Join us for a panel discussion supported by Homotopia & hosted by DIVA
Queer representation on our stages and screens is seeing a bit of a renaissance at the moment, in shows such as It’s a Sin and Heartstopper. Yet we must ask ‘where are all the lesbians’?
Join DIVA and panellists for a fascinating discussion about queer women’s representation now and historically on our screens and stage, and what the future might be.
The panellists are Alex Ogden Clark, Dr. Rowena Gander, Melissa Lowe & Jessica Meade, and the event will be chaired by Eleanor Noyce, from DIVA magazine.
Eleanor Noyce
Eleanor Noyce is the Junior Staff Writer at DIVA Magazine, the leading publication for LGBTQIA women and non-binary people. Specialising in LGBTQIA culture and sex and relationships, she champions disability and bisexuality in her content. Elsewhere, she has by-lines in The Independent, Refinery29, Stylist, i-D and more.
Alex Ogden Clark
Alex Ogden Clark is a columnist, comedian and literal lipstick lesbian: they’re most known for painting faces all over the UK and on BBC’s Glow Up.
Dr. Rowena Gander
As an international performance artist with a PhD in dance practices, Rowena creates thought provoking solo performance works that question and negotiate themes of sexuality, power and objectification in women. Since 2015 she has worked the stigmatised vertical pole to tease out how objects can add to or dissolve female subordination.
Melissa Lowe
Melissa is currently playing Taylor in A Billion Times I Love You.
Theatre credits include: Bex in Hungry (Soho Theatre/ ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall - Edinburgh Festival Fringe); June in Gypsy (Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester); Belle in A Christmas Carol (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest (Octagon Theatre Bolton); Sally in The Cat in the Hat (Leicester Curve/UK Tour) and Me and My Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre).
TV credits include: The Midwich Cuckoos on Sky.
Jessica Meade
Jessica is the director of A Billion Times I Love You.
She studied at the University of Leeds reading Theatre and Performance. She is currently on attachment training to the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse as one of six young directors in training as part of the YEP Directors course, and has recently been selected by the JMK Trust to receive mentorship as one of twenty-five directors across the UK.
Everyman & Playhouse credits: Cherry Jezebel (Assistant Director), Build a Rocket (YEP Directors’ Festival 2021) at the Everyman and Nite Life (part of the Homotopia QueerCore development programme) at the Playhouse.
Jessica is the co-founder of FLOOD Theatre company and is working with the Unity theatre to develop touch.
Free with a Fri 7 Oct ticket for A Billion Times I Love You.
