Baya Simons

Acting Commissioning Editor for arts @FTMag. Writing in @FTMag @FTLifeArts @htsi She/Her. vmo

[HTSI @htsi]

Michael Swaine: ‘What I learnt from mending strangers’ clothes’
https://t.co/LXdlrft4kT

[HTSI @htsi]

Spy, author, romantic cad, space cowboy – in preparation for his next turn in The Seagull, Tom Burke takes on some classic roles
https://t.co/TTWB4cXCUV

[Mia Levitin @mialevitin]

"It's really important to make things hard for yourself, to make difficult choices and to take risks. Mindfulness is all very well, but it writes shit books." ~ Eimear McBride interviewed by @baya_simons @FTMag
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[Robert Stagg @robert_stagg]

Brian Cox talks about performing ‘King Lear’ at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. From today’s @FT.

[Baya Simons @baya_simons]

The funnest piece to work on. You won't regret reading it!

[John Phipps @John__Phipps]

This spring, an awful ghost appeared to me by night and told me about a copy of Hamlet that is secretly passed down from one great actor to the next. But before I had time to cry, “thrift, Horatio!”, it had disappeared. By then I was sworn. My piece: https://t.co/aFuvU360p8

[Mark O’Connell @mrkocnnll]

This is an extremely fun and fascinating piece. You just cannot beat a good nonfiction Maguffin, for my money

[John Phipps @John__Phipps]

Ok Tom Hiddleston Derek Jacobi Kenneth Branagh Hamlet hive - let’s take this triple platinum

[John Phipps @John__Phipps]

If you want to read an honest to god Shakespearean caper featuring Peter O’Toole, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hiddleston and others-then you should read my piece

[Kieran Morris @kf_morris]

This is so fucking sick. The most fun I’ve had reading a feature in ages, you should read it too

[Cordelia Jenkins @CordeliaJ]

I talked to Brian Cox, Kathryn Hunter, Greg Hicks and Simon Russell Beale about what it’s like to play King Lear and it got pretty intense…
https://t.co/lFsxL20rHg

[FT Weekend Magazine @FTMag]

A special edition of the FT magazine: 460 years after Shakespeare’s birth, his powers are undiminished

https://t.co/I3yXDzBync

[Lola Seaton @lola_seaton]

For the latest @NewLeftReview I wrote about Anne Carson and ten things you can do to avoid boredom (jk...sort of)

https://t.co/FELpfew7uV

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

Whoa @FTMag - supplement of the year & scoop of the year at the #PressAwards + many other fantastic wins for the @FT

[Harriet Fitch Little @HarrietFL]

satisfyingly hefty.. #pressawards @mattvella @CordeliaJ @neilos49 @griseldamb @baya_simons @joshklustig @emmalbowkett @shannonzoe11 @estherbintliff

[Josh K Lustig @joshklustig]

Truly a privilege to write about my friend and colleague Tim Hetherington for the cover of this weekend's @FTMag, ahead of the show at @I_W_M Thank you to @StephenMayes for his generosity, and to my editors @mattvella @neilos49 @HarrietFL @emmalbowkett https://t.co/du8ABzHL9v

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

Megan’s such a gifted writer. So thrilled to have her in @FTMag

[Sophie Elmhirst @SophieElmhirst]

So interesting, this, on the ethics of who you pick as your subjects, and how you live alongside them afterwards - by Megan Nolan in @FTMag

[Baya Simons @baya_simons]

Very happy to get to publish Megan Nolan's amazing essay on Ray's a Laugh, its controversy and the ethics of depicting family in art in the @FTMag https://t.co/HTG0BYf0MB

[Matt Vella @mattvella]

The @ftmag is made by: @neilos49 @401bristar @shannonzoe11 @emmalbowkett @CordeliaJ @HarrietFL @griseldamb @baya_simons @joshklustig Antony Lavelle, Andrea Crisp, Cherish Rufus, Sophie Hanscombe (& editor emeritus @estherbintliff)

[Baya Simons @baya_simons]

The body, a photography special is out tomorrow in the @FTMag. Amazing photography, plus @lola_seaton on how footballers master space, Geoff Dyer on the new Olympic sports and Rosa van Hensbergen on wild dancing https://t.co/866ha8Cj9X