Jackie Hagan is a multi award-winning poet, playwright, performer and activist as well as a queer, working-class amputee.
She is passionate about making theatre and creativity accessible for everyone. She's down to earth, a refreshing alternative to everything your eyes have seen before, disarming and energised by her anger at the barriers put in front of people.
Currently she is continuing to tour her award winning solo show 'This is Not a Safe Space', a reaction to her anger at the representation of working class disabled people in programmes like Benefits street and The Undateables. The show has visited places from Toronto to Burnley, as well as performing at the Staatstheatre in Mainz Germany, Southbank, Bristol Old Vic and many more. She is also part of 'Fantabulosa!', a touring drag troup who perform a show for 3-8 year olds about gender, sexuality, and not fitting in. She has just returned from a show curated by Jamie Hale at the Barbican where she got her stump out for a spot of stump puppetry.
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. 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. She's down to earth, a refreshing alternative to everything your eyes have seen before, disarming and energised by her anger at the barriers put in front of people.
Currently she is continuing to tour her award winning solo show 'This is Not a Safe Space', a reaction to her anger at the representation of working class disabled people in programmes like Benefits street and The Undateables. The show has visited places from Toronto to Burnley, as well as performing at the Staatstheatre in Mainz Germany, Southbank, Bristol Old Vic and many more. She is also part of 'Fantabulosa!', a touring drag troup who perform a show for 3-8 year olds about gender, sexuality, and not fitting in. She has just returned from a show curated by Jamie Hale at the Barbican where she got her stump out for a spot of stump puppetry.
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. 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.
