Today I got made redundant.

Eight days after my eighteenth birthday, whilst preparing for my A levels, I got a job at the @NationalTheatre. For the last eight and a half years, working front of house has meant I could study at both drama school and university. It allowed...

me to meet some of the most ncredible, talented, loving and supportive people I have ever had the good fortune to know. It has allowed me to, from a quiet seat at the back of the theatre, experience inspiring, challenging and important art, produced by some of the most...

talented directors, writers, dancers, designers, actors, choreographers, stage managers, producers and crew in the UK, if not the world. I know that concrete behemoth looming over the South Bank may look imposing, but step inside, buy the cheapest seat (or stand), and you'll...

understand why I'm heartbroken to have to say goodbye to what became my home away from home.

What is awful, is that if things continue the way they are now, you might never be able to.

Whilst you can go to the pub from tomorrow, theatres may be the last places to reopen...

if indeed they can. If things continue the way they are going now, come September most theatres will be out of business, and by February there may not be any left at all. We are watching our world class theatre sector dissappear, a sector that brings in vast amounts of money...

to the UK economy which is built upon a centuries strong theatrical legacy which is the envy of the world.

Coronavirus is not killing the theatre industry in the UK. Governmental inaction is. Mr @OliverDowden I implore you to take action and to bailout theatres across the UK...

Without it, I certainly won't be the last person to be made redundant, and there may not even be a theatre sector left for your successor to save.