I'm hosting a free panel on the future of arts criticism!
Very keen to invite you along to 'Arbiters or Arbitrary', a panel featuring Jamie Tram, Bryget Chrisfield, and hosted by myself as part of Emerging Writers' Festival—this Thursday evening!
Ryan Hamilton
An award-winning fat/queer critic, indie theatremaker, producer, and writer who tells stories about place, otherness, and utopia.
"Good criticism is a commitment to cultural leadership"
My contribution to a roundup of responses to the criticism of criticism in 2026, written for Guy Webster's 'This is not a review'.
Gag City
When f*gs say ‘protect queer art,’ this show better be what they’re talking about
Finn McGrath, Johanna Cosgrove, Beat Boyz, Chelsea Heaney, Guneet Kaur, Lucas Meintjes, Conk, Handful of Bugs, and Hannah Camilleri at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Gag City
My Least Fave MICF Show :(((
Josh Thomas, Elf Lyons, Laura Davis, and Doug & Max—it's been a big couple days at the fest with some hits and one big miss.
Gag City
Marathon, not a Sprint
I saw Mel McGlensey's Normal and Tricksy Collins' Assigned Magician at Birth the other day and I really desperately need you to know about them.
Gag City
Two Queer Comedy Shows, Two Chappell Roan References
A brilliant night of queer comedy and theatre at The Motley Wherehaus seeing Jenna Suffern’s Lobster in a Glass and Yoz Mensch’s My Grandpa Doesn’t Follow Me On Instagram
Gag City
Mrs Lovett’s Little Devil and the Eighteen Lives
A diary of my first four show day at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, featuring peaches, pies, puns, and plenty of politics.
Gag City
Gag City faces torrential rain (with Clowns & Animatronic Cats)
A night at the Motley Bauhaus catching Happy Birthday Taylah Whelan, Coco the Time Travelling Tart, and Caitlin Duff’s Freidah
Gag City
Your visa to Gag City has been approved, chuckle f*cker
Introducing a pop-up newsletter full of my coverage of Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026
In the Round
Here's the theatre that reminded me why I love this art form so much
Out of the 234 shows I saw in 2025, these are the ones that left the biggest marks on me
In the Round
A long overdue review of my favourite show at Melbourne Fringe (and a working theory of what makes theatre, theatre)
A review of No Seasons by Oli Ayres, presented by Skint at Melbourne Fringe Festival 2025
In the Round
We get to decide how we live through it
Reviewing ‘Democracy Repair Services’ by Noemie Huttner-Koros, directed by Martha Latham, presented at Melbourne Fringe in 2025