Nick Toner

arts, culture & community producer & manager

Selected artists, speakers and institutions I’ve produced, managed and/or commissioned:

VISUAL & PERFORMANCE ART: Split Britches co-founder Lois Weaver (April 2025)

Merlin Carpenter, Emanuel Almborg and Turner Prize nominee Ghislaine Leung, in partnership with 3236rls gallery (February 2025) | photo archive

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK series 1 star Crystal (October 2021) | listen

MUSIC AND FILM: UK premiere of the Animation Show of Shows, leading North American animation short film showcase (May 2026)

BBC Jazz Awards winner Ian Shaw (February 2025)

UK tour stop of performance community Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, in partnership with Colchester Arts Centre (October 2024) | social media

BBC Radio 4’s Colin Sell (September 2020) | watch

LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD: novelist Lisa Appignanesi (September 2026) - part of “John Berger at 100” series

LSE Professor Lea Ypi (November 2025)

Former Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn MP (June 2025) | watch

Mother of the House of Commons Diane Abbott MP launching her memoir’s paperback (May 2025)

Iain Sinclair & Chris McCabe in conversation and performing live poetry (March 2025)

Media coverage in: i news | BBC News | Literary Review | Museums Journal | Associated Press | NPR Radio | Die Tageszeitung | Hackney Citizen | Ham & High

Me: based in London (N16) | email me | Substack (on hiatus) | words on Arthur Machen and consumer desolation