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Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · 18h

Earlier this year my company turned 10. I’ve been thinking all year about how to mark it, and the result is a new look for the company, a new roadmap for the next 10 years, a new website, and I’ve only gone and started a bloody Substack. Please do check it all out on paulvirides.com!

Black text on a yellow background, reading: "The Roadmap. We are... scrupulously principled, proudly nimble, and commercially & artistically ambitious. / Today PVP is outlining a new roadmap for the next decade - a statement of who we are and a set of goals for who we want to be by 2035."

Black text against a yellow background, reading: "The website. Read more about the roadmap, check out the Substack, see what we're up to, find out how we can support your project... all over on the new website. paulvirides.com."

Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · Jul 26

A huge part of the problem is ACE funding discourages anything that looks like “high” pay and most applications severely underestimate the workload required. And producers, GMs and creatives are very rarely properly paid for prep time or for incidentals like post-press night visits. We gotta fix it.

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Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · Jul 26

For the first 9 years of my career I earned between 25p and £5 an hour. That only changed when I became an ED (just before Covid), and finally earned slightly above NMW. And yet I was on the hook if the shows collapsed. Important stuff @freelancersmake.bsky.social (1/2)

variety.com/2025/theater...

Crisis Deepens for U.K. Entertainment Freelancers as 44% Earn Below Living Wage

U.K. entertainment freelancers face unprecedented crisis with 44% earning below living wage, 70% feeling insecure about careers, survey reveals.

variety.com

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Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · May 30

Sorry but this photo is high camp

Pop Base @popbase.tv · May 30

Taylor Swift now owns her masters for her first six albums.

Taylor Swift surrounded by the vinyls of her first six records.

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Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · May 12

If you want to counter the (completely overstated) “rise of Reform”, you do it by engaging in debate and leadership and making the case for an alternative way forward. Not cowing to insincere, headline-grabbing garbage just to try and win over some racists who will never vote for you anyway.

Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · May 12

Starmer’s speech was a disgraceful addendum to his already zealously populist, ideologically barren government.

This isn’t what Labour is for and it’s a punch in the face to hundreds of good MPs and thousands of party members who are now stuck defending it for fear of being purged. It’s obscene.

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Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · May 12

My grandparents didn’t come to an island of strangers, nor did they leave one behind when they died, nor will we create one by welcoming people of all backgrounds to our shores. Our diversity is what makes us British in the first place.

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Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · May 1

Once again I implore gatekeepers to include Greek creatives and actors and staff when you pick up Ancient Greek plays and decide to put them on. If you knew an ounce of Greek history between classical times and now, you'd know why it matters that Greeks get to finally tell their own stories.

Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · Apr 22

Have been quiet on here but we started rehearsals for this this week and it’s already a joy. Come see us!

underbellyboulevard.com/tickets/pop-...

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Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · Apr 2

Watching this speech live it’s pretty obvious that Trump doesn’t actually understand how tarries work. Which is… something.

Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · Apr 2

Love this. www.thestage.co.uk/news/history...

Indhu Rubasingham welcomed as National Theatre's artistic director

Leaders from across the industry have hailed Indhu Rubasingham's commencement as both the first woman and person of colour to lead the National Theatre, with producer Sonia Friedman labelling it a ‘mo...

www.thestage.co.uk

Paul Virides @paulvirides.bsky.social · Mar 22

I’m locked in war with housekeeping at my hotel. Every day I return to find they’ve switched the air con to “heating” mode (because in Greece they hear their buildings to an ungodly 23 degrees so a cool 21 on the cool setting is like ice for them). And every day I switch it back to “cooling” mode.