anna Profile Banner
anna Profile
anna

@anna_h_h

3,672
Followers
1,864
Following
1,152
Media
12,430
Statuses

◆ stage director ◆ new work @brumhippodrome ◆ now: the secret garden @openairtheatre ◆ prev: orpheus @opera_north ◆ rep: @casarottoramsay

Joined April 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
the gas guy just rang to say my landlord was sending him round and then remembered my landlord is a woman and said "sorry - ladylord"
292
7K
148K
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
worried that my landlord is becoming increasingly addicted to my wages and should probably be weaned off them
31
3K
35K
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
seeing a few ppl going down byrons for a veganuary burger, worth reiterating
@libcomorg
libcom.org
7 years
In July 2016 Byron burgers called a fake meeting about cooking burgers for their staff at multiple London branches so that Home Office immigration enforcement could arrest 35 people.
6
138
244
6
474
837
@anna_h_h
anna
7 years
nigella was eating avocado on toast for breakfast, getting distracted by her phone + obsessively photographing her food in 2007, bow down
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
7
207
830
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
hi if u are reading this then pls consider joining your local tenants union, perhaps @LDNRentersUnion , @ACORNunion or your local equivalent
3
28
708
@anna_h_h
anna
2 months
the energy spent trying to solve the problem of class in the arts by figuring out who is and isn’t working class by markers that will never be discrete or reliable would be more usefully spent on banning private schools and abolishing landlordism
5
71
507
@anna_h_h
anna
6 months
"it's the playwrights" "it's the boards" "it's the management" "it's the programming" "it's the artists" "it's the audiences" pls can we FOCUS! it's the government!!!!
5
106
446
@anna_h_h
anna
1 year
my dad died and then a week later my son was born and now a week later it’s my first mother’s day, and this is my with-sympathy-it’s-a-boy-happy-mother’s-day mantelpiece. it’s hard, and beautiful, and i feel very loved and in love.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
37
0
449
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
don’t make me tap the sign
Tweet media one
0
136
407
@anna_h_h
anna
3 months
vinted seller w a very clear and specific idea of what people want from a pair of trousers
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
1
20
416
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
sorry there's a show happening inside at the moment would you mind keeping your voice down
Tweet media one
14
39
383
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
rehearsal room starter pack (uk edition)
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
7
30
373
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
leon: we have 12 dishes which are all rice with lemon and parsley and they each cost 1 hours' wages me: i'll take two of each to go, see you tomorrow
6
28
301
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
pretending to have a fraught meeting in the nt foyer where you're not sure if it's a job interview or a casual coffee just to feel something
Tweet media one
7
7
284
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
can i hear a little commotion for the custard creams
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
26
4
248
@anna_h_h
anna
1 month
she wants a man(ager) from brum
@TheStage
The Stage
1 month
Theatremaker Anna Himali Howard has been appointed as new-work manager at Birmingham Hippodrome ( @brumhippodrome ) 👉
Tweet media one
5
8
98
37
2
253
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
@shakemesounds that is the joke, yes
@thetimes
The Times and The Sunday Times
4 years
Rishi Sunak is preparing to “wean” businesses and workers off the government’s furloughing scheme by cutting wage subsidies amid concerns that the nation has become “addicted”
161
40
68
2
2
213
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
this is a really good read. i don’t know anyone for whom coming back hasn’t been a shock to the system. i had to write this to myself when i was in tech so i’d stop beating myself up -
Tweet media one
13
53
219
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
i just....a really oddly emotional encounter just came out of an ebay local sale?? i bought a beautiful rug (now my most treasured possession) very cheaply bc i was the only one the bid, and the man came round 15 mins after to drop it off. we told him we'd just moved in
4
11
205
@anna_h_h
anna
4 months
this one tutor i had always seemed so pissed off and disengaged and basically it turned out he’d been told to teach a postcolonial literature seminar bc he was brown and his specialism was early printing presses lol
@NoreenMasud
Noreen Masud
4 months
I’m just a woman, standing in front of a whole load of PhD applicants, begging them to PLEASE PLEASE STOP ASSUMING I HAVE EXPERTISE IN POSTCOLONIAL THEORY JUST BECAUSE I HAVE A MUSLIM NAME
15
57
2K
2
16
199
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
@clawstopher @guardian ah is that what’s going on here then
@ClaudiaWebbe
Claudia Webbe
3 years
How beautiful a world would we have if every city was like Glasgow?
181
1K
7K
1
20
190
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
the power of cutting off all your hair is so strong, i’ve been so fatigued and grumpy all week and now i feel like i could do a triathlon, start a commune, write a symphony, i’m unstoppable
Tweet media one
8
3
180
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
i asked a girl on the tube where her dress was from, she said she didn't know, turned around and told me to check the label, ours will be a spring wedding
2
3
166
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
are u sure
Tweet media one
3
14
159
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
extremely accurate footage of me when i went to uni and learned about the concept of draining rice in a sieve
8
13
158
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
haircuts illegal + reunited with diffuser
Tweet media one
25
0
159
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
it's time for theatres/arts orgs to speak up, even if it has to be anonymously, about the censorship that's been ramping up over the last few yrs under the charity commission. first time i was asked to change my work bc of an org's charity status was 2018. wasn't the last.
@christopherhope
Christopher Hope📝
3 years
Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has also summoned 25 of the UK's biggest heritage bodies and charities to a summit on Feb 23 where they will be told "to defend our culture and history from the noisy minority of activists constantly trying to do Britain down”.
512
312
806
4
66
159
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
Tweet media one
@BBCPolitics
BBC Politics
4 years
Removing graffiti will encouraging more people to start using trains again, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tells rail bosses
2K
94
409
2
20
153
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
@samisam147 @SzMarsupial when your parent is trying to tell your younger sibling why they won't "catch up with you" and become the same age
1
2
146
@anna_h_h
anna
10 months
thank you to these women, who never should have had to go through this, for making things better for all of us
Tweet media one
@BBCNews
BBC News (UK)
10 months
Royal Welsh College of Music and drama assault case won by students
2
14
61
0
20
147
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
weird to insult greta thunberg by calling her a 'prophetess', given that in most stories about prophetesses, they are women who give dire warnings, are called crazy, and are ultimately proved catastrophically right
0
19
144
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
as we were thanking him for his generosity he dipped into the car, put a large panetonne in my hands and said 'and merry christmas', nodded tightly, got back in the car and drove away. we were both suddenly really tearful
9
0
137
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
saw a tweet last night that was like “libraries are all gone” + yes they’ve been decimated. but part of austerity is making us expect less + not ask for what’s available. libraries are still there and they’re great and we can + should use them
3
35
136
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
@AmarDeepSinghD + i saw a lot of comments about “incomprehensible” elements of sunak’s campaign that were actually aimed directly at uk hindutva sympathisers
6
7
123
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
anyway, adjoa andoh
Tweet media one
3
6
126
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
@rhodri bc my old room is now a kind of makeshift dormitory for exchange students i have an unusual case of too many beds
Tweet media one
1
10
125
@anna_h_h
anna
6 months
completely serious, if one of you happens to put me one degree away from ralph fiennes then pls do put us in touch. very happy to talk with him about the usefulness of warnings from the perspective of a theatre director who has ptsd.
@BBCPolitics
BBC Politics
6 months
“When I was young we never had trigger warnings for shows” Actor Ralph Fiennes “the impact of theatre should be that you’re shocked” and that he thinks audiences have gone too soft #BBCLauraK
843
405
4K
7
6
127
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
sorry but i signed up to live deliciously and i feel like this isn’t very delicious at all
2
23
124
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
me: is it an ebook university library website: yes me: can i read it university library website, frolicking: if you can catch me!!
3
8
121
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
augury update: it rained all day and then at 9pm immediately after our first dance a perfect rainbow appeared over the allotment clubhouse as the sun was setting opposite
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
forecast is even worse but i just found a sword, can augur twitter tell me what this means
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
2
0
14
21
1
121
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
hear me out on this: bring back the music video channels, these are unprecedented times
3
10
120
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
this has a lot of favs? if you're reading this consider joining a tenants' union like @LDNRentersUnion , @ACORN_tweets or your local equivalent
0
20
109
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
the central line is actually fine if i keep reminding myself that it costs £26 to use the sauna at walthamstow leisure centre
1
10
114
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
threats of cuts are never a cause for celebration imo. imagine an alternative in which the headline was arts bodies given extra funding specifically for increasing diversity? money for free tickets? this somehow feels like a way to blame austerity on marginalised artists
@guardianculture
Guardian culture
4 years
Arts bodies threatened with funding cuts over lack of diversity
0
13
12
2
18
113
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
so we're just gna ignore all the work jack monroe's been doing on this for years eh, i see
@scottygb
Scott Bryan
4 years
BIG >> Channel 4 has just announced that Jamie Oliver will be presenting a series of teatime shows, for six weeks, with easy-to-follow recipes that people can follow along with at home. “Jamie: Keep Cooking and Carry On” starts Monday.
569
282
2K
2
10
112
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
@matttrueman !!! what bodies "signify" is unstable and depends on ppls natural biases. the way they write about that signification can reinforce structural inequality and should be countered. this article obviously did not say "don't write about what bodies mean on stage" come onnnn
2
1
114
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
i have located the source
Tweet media one
3
7
111
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
my eggs, you ask? why would i be worried about them when they are all safely stowed away in this nice basket
4
8
110
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
@cheapmansvest @RivkahBrown you're already better off and charging them rent will just increase and cement that inequality
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
4
7
107
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
wedding eve
Tweet media one
11
0
102
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
@SketchesbyBoze @Nicole_Cliffe get you a man who keeps a secret grain store for when the supply train stops coming in the winter imo
4
3
98
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
replace the brexit festival with the eve leigh festival where everyone presents the shows that @EevLee told them to make
5
8
97
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
today marks one year of putting a poem every week on the noticeboard in the park 📌
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
5
2
95
@anna_h_h
anna
1 year
this was my professional debut in opera and we've won the critics' circle award for outstanding achievement in opera!! lovely to reflect on that little garden full of extraordinary music and people 💛
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
12
4
97
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
i did it. i didn't know if it could be done, and yes i began the day feeling nervous, but here we are. full cooked breakfast and TWO SUCCESSIVE christmas dinners in different households inc. puddings and cheese. a hero, a champion, an incredible feat of athleticism
5
1
95
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
just saw a white girl, maybe 12/13, standing at the junction in moseley village on her own holding a sign saying "black lives matter" 💜
0
3
95
@anna_h_h
anna
7 years
got a new haircut and i look like an entire boyband
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
11
4
93
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
i handed in my MA and am a free elf !! absolutely psyched to write a to-do list that for the first time since 2015 doesn't optimistically say "write dissertation" at the top, peace out ✨
Tweet media one
14
1
93
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
⁘ new zine! ⁘ something i've wanted to do for ages: i've made a really small food zine with my favourite recipes from the last season in it 🍋
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
11
7
93
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
i just went for what the kids are calling a silly little mental health walk, and i saw two friends excitedly run up to the board and, when i walked past like a weird poem spy, one was reading it aloud to the other 😭 best day of my life. a miracle.
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
today marks one year of putting a poem every week on the noticeboard in the park 📌
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
5
2
95
3
5
91
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
ok i've been at west yorkshire playhouse for 5 mins and i already love it. paid £2 for a sausage sandwich, heads up theatres w expensive outsourced cafes/restaurants where your artists can't afford to eat
Tweet media one
4
1
91
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
@TheStage @sarahditum woman here 👋🏽 not angry at all about the old vic's perfectly comprehensible refurb, but definitely angry about your willingness to amplify anti-trans nonsense
7
3
86
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
edited version of thoughts from the REP town hall meeting
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
0
20
90
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
someone left this care package on my grandma's doorstep in kennington, no note💙
Tweet media one
1
0
90
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
creating a beautiful baroque x indian classical Orpheus this year in leeds with a lot of brilliant artists 🌺🔥🏡
@Opera_North
Opera North
2 years
Announcing our 2022–23 opera season! Read all about it » Brand new productions, returning audience favourites, concert stagings and 🔥 collaborations with @southasianartuk and @PhoenixLeeds . #ON2223
Tweet media one
2
29
76
7
2
88
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
last year the tree in the garden of my childhood home fell down and bc i am extremely sentimental i asked for some slices of it, and now ethan is making them into chopping boards !! 🌳💕
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
15
1
88
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
it's almost like...it was never about atheism...or science...at all...
@RichardDawkins
Richard Dawkins
6 years
Listening to the lovely bells of Winchester, one of our great mediaeval cathedrals. So much nicer than the aggressive-sounding “Allahu Akhbar.” Or is that just my cultural upbringing?
Tweet media one
7K
2K
11K
0
16
81
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
whomst has not looked at *resident theatre director at ETON* on artsjobs and wondered if saving a year's rent would be worth your soul
@callum_berridge
callum berridge
5 years
Eton College has a 401 seat theatre, 2 separate studio spaces n puts on 20 productions a yr Tom Hiddleston n Eddie Redmayne were in an adaptation of EM Forster’s A Passage to India at Eton my school didnt offer GCSE Drama cos they couldnt afford a teacher and had no facilities
38
554
3K
3
5
82
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
if you feel uncomfortable bc silence is complicity and speaking is hypocrisy and you can't win, this isn't a winning matter. be uncomfortable. (@ theatres whose justification for gratuitous or oppressive material is often that 'theatre should disturb/discomfort')
3
13
86
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
✨earlboss ✨
@ISaysto
So I Says to Mabel...
4 years
I’m done for today. Bye!
Tweet media one
36
287
3K
1
2
84
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
@matttrueman then why make this point in response to this article instead of talking about it on your own time? using this as a platform for a completely different discussion derails and silences her point about how women's bodies have historically been the only signifier at their disposal.
4
2
84
@anna_h_h
anna
4 months
@lottelydia the emails where it’s like “congratulations, your baby is now two weeks old! have fun, remember not to get fat xo”
0
0
80
@anna_h_h
anna
2 months
get it together folks, we don’t need the identity police we need to be turning down gigs with fees below union rates
Tweet media one
1
2
81
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
i’ve never been to the highlands before and i am having a lovely lovely cold time on the isle of eigg
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
5
1
81
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
when orpheus turned around and saw eurydice behind him the audience gasped in horror which is all i could ever want really
2
0
81
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
i didn’t have any netting to protect my fruit bushes from the birds but i did have a roll of net curtain so here is me and my beautiful gooseberry bush bride
Tweet media one
5
4
78
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
good evening to anyone who has also just sat down to look back over 2021 and been hit by a wave of grief upon realising that someone you love was alive and then not alive anymore in the space of this year. just hello to you, and same
6
5
79
@anna_h_h
anna
6 years
imagine not comprehending the structural power dynamic between @avawongdavies and literal kit harington lol
2
1
78
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
every week i go for a fry-up at the cafe on the corner and i just found out that at 2pm they switch over the radio station, stop serving the menu and it becomes a word-of-mouth-only iranian restaurant, it's ONNNNNNN
7
0
80
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
upgraded from a £15 hairdressers to a £20 hairdressers and oh my god
Tweet media one
7
0
79
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
just want her back
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
rehearsal room starter pack (uk edition)
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
7
30
373
1
3
78
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
front-facing camera comedians it's time, i just woke up and i'm ready to watch approx 100 identical videos of ppl being the person who works at four seasons total landscaping
1
2
76
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
i cannot post the video but today in rehearsals our movement director Yami taught us all the routine to baby one more time and i’ve never felt so alive
9
3
76
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
my dad keeps calling my bullet journal my "scary notebook" i wanna go home to my pretentious life
2
0
77
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
Tweet media one
2
7
74
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
give kirsty housley her props before i fight someone, this is getting silly
Tweet media one
2
8
74
@anna_h_h
anna
1 year
i’m so proud of this team and so grateful to them and the royal court for making this possible. it’s a truly beautiful play 💕🌲
@royalcourt
Royal Court
1 year
Take a peek inside the rehearsal room of Ava Wong Davies's Graceland, opening this week in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. 9 Feb - 11 Mar Get your tickets: 📸Ali Wright
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
Tweet media four
1
4
54
2
1
74
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
once tried to negotiate an assisting job bc £200 on the fee would’ve made it living wage (and the theatre’s website mentioned being a living wage employer). anyway they said no lol, so i didn’t get the gig. but! next time they advertised for an assistant, it was living wage 😎
3
1
73
@anna_h_h
anna
5 months
edward bond's legacy is absolutely monumental. he cared so deeply about justice, about young people, about the meaning of drama. his work is always in my work and i'm so lucky to have encountered him as a young person. a giant, a philosopher, a standard to hold ourselves up to.
2
11
72
@anna_h_h
anna
6 months
was explaining to someone this week that working in theatre rn feels like being a cartoon character who's running across a bridge that's collapsing behind them. if you're lucky
2
3
72
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
the book arrived in the post!
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
@anna_h_h
anna
3 years
i wrote a poem called "chomp chomp chomp" about what allena hansen's reddit AMA taught me about surviving, and it won a prize + is being published in this anthology!! in equal measures surprised and grateful 💛🐻
6
3
66
7
5
73
@anna_h_h
anna
1 year
“you may bring a pram or pushchair on the train as long as it’s folded and stowed away Like Any Other Piece Of Luggage” right yes but with any other piece of luggage i can leave the contents inside during that process?? where exactly do i put the baby while i am doing this
6
4
70
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
starting my period in time for election day? that's the red wave, baby
4
1
70
@anna_h_h
anna
1 year
don’t @ me when this is the closing music in my contemporary update of a classic at the almeida
@girrlpuppy
becca ☆
1 year
this is breathtaking
602
15K
116K
0
3
67
@anna_h_h
anna
5 years
i kept these for three years and now we've moved flat and i've finally done it, they all fit perfectly, give me the turner prize
Tweet media one
@anna_h_h
anna
8 years
hit the fuckin jackpot today friends
Tweet media one
0
0
5
2
2
68
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
the reason a bunch of ppl inc me started growing food/ baking bread/making things for the first time during lockdown wasn't bc of encouraging initiatives or free courses or some kind of moral superiority. the information about how to do these things is out there. it's just time.
1
8
69
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
🏡🎈✨
@TheStage
The Stage
2 years
★★★★★ Review: Orpheus – Cross-cultural collaboration between @Opera_North and @southasianartuk is a significant achievement @LeedsTheatres
Tweet media one
0
15
29
5
0
69
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
sugar rush is streaming on channel 4 !! we're going full 2005 baby! such a shame we'll never know what the tv series was based on but we can enjoy it nevertheless!
2
3
68
@anna_h_h
anna
2 years
i thought nothing would top last year’s bin le creuset but i just found THIS on the street, i nearly walked past it cos i assumed it was just the cardboard box wtf
Tweet media one
10
0
67
@anna_h_h
anna
4 years
leaving for a bit after 4 months' shielding w my family, so i ceremonially picked and ate the cucumber that i grew in that time
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
1
0
66