Dear John Berger

About Leyla Josephine

Leyla Josephine is a poet, film and theatre maker from Glasgow. Her theatre show Daddy Drag was the winner of 2019 Autopsy Award celebrating artists making ground-breaking work in Scotland, her spoken-word show Hopeless was shortlisted for Saboteur’s Best Spoken Word show 2017. Her Creative Scotland-funded poetry book In Public/In Private was released last year with Burning Eye Books, and she was mentored by Kim Addonizio through the process. In 2022 she developed a play The Belly & The Beast with National Theatre of Scotland through The John Mathers Rising Star Theatre Award and her play Ms Campbell’s Class 4th Period was published with Bloomsbury Press in 2023 and performed globally as part of Wonderfools Positive Stories for Negative Times. Her spoken word album Archive:Live! was released in 2020.