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[[File:Stephen M Hornby.jpg|thumb|Stephen M Hornby]]'''Stephen M Hornby''' (born 1968) is a playwright. He was appointed as the first National Playwriter in Residence to [[LGBT History Month]] in September 2014.  He is also their first National Theatre Coordinator.  Stephen is an experienced professional playwriter and theatre director and producer, whose award-winning work includes ''Die Diana''.

Stephen M Hornby was born in London, was raised in Hertfordshire and to date has completed four degrees: BA Hons in Drama & Theatre Studies at the [[University of Kent]] (1987-1991), MA in Social Work at the [[UEA]] (1994-1996), MSt in Criminology, Penology & Management at [[Cambridge University]] and an MA in Playwriting at the [[University of Salford]] (2014-2016). As of 2016 he is researching a PhD in "Writing inter-male sex/uality history plays" with funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council.  In addition to his career in theatre, Stephen has worked as a Youth Worker, Probation Officer, and in various roles in Business Development for a FTSE 100 outsourcing company. 

Stephen writes and/or produces Festival Theatre each year for LGBT History Month and has done so since its inception in 2015 to mark the tenth anniversary of LGBT History Month in the UK.  Each piece is an original drama exploring the hidden history of the LGBT community in a historically literate way, working in collaboration with an academic adviser.  Festival Theatre is consistently the most popular and best attended event in the LGBT History Month calendar, and has been supported financially by the Arts Council of England and by private patrons including [[Russell T Davies]]. Festival Theatre pieces include:

*2015: ''A Very Victorian Scandal'' by Stephen M Hornby and [[Ric Brady]], historical adviser [[Jeff Evans]], which dramatises the [[1880 Manchester drag ball|largest raid by Police]] on an LGBT venue in the UK, which happened in Manchester in 1880.
*2016: ''Mister Stokes: The Man-Woman of Manchester'' by [[Abi Hynes]], historical advisers Prof [[Stephen Whittle]] and Dr [[Emma Vickers]], which dramatises the life of a Victorian trans pioneer [[Harry Stokes]] who was found drowned in the River Irwell in 1859.
*2016: ''Devils in Human Shape'' by [[Tom Marshman]] which dramatises Georgian sodomy trials from [[Bristol]].
*2017: ''[[The Burnley Buggers' Ball]]'' by Stephen M Hornby which dramatises [[1971 Burnley meeting|a seminal public meeting]] about proposals to open the UK's first lesbian and gay centre in 1971 and ''[[Burnley's Lesbian Liberator]]'' by Abi Hynes which dramatises an important battle for LGBT employment rights in 1978.

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