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Dan Webber
Bio :
Dan Webber (he/him) is an award-winning LGBTQ+ poet, promoter and producer based in Derby.
He has appeared at numerous festivals across the country, including Glastonbury Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Wrestival, Timber Festival, Reading Fringe Festival, Y NOT Festival and Wolverhampton Literature Festival. He performed as part of the 25th Birthday Celebrations for Leicester Comedy Festival and was named BBC Local Poet for Derby, for National Poetry Day in 2016. Dan made his West End debut headlining Incite at The Pheonix Artist Club in 2017 and has performed at the iconic 2 Brewers, Clapham.
Collections include ‘Genre Fluid’ (2019) and ‘The Derby Witness’ (2022) both published by Big White Shed and held within The National Poetry Library. A stage-show version of Genre Fluid toured between 2019 and 2020 and was named Best Solo Show at Morecambe Digital Fringe in August 2020.
Commissions include ‘The Derby Witness’ a poetry and street art project for Derby Feste, ‘Whispers From The Woods’, a poetry and nature trail produced with Arts Melbourne for The National Forest, ‘15st 9lbs at time of writing’ for SHOUT Festival, Birmingham, ‘Genre Fluid: Quarantine Edition’ for Coventry Pride (with Fancy Entertainment), ‘322 Ways of Escape’ for the 30th anniversary celebrations for The Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-upon-Trent, and ‘Boys’ a queer reimaging of ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ as part of 1623 Theatre’s Queer Folio Project.
Dan has supported Barbara Nice, Cheryl Hole and LGBT Poet Laureate Trudy Howson.
Dan has competed in poetry slams and competitions across the country, most notably the ‘Poetry Is Dead Good’ Midlands Poetry Slam, the ‘Loud Poets’ Edinburgh Fringe Slam, the inaugural ‘Comedy Bloomers’ LGBTQ+ Comedian of the Year competition and the Mind Over Matters CIC ‘Mind Over Slammers’ national poetry slam.
Dan regularly produces LGBTQ+ focused events across the midlands, recent projects include ‘LOL-gbtq+ at The Lord Roberts’ for Nottingham Comedy Festival (2023/4), ‘Scandalous’ and ‘West End Wednesdays’ a series of LGBTQ+ focused Christmas Cabaret events for Derby LIVE and Festive Derby (2023/4) and The Queer Up Duck Comedy Showcase (Nottingham, 2024).
Since 2020, Dan has been a producer for The Parky Players, a Nottingham based group of actors living with Parkinson’s. Following performances at Edinburgh Fringe 2022 and winning the World Parkinson’s Coalition Song Contest in the same year, in 2024, The Parky Players were nominated for the Neurodiverse Review Disability Champions Award and awarded the inaugural Garry Robson Award for their Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024 run of ‘Shaken Not Stirred’.
He is currently Events Programmer for Derby Museums, Dracula Events Specialist for ‘Dracula Returns to Derby’, Outreach Coordinator for the Nottingham Queer Arts Collective and Co-Director of Derby Poetry Festival.
In 2024 Dan became a UK Creative Community Fellow.
He has appeared at numerous festivals across the country, including Glastonbury Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Wrestival, Timber Festival, Reading Fringe Festival, Y NOT Festival and Wolverhampton Literature Festival. He performed as part of the 25th Birthday Celebrations for Leicester Comedy Festival and was named BBC Local Poet for Derby, for National Poetry Day in 2016. Dan made his West End debut headlining Incite at The Pheonix Artist Club in 2017 and has performed at the iconic 2 Brewers, Clapham.
Collections include ‘Genre Fluid’ (2019) and ‘The Derby Witness’ (2022) both published by Big White Shed and held within The National Poetry Library. A stage-show version of Genre Fluid toured between 2019 and 2020 and was named Best Solo Show at Morecambe Digital Fringe in August 2020.
Commissions include ‘The Derby Witness’ a poetry and street art project for Derby Feste, ‘Whispers From The Woods’, a poetry and nature trail produced with Arts Melbourne for The National Forest, ‘15st 9lbs at time of writing’ for SHOUT Festival, Birmingham, ‘Genre Fluid: Quarantine Edition’ for Coventry Pride (with Fancy Entertainment), ‘322 Ways of Escape’ for the 30th anniversary celebrations for The Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-upon-Trent, and ‘Boys’ a queer reimaging of ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ as part of 1623 Theatre’s Queer Folio Project.
Dan has supported Barbara Nice, Cheryl Hole and LGBT Poet Laureate Trudy Howson.
Dan has competed in poetry slams and competitions across the country, most notably the ‘Poetry Is Dead Good’ Midlands Poetry Slam, the ‘Loud Poets’ Edinburgh Fringe Slam, the inaugural ‘Comedy Bloomers’ LGBTQ+ Comedian of the Year competition and the Mind Over Matters CIC ‘Mind Over Slammers’ national poetry slam.
Dan regularly produces LGBTQ+ focused events across the midlands, recent projects include ‘LOL-gbtq+ at The Lord Roberts’ for Nottingham Comedy Festival (2023/4), ‘Scandalous’ and ‘West End Wednesdays’ a series of LGBTQ+ focused Christmas Cabaret events for Derby LIVE and Festive Derby (2023/4) and The Queer Up Duck Comedy Showcase (Nottingham, 2024).
Since 2020, Dan has been a producer for The Parky Players, a Nottingham based group of actors living with Parkinson’s. Following performances at Edinburgh Fringe 2022 and winning the World Parkinson’s Coalition Song Contest in the same year, in 2024, The Parky Players were nominated for the Neurodiverse Review Disability Champions Award and awarded the inaugural Garry Robson Award for their Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024 run of ‘Shaken Not Stirred’.
He is currently Events Programmer for Derby Museums, Dracula Events Specialist for ‘Dracula Returns to Derby’, Outreach Coordinator for the Nottingham Queer Arts Collective and Co-Director of Derby Poetry Festival.
In 2024 Dan became a UK Creative Community Fellow.
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