Theatre Freelancers & COVID-19 Policy Timeline

This timeline was developed as a dataset for the Freelancers in the Dark Project by Ali FitzGibbon and Laura Harris with support from Alexandra Young. Using public statements, media coverage and online reporting, it marks dates of relevance to the experience of theatre freelancers between January 2020 (when certain early reporting of COVID-19 began to emerge) and March 2022, the 2 year anniversary of the UK outbreak and lockdowns and end of the research project. The timeline was published using the open-source tool developed by knight lab. An early version was published in June 2021 and contributions invited. The final version was completed on 28 June 2022. Freelancers in the Dark is the public name of the project, 'The Economic, Social, and Cultural Impact of COVID-19 on Independent Art Workers in UK Theatre'. This project has been funded by the ESRC through their emergency funding for projects addressing COVID-19. The project was based at University of Essex, East 15 School of Acting and was a collaboration between University of Essex, Manchester Metropolitan University and Queen’s University Belfast.

To cite this work: FitzGibbon,A.,Harris, L., Young, A. (2022) Theatre Freelancers & COVID-19 Policy Timeline.Available at: cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timelin…

An editable spreadsheet of the raw dataset is available through the University of Essex repository. Note this spreadsheet is available below in xlsx and csv formats. Corresponding author: Ali FitzGibbon [email protected]