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Homing Bird is an LGBTQIA+ community-interest theatre company - examining the comic and tragic, starting conversations and letting ideas fly, with the aim of bringing theatre in the form of queer stories to  underrepresented audiences.

Here we believe art brings people together and bridges generations. 
We want our productions to contribute to this togetherness – we see them as a way to give back to society and an expression of the individuality we each bring to the world. 

We strive to take audiences to places they've not been before, questioning the unquestioned and highlighting new experiences, with emphasis on exploring the connection between comedy and tragedy, seamlessly weaving them together. We don't want to tread ground already covered - we want to be the ones who start conversations, creating theatre which is made by and for the LGBTQIA+ community. Our work should feel like flying home: comforting, fun, but also brave and challenging.

CHIARA VIRGILIO

Co-Founder & Director

Chiara is a migrant and queer-identifying theatre director from Milan (Italy), graduated from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on their BA Contemporary Performance Practice: Drama, Applied Theatre and Education course with First Class Honours. She is the Project Manager of PSYCHEdelight Theatre Company of Sanctuary and the Assistant Practitioner of Kiln Theatre's Minding the Gap project, as well as a member of the Director's Cut Theatre Company. Chiara has devised and directed live and digital performances in 12 languages both in London and Milan, exploring themes of migration, multilingualism, mental health and queerness.

JONNY PEYTON-HILL

Co-Founder & Writer-Performer

Jonny is a queer-identifying writer-performer and a graduate of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on their BA Acting (Collaborative and Devised Theatre) course. He has also previously trained with Project A and the National Youth Theatre. As an actor he has recently appeared in the immersive Jurassic World Exhibition (ExCel London), Dick Whittington (Above the Stag Theatre), James Smith - My Oh My (music video) and The Wizard of Oz (Newcastle Theatre Royal). In his writing, he emphasises LGBTQ+ voices, hopes to normalise the queer experience and synonymously stirs up a bit of anarchy. He is fascinated by comedy-drama and aims to both confront and entertain an audience.

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