About
Alastair Curtis (he/him) is a writer, director and founder of The AIDS Plays Project. His writing has been published in Frieze, AnOther, The Economist, Prospect and The Observer amongst others. Sweetheart, his debut short film, premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2025.
Project
Alastair founded The AIDS Plays Project in 2023 to re-stage and re-publish the theatrical works of queer writers whose lives were cut short due to HIV/AIDS-related illnesses. Striving for cultural recovery and repair, the project seeks to mend the connection between these playwrights and a younger generation of queer artists and audiences. Past performances have been featured by the BBC, Frieze, Hero, AnOther, The Evening Standard and The Financial Times, who wrote “play by play, The AIDS Plays Project is reshaping the queer theatrical canon.”
During his time as an associate, Curtis will research and develop works from The AIDS Plays Project for presentation at London Performance Studios throughout 2024–2025. He will revive largely forgotten plays by Colm Ó Clúbhan, Alan Bowne and Jean-Luc Lagarce to question what theatre would look like if these playwrights were still alive, and explore how returning their work to the stage now can help contemporary theatre-makers reimagine their own art.
