E.M. Parry

E.M. Parry is a trans*-disciplinary artist and award-winning designer, working across scenography, performance, drag, and visual art. Their work has been seen in the West End, international opera houses, pubs, clubs, ships, cabarets, museums and haunted basements. They are an associate artist at Shakespeare’s Globe, a previous artist-in-residence at Triangle LGBTQ+ Cultural Centre, and have shown their work at the V&A, Prague Quadrennial, Fix 23 Live Art Festival, Belfast, and hARTs Lane Gallery where they had their first solo exhibition, Closet Dramas, in 2024. They trained at Wimbledon, Motley, and recently completed a PhD at the University of Brighton, exploring queer and trans history through creative practice. Current work includes commissions from the Museum of London and Greenwich Maritime Museum, collaborating with queer communities to create artworks and installations in conversation with the collections. Conference appearances include Performance Studies International, TAPRA, and Queer Collections & Heritage Network. Academic publication includes contributions to Gender on the Transnational Early Modern Stage (Toronto University Press), Global Gender Nonconformity, (Bloomsbury) and Performance & Communities (Intellect). They work with, through and for queer bodies, squinting at history, flirting with ghosts and the things that go bump in the margins.