Dan Webber

Biography

Dan Webber is an LGBTQ+ Spoken Word artist based in Derby. He has appeared at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The RSC, YNOT Festival, Leicester Comedy Festival, Reading Fringe Festival, Faversham Fringe, Nottingham Poetry Festival, Derby Poetry Festival, Queer As Jokes London and Incite at The Phoenix Artists Club. Dan has supported Robb Johnson and Joe Solo and appeared alongside LGBTQ+ Poet Laureate Trudy Howson. In 2016 he was named BBC Local Poet for Derby for National Poetry Day, in February 2018 performed as part of the 25th Birthday celebration for Leicester Comedy Festival and in 2019 competed in the inaugural Comedy Bloomers LGBT Comedian of the Year awards. His first collection 'Genre Fluid', a study into labels in the arts, in everyday life in the LGBTQ+ community was published by Big White Shed with support from The Big House in June 2019.

All poems are copyright of the originating author. Permission must be obtained before using or performing others' poems.