Home with Marcus Bateson and Kiah Ronaldson

Join Marcus and Kiah as they discuss the piece "Where Things Used to be" and explore what it means to return to a changed home, growing up LGBT in the countryside. gentrification, embracing the small details of life and how to write during an isolating pandemic. It's a fun and engaging conversation so get comfy, make yourself some tea or coffee and enjoy today's episode of Voice Notes, the new writing podcast! If you'd like to be featured on a future episode of the podcast then send us an email at [email protected] with a little information about your previous work and what you currently writing. ABOUT THE WRITER: Marcus is an award-winning playwright and theatre director, based between Cork and Dublin. He is a graduate of BA Drama Studies and English Literature at Trinity College Dublin, where he was an active member of the Dublin University Players Society, working as the Festivals and Workshops Coordinator in 2018/19. He completed his research dissertation on “LGBT Subjectivities and Neoliberalism within Contemporary Irish Theatre” for which he received a First-Class Honours. He is the Co-Director of Mac Tíre Theatre, which has showcased his writing and direction in The Samuel Beckett Centre, The Workman’s Club, Scene + Heard Festival and The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF). These plays have included TIDAL, a devised physical theatre piece responding to the threat of flooding in Cork City, and Outlier, a queer testimonial monologue discussing consent and pink capitalism. His play A Man of no Importance was awarded the IDGTF Larry Kramer Bursary and was published alongside his play Outlier in the LGBT Anthology The Plays Inside. He is a participant in the Dublin FringeLAB 50 programme in which he is developing work with the mentorship of Soho Theatre. He has produced and written work online recently, organising writing projects including The Bedroom Plays and The Sanctuary Project which were shared by Mac Tíre Theatre. His writing has also been featured by Stoa Collective, an online artist collective of which he is the curator.  He is also the producer of a new writing podcast Voice Notes which features the work of up and coming writers. Using mediums of theatre, poetry and prose, his work reflects on themes of contemporary queer identities, class, loneliness, and capitalism. He has also worked as an editor and writer for The University Times and GCN as well as a radio presenter for Juice FM.