About Us

We enable people to queer their world through internationally acclaimed theatre, performance, celebration, and disruption. We are Milk Presents. Nice to meet you.

We create award winning theatre and performance as well as making space for exchange, entertainment and community. This takes many forms: theatre, film, audio-plays, workshops, club nights, symposiums, book groups and more.

Milk Presents are an associate company of Derby Theatre and in the last ten years have created and performed hundreds of shows globally. Our work has won multiple awards, including an Off-West End and an Edinburgh Fringe First award.

The work we make is a protest. It is also a celebration and sometimes a bit of a messy one. You know that sticky, messed-up, extraordinary and ambiguous thing called gender? Our work is often about that.

We invite you to blur fixed lines, to manoeuvre, to spread out, to kickback, backtrack and change.

Queerness is big and complex and messy and it’s yours…if you want it to be.

Our Journey

As fresh faced gender-warrior graduates from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2010, we made our first theatre show 454 Grams, with Mischke Weinreb and Emma O’Hanlon. We became Associate Artists of The Point, Eastleigh (2011-2012), where we made our first full length shows: Bluebeard A Fairytale for Adults (Total Theatre Award nominated); and A Real Man’s Guide To Sainthood. We lived together in a rickety but loveable flat, made a whole load of performance and ran The Berry Youth Theatre.

Next up was Milk Presents: Self Service (2013 - 2014), after which we became an associate company of Derby Theatre where we made the award winning JOAN and critically acclaimed BULLISH. We became an associate company of The Bush theatre (2016-17) and toured JOAN and BULLISH nationally and internationally. Around this time we also launched a club night with Lucy J Parkinson called CREAM and were commissioned to run BROMANCE at the Wellcome Collection.

Community residencies and workshops have always been an important part of what we do and these have included work at the Roundhouse, The Bush and the National Association of Youth Theatres, to name a few.

Now our family has grown a little bigger from the three co-directors Leo Skilbeck, Ruby Glaskin and Adam Robertson to add the super sharp skills of Jo Tyabji (Associate Director), Prime Isaac (Young Associate), and  Lee Smith (Producing Assistant) to the team.  

Thank you for your support and joining the journey!

Photo by Holly Revell