coz that hurts like hell too.
Saw this picture tonight & it brings back how close we were. You raised me Grandma. I'd give anything to have you back 💔 💔
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We talked about oppression & migration. Race & class status. PTSD & naughty kids. We met my beautiful Grandad and played dominoes (which I won) then met Wendy who threatened to kill the school children and we drank tea. The day ended with a pint and a belly full of smiles 2/2
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Please for the love of God, help my stress levels and help me find a stage manager!! 🥺
@slunglowalan
@ActLukeAdamson
@AmandaHuxtable
@WAPtheatre
@bottc
@RedDixon57
@EvieManning
@EveralWalsh
@FlameyFisher
@FillouxPastry
@AlisonMaryFord
@MtGstudios
@laurynredding
@WorksWithWords
We are still in need of a stage manager, we were let down at very short notice & really struggling to find someone who is free as understandably everyone is on Christmas jobs now!
1 month of work on a small scale theatre tour
3rd Nov - 3rd Dec
£2096 plus travel on tour
HELP 🙏
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Today we are throwing it back to a time when we could go outside...
#Dayfive
#Selfisolationwithgrandad
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He went and got his book, signed it for me & went & bought it for me at the till 💛
Then he gave me his contact details for me to get in touch about
@imagine_if_co
prison work 🙌🏼
#silverlining
#goodpeople
#williambaker
#actsofkindness
#totallymademyday
#universegotmyback
2/2
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There is no Day 4 video. Coz i had two bottles of wine for my tea.
#Dayfour
#Selfisolatingwithgrandad
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Very excited for the
#Fringe
this year, booked to see
@danielbye
#goingviral
@stefsmith
#swallow
@412productions
#nightanddaze
&
@NewsRevue
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Nice little Saturday night telling off by my old man 😂
(He's chopping up a load of celery for me - but what makes this beautiful is that he's nearly 98 years old and fully blind so it's a hell of a task for him)
#grandadandgrandaughter
#dreamteam
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Oh god 😢 crying coz I'm SO PROUD of the
@imagine_if_co
team. I'm unbelievably blessed to have such amazing, inspiring & committed people that work with us. It's been a long, hard & scary 4 years setting up my own company & now look at us 🤩 1/2
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The wonderful
@sheena_east
of St Vincents Leeds is delivering me a christmas dinner tomorrow. I can't explain how much this means, as well as being completely alone on Christmas Day, i'm also unable to make myself food due to not being able to stand for longer than 10 mins...
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In so much pain and really sad i dont get to be with grandad so to have someone come and bring me an actual christmas meal on christmas day means the world ❤ Thankyou so much
@sheena_east
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1. Travelling India alone.
2. Getting funded to work in prisons across California using arts to make a difference to their lives.
3. Staying alive.
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I am putting this so people are aware I will not be replying to anything at the moment. I have been with the police for the last few days. Please do not speak to me about the case or about the press. My heart is broken and my world has collapsed. Thank you for your kind words 💔
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I need a good stage manager. Someone who is a decent human being who can do sound & lights & shit I have no idea about. They get to come on tour with me for a month. I'm a bit annoying but I'm really funny.
3 Nov - 3 Dec
£2096 plus travel
Northern based
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I'VE JUST WRITTEN THE BEST TREATMENT FOR A NEW TV SERIES
👌🏼💁🏼♀️🌻💃🏼💪🏼💅🏽💛👑💸✏🎬📽📺
*Putting this on here as a reminder in years to come where this amazing journey started!! Or to remember where I wasted the next 2-3 years of my life. Either way here goes 😋
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Thank you for sending my old man positive vibes, he is back in full health & back to superhero levels! Thank you all SO MUCH for the love, you all helped him get better!
@iain_bloomfield
@lucyrafton
@rhirhibeee
@emmaleahG
@ODziwaczka
@msvhf
@MawhinneyDesign
@KE_Wright1
@JulieED13
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I'm developing my new play
#Jadek
for
@imagine_if_co
so yesterday I took my 2 beautiful directors
@iain_bloomfield
&
@ChiLikeTheTea
to my hometown of
#Castleford
and we began the day with lunch in the local caff 1/2
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One of Grandad’s carers always jokes to him when she knows I’m coming round
“Don’t you two be fighting in street”
So I say to grandad “If we had a fight Grandad, you’d win wunt ya?”
Grandad says “If I blew air outta my mouth...you would fall over”
Charming.
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IM FREE ❤
Thankyou for all the support & msgs, means a lot! Got to go back for tests but over the worst & no longer a high risk 🙌🏼
Big shout out to my angels for looking after me in hospital & the whole
@imagine_if_co
team for being so amazing while I've been out of it 👌🏼
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My sister recently gave me a load of things from my childhood and i've just opened them...
I always told people I started writing at 21. GUYS I BEEN WRITING SINCE I WAS 5.
No questions whilst I process my secret history.
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@snoopfish
@KE_Wright1
@mrsmallaghan
@TonneTwo
@SarahOldknowAct
@emmaleahG
@ODziwaczka
@slty42
@dukeofbeeston
@irenejadedesign
@OneSeptemberArt
@ShaziaAshraf
all your healing thoughts did wonders ❤❤❤
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My grandad has fallen & banged his head, in hospital & has now tested positive for covid
Hospital are refusing to let any of us go & I'm crying my eyes out worried to death about him being alone
My grandad is 97, fully blind & has dementia.
Can you all please pray for him 💔
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So today I won* a BAFTA and National Television Award 🎉🎉🎉
It has been a long time coming!!! 😪
I'd like to thank myself for being such a legend.
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*stole (from the stupidly talented
@dukeofbeeston
) but we can all pretend can't we?
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@leonfleming
@imagine_if_co
@SlungLow
@Lulovesglitter
@ClaireMarie333
@cpoconnor87
@dermot_daly
@CarolynEden
@AishaKhanCatley
@rhirhibeee
@FayeDawsonPR
@SarahOldknowAct
🙌🏼 there was no divide in the room. No pandering to speak to the important person over there. There was no ego!! Polish people translating, people with visual impairments, people with convictions, care leavers & carers, people who dont go to the theatre & people that do 💛
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