The Long Player

Eleanor May Blackburn

Eleanor May Blackburn is a disabled and neurodivergent writer/actor/theatre-maker/poet/facilitator from Sheffield. She has created, produced and performed 3 solo shows to date that have toured all over the country and to the Edinburgh Fringe to 4&5* reviews. In 2025 she sold out at the Crucible, Sheffield Theatres with Does My Fanny Look Big in This? and later this year she takes her 3rd solo show A Sudden, Disturbing To Do List to the likes of Theatre Deli, Alphabetti and 53two. Eleanor had her first full collection of poetry Sleeve Heart published in 2025 by Stairwell Books and chapbook Ghost and Found published in 2021 by Cerasus Poetry. Other notable projects include: Pidge the narrator (lead) for the Royal Ballet and Opera’s Tales Untapped, playing the titular role in JW Theatre’s The Witching Hour and lead in The Devil's Game, Robin Hood in Same Difference’s Robin Hood, starring in Apartness alongside Sylvester McCoy and Linda Marlowe, playing the lead in Kevin Short’s feature film Bonnie & Clive. She spends her free time performing her own spoken word at open mics and slams and likes to write about disability, mental health and feminist narratives.

Richard Galloway

Richard Galloway is a Northern Irish actor who trained at Bretton Hall 2004. He also co-founded Yorkshire based; Buglight Productions 2014.  He has just finished development of a new musical How could I forget? with Sheffield Theatres, other theatre highlights include: Home Truths (Cardboard Citizens), one man show The Life and Soul (Red Ladder), ‘Entertaining Mr Sloane’ (Plays the Thing), Stones in his Pockets (Contexture),  And three shows with Bad Apple theatre company. In screen; ’Boots’ in The Tide ( Sleeping dogs-2023) and playing Ryan in feature film Black Daruma (Far North Films 2024), thriller He Kills at Night (2025) and  drama Are you trying to Kill me?  (Memphis James Pictures 2026)