@helenarney.bsky.social
Musical Theatre writer @firebrigademusical.bsky.social, The Unstoppable Letty Pegg. Sometimes geek songstress/scientist/stand-up. Mum x2. 1/3 fotsn.bsky.social. She/her. π· @idisukan
A copy of "The Unstoppable Letty Pegg" and sheet music for one of the songs I've written for the show with James Hughes
Prepping for a week in Canterbury, workshopping "The Unstoppable Letty Pegg - the musical" with @nymt.org.uk... the dream is coming true! We have an amazing young company, director, choreographer, MD and more in the room - plus a Q&A with Letty's book-mum @iszi.com.
Get ready for LONDON CHAOS!
ncredible scenes!
I applied a second (final) time for a DYCP grant from @artscouncilengland.bsky.social and... I got it!
From September, I'm developing my bookwriting skills for youth companies & coming up with new ideas for British Musicals to nurture towards production over the coming years π
So so glad my one woman PR campaign for Ride is working out πππ
26.07.2025 12:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Digging into the Science Museum archive today, and found this: an original notebook of Hertha Ayrtonβs research into fans πͺ
Also found a Suffragette Society letterhead being used as a bookmark in a science journal ππͺπ₯
Hertha Ayrton Fan Club assemble! We have some big things coming soonβ¦
Oh dear! I managed to tag @iszio.bsky.social instead of @iszi.com... apologies to both!
05.06.2025 11:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Throw back to June 2023 when we sent "Unstoppable" from The Unstoppable Letty Pegg into the Stiles+Drewe Best New Song Prize... and Sienna Aurora Clarke sang it in the final concert! πββοΈ π₯ πͺ
Now we're about to workshop the rest of the show based on @iszio.bsky.social's book with @nymt.org.uk π€― π€© π²
Dr Neil Gostling FLS
Audience members at Pint of Science
Helen Arney performing with ukelele
Neil and Helen after the event
What a night #PintOfScience was on 20 May! @neilgostling.bsky.social shattered dodo myths with science & wit, then @helenarney.bsky.social stole the show with songs, smarts & a ukulele.
Extinct birds + geek comedy = a Tuesday treat. Thanks for the laughs, facts & full house! @pintofscience.uk
You are the kindest. It is a story that NEEDS to be told!
03.06.2025 10:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Screengrab of first page of a picture book text called "HELP! I'm trapped inside a squid!" with a cartoon squid creeping across the top of the page.
Kid's publishing people, and adjacents!
I've written a draft of a kids picture book text in a genre I'm calling GIANT SQUID MAGICAL REALISM.
My 4 year old and 8 year old like it, but does anyone want to have a look at it?
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Not yet! Though several BBC producers have had the same idea it seems⦠2 months I made a (shorter, more selective) rare earth version of the same song for More Or Less with Tim Harford :) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
11.05.2025 18:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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08.05.2025 20:48 β π 131 π 32 π¬ 5 π 5
A poster showing a woman singing. It's for an event called 'Showtime', on the 24th of May at the Stage Door in Southampton.
If you're in Southampton at the end of the month, you should go to The Stage Door and hear them sing some of the songs from @firebrigademusical.bsky.social (the musical I'm writing with @jennipinnock.com and @helenarney.bsky.social !)
thestagedoor.org.uk/product.php/...
Happy Birthday Hertha Ayrton! Physicist, inventor, science communicator, social activist and founder of the Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade:
youtube.com/watch?v=lkiU...
A rare solo show from me, doubling up with an even rare dodo expert⦠what a team!
15.04.2025 18:03 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
π§ͺ Science... 𦀠Dodos.... πΆ Ukuleles!
We're back at Pint of Science again on Tues 20 May, 6 - 8pm: @neilgostling.bsky.social reveals the dodoβs wild side, then @helenarney.bsky.social hits you with sharp wit & science songs.
Expect surprises, LOLs & maybe singalongs. π»
Book here: bit.ly/3G3hGIH
Was a pleasure to bring it to the party!
12.04.2025 12:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Check out the updated version we helped produce in 2019 with @helenarney.bsky.social, the Waterbeach Brass Band and chemists from around the world!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDY...
#ChemSky #ScienceSky #MusicSky
Happy Tom Lehrer Day to everyone!
Especially to Tom Lehrer βοΈπ§ͺπΉ
youtu.be/hzvVLK9Y048
That should say Jenni, Brian and myself... but hey, I'm the only one without an ear cut off in the graphic so I think it's obvious that I'm the third in the trio :)
07.04.2025 14:59 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Sharing brilliant news that @jennipinnock.com and @mackenwells.bsky.social are part of Lincoln Arts Centre's 2025 Innovate Artist intake!
Can't wait to work with local talent to bring @firebrigademusical.bsky.social to life here - one of our Fire Fighters is Lincoln-born Charlotte Scott! π₯π₯π₯
Head over here to find out what Iβve been wanging on about for a year and a half so farβ¦
29.03.2025 13:57 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Ready for some sparks to fly? Head over to our website to watch our showcase filmed at Birmingham Hippodrome earlier this month! firebrigademusical.com/about/
28.03.2025 16:22 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 2The showcase recording of our fire brigade musical is here! Head to the link to see what the fabulous @helenarney.bsky.social , @mackenwells.bsky.social and I have been up to this year (aside from spending 30 minutes on single bars of music of course..)
29.03.2025 09:27 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0It was a single 7 4 bar in my head... or some other madness... this may have been part of the problem...
28.03.2025 18:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Happy World Theatre day, to anyone and everyone who feels seen by this...
27.03.2025 22:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sometimes writing a musical involves spending 30 minutes on a zoom call "discussing" a single bar in a song in ever decreasing circles of madness and then adding one SINGLE WORD and the song is suddenly 3,000% better and everyone is happy (PS love you @jennipinnock.com @mackenwells.bsky.social)
27.03.2025 22:31 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 2
Happy Ο Day everyone! This year we collided some masses together.
In practise: youtu.be/vlUTlbZT4ig
And in theory: youtu.be/6dTyOl1fmDo
We nailed those fire drills! Thanks to Birmingham Hippodrome, the entire New Musicals team, cast and crew for two amazing New Musicals Showcases yesterday. It was brilliant to share the sparks of our musical with so many people!
07.03.2025 08:36 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Five performers at stands with a band behind them and red/orange lighting.
Our fabulous fire brigade at last week's showcase! From left to right: Elena Pitsiaeli, Courtney Stapleton, Rosie Coles, Elexi Walker and Maddison Bulleyment.
Birmingham Hippodrome π·@danny_with_a_camera
Maths & English teachers - what is your experience (if any) of collaboration between the two subjects?
Please take part in this joint @mathematicala.bsky.social /
@englishassociation.bsky.social survey app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/gsoe/engli...
