Alastair Curtis (b. 1996) is a writer and director “hellbent on developing current and future generations’ knowledge of queer history by championing the voices we’ve lost” (Interview). He wrote and executive produced Sweetheart, a “Sundance 2025 breakout” (i-D) set in a Molly House in eighteenth-century London’s queer underground and starring Eben Figueiredo, Thomas Flynn and Ian Gelder.

He is an Associate Artist at London Performance Studios, where he founded The AIDS Plays Project, a campaign rediscovering queer writers who passed away due to HIV/AIDS, reviving their plays, and “reshaping the queer theatrical canon” (Financial Times). Since it started in 2023, this “momentum-building” project (Evening Standard) has brought together dozens of actors and performers from London’s drag and night-life scenes for sold-out, one-off rehearsed readings featured by the BBC, The Face, HERO, Frieze, Interview, and Financial Times.

He is currently writing a book about The AIDS Plays Project for Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama, slated for release in June 2026. He also recently edited Harry Kondoleon’s Christmas on Mars, a neglected classic of American queer theatre, for re-publication with Polari Press. His writing on art and culture has previously been shortlisted for The Guardian’s Arts Writing Prize and appeared in The Observer, The Economist, Prospect, frieze and AnOther.

He is developing several film projects and is represented by CJ Rock and Abby Singer at Casarotto Ramsay.

Contact

CJ Rock (Writing, TV & Film)
Casarotto Ramsay

The AIDS Plays Project
alastair@theaidsplaysproject.com

Portrait by Elijah Horne