Martin Moriarty

Research Partner

Martin Moriarty marched against Section 28 in 1988. He is a queer theatre-maker integrating participants and professionals in the creative and performance process. He helped launch queer theatre company Inky Cloak in 2014 by re-casting John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi as a tragedy about transphobia set in 1950s London (Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 2014). Also for Inky Cloak, he wrote and co-directed We Raise Our Hands in the Sanctuary (The Albany, February 2017), which celebrated queer spaces while gentrification erased them; and Like a Song in the Dark (The Albany, April 2018), which explored the impact of homophobia and transphobia on LGBTQ+ care home residents. Over 2020 and 2021, he led the digital drama workshop Inside Out, helping queer elders write and perform dramatic monologues rooted in their own experience. His new show, Virginia Woolf’s Dog Training Academy, which re-examines the relationships between people and dogs through a queer lens, opens at Camden People’s Theatre in January 2024.