Stephen M Hornby

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Stephen M Hornby 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 wrote and/or produced festival theatre each year for LGBT History Month from 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.

2015: 'A Very Victorian Scandal' by Stephen M Hornby & Ric Brady, historical adviser Jeff Evans, which dramatises the 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 & Dr Emma Vickers, which dramatises the life of a Victorian trans pioneer 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 Bugger's Ball' by Stephen M Hornby which dramatises a seminal public meeting about proposals to open the UKs first lesbian and gay centre in 1971 & 'Burnley's Lesbian Liberator' by Abi Hynes which dramatises an important battle for LGBT employment rights in 1978.

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