Jackie Hagan is a multi award-winning poet, playwright, performer and activist.
She is passionate about making theatre and creativity accessible for everyone, and this doesn't just mean putting ramps on a building. She is a working class, queer, dyslexic amputee with systemic sclerosis. She's down to earth, disarming, furious and energised by her anger at the barriers put in front of good people. She is bedsit avant garde and good with folk.
In 2018 she became a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellow and was nominated for a Women of the World award for effecting social change using spoken word. She has been awarded ‘Best Spoken Word Show’ Sabotuer award in 2016 and 2018 and is a regular on Radio Four. She has worked extensively for the British Council. She represented the UK in slam poetry in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and was the subject of a Channel Four documentary short. She has delivered over two thousand workshops in prisons, schools, hospitals and internationally. She has written for Attitude magazine, Diva magazine, Gay Star, and regularly crops up on BBC Radio Four, and BBC Ouch! She is a guest lecturer at Manchester Met university and an accessibility consultant.
She is passionate about making theatre and creativity accessible for everyone, and this doesn't just mean putting ramps on a building. She is a working class, queer, dyslexic amputee with systemic sclerosis. She's down to earth, disarming, furious and energised by her anger at the barriers put in front of good people. She is bedsit avant garde and good with folk.
In 2018 she became a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellow and was nominated for a Women of the World award for effecting social change using spoken word. She has been awarded ‘Best Spoken Word Show’ Sabotuer award in 2016 and 2018 and is a regular on Radio Four. She has worked extensively for the British Council. She represented the UK in slam poetry in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and was the subject of a Channel Four documentary short. She has delivered over two thousand workshops in prisons, schools, hospitals and internationally. She has written for Attitude magazine, Diva magazine, Gay Star, and regularly crops up on BBC Radio Four, and BBC Ouch! She is a guest lecturer at Manchester Met university and an accessibility consultant.
