Hello! If you’re reading this, it means that I have finally lost my game of digital hide-and-seek. You’ve found me. For over a quarter of a century, I have actively, stubbornly, and somewhat proudly resisted having a website. As Darth Vader remarked, ‘The Luddite is strong with this one.’ But I have finally accepted that this is not a game I can ever win. People actually want to get in touch, or learn about what I do, and if I don’t make it easy for them, they will discover other ways of doing it, ways that are inefficient, inaccurate, and often downright wrong. So if you want to get in touch, please do. My email address is right there, on my desk. And if you want to learn about what I do, there’s the rest of this site. But what do I do? When I go into schools I say to children, ‘I’ve got lots of different jobs, and they’re all to do with theatre.’ That’s about as accurate as you will get. I am a playwright. I am a theatre director. I am a dramaturg. I am a teacher. I am a mentor. I am a company director. Sometimes I am all of these in the same week, occasionally in the same afternoon, and I delight in mixing all of these disciplines up. Ordering this into a website seemed impossible, but if there’s one thing that resonates through everything I have done, it is this: in theatre, nothing is impossible because it’s all pretend. What I have ended up with is not neat or corporate because that’s not me. It’s a messy desk. It is a reflection of how my brain works and how theatrical collaboration actually happens: through play, good intentions, and a healthy dose of controlled chaos. Please, have a poke around. I hope that playing on this site gives you a decent understanding of who I am and the kind of work I make. Or, at the very least, it kills five minutes, puts a smile on your face, and makes you want to get in touch. Yours, reluctantly on the grid, Toby Hulse