ABOUTSiobhán Fergus Evans (she / they) is a multi award-winning writer and interdisciplinary artist who deftly weaves poetry, theatre, and installation into tapestries saturated with lived experience and half-imagined fantastical landscapes.
Her work blurs the lines between autobiography and imagination to create modern folk-tales about displacement, belonging, and the uncertain territory of what might have been. Previous work includes (among other things): a digital puzzle made of light and colour, a storytelling performance designed to take place in forgotten spaces, a song collecting project about the songs our mothers sang us to sleep with, a room to say goodbye in, and a forest created from over a thousand donated sympathy cards. Siobhán's work has been shown at venues across the UK including the Southbank Centre, Tate Modern, Oxford Playhouse, and the Lowry and has been featured in publications like the Washington Post, the Guardian, and Time Out. She was previously Artist-In-Residence for Contact in Manchester and Associate Artist for The Albany in London. |
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Selected awards & commissions
Creative Director for I LOVE HUE and I LOVE HUE TOO, winner of The Webbys People’s Choice Award and shortlisted for a BAFTA and the Google Play IndieGames Award
Script Consultant on the BAFTA-award winning TV series Alma’s Not Normal
Recipient of the Word Factory Apprentice Award for Short Fiction
Recipient of the New Writing South NWS10 Award
ROVE, commissioned by The Lowry and Battersea Arts Centre and supported by Arts Council England
my heart it hitchhiking down peachtree street, commissioned by Contact and the Albany and supported by Arts Council England
Script Consultant on the BAFTA-award winning TV series Alma’s Not Normal
Recipient of the Word Factory Apprentice Award for Short Fiction
Recipient of the New Writing South NWS10 Award
ROVE, commissioned by The Lowry and Battersea Arts Centre and supported by Arts Council England
my heart it hitchhiking down peachtree street, commissioned by Contact and the Albany and supported by Arts Council England
SELECTED PUblications
On Euclid Ave, Flapjack Press 2013
my heart is hitchhiking down peachtree street, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013
'Poetic Interlude 4’ in Anarchism & Sexuality, Routledge, 2011
'An Altogether Different Type of Romance' in Fruit of the Trip Anthology, Versus, 2010
'The Hurricane' and 'On Euclid Ave' in Electric Sky, Bad Language 2010
my heart is hitchhiking down peachtree street, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013
'Poetic Interlude 4’ in Anarchism & Sexuality, Routledge, 2011
'An Altogether Different Type of Romance' in Fruit of the Trip Anthology, Versus, 2010
'The Hurricane' and 'On Euclid Ave' in Electric Sky, Bad Language 2010
Selected press
'A refreshing reminder of what can be achieved in theatre’ // REVIEWS HUB
‘laidback and engaging... like a traveling troubadour’ // GUARDIAN
'Gently perceptive... rich and unhurried’ // TOTAL THEATRE
'If you haven't heard of Fergus Evans, you soon will.' // THE PINK PAPER
'painfully, achingly full of love.' // EXEUNT MAGAZINE
‘laidback and engaging... like a traveling troubadour’ // GUARDIAN
'Gently perceptive... rich and unhurried’ // TOTAL THEATRE
'If you haven't heard of Fergus Evans, you soon will.' // THE PINK PAPER
'painfully, achingly full of love.' // EXEUNT MAGAZINE