Postcards From Margate

Kate Malyon

Kate Malyon is the creator and director of Postcards from Margate.

Born and bred in Thanet, she trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London and has since worked extensively on stage and screen, both nationally and internationally. Her recent credits include work with the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Soho Theatre, and for the BBC. 

James Harty

[He/They]

James is an actor, theatre maker, and drag performer originally from Lincolnshire, now proudly an ‘Official Margate local’ after calling the seaside town home for the past decade.

They’re best known as their Infamous drag alter ego Dame Jame —the original Margate Dame and the self-proclaimed people’s princess.

Whether entertaining queers, herding hen parties, or lurking in Soho basements, Dame James infectious live cabaret brings joy and escapism to audiences across the UK.

With a bold blend of theatre, comedy, and high-camp chaos, James continues to carve out space for queer joy and creative mischief wherever they go.

Sé Malaïka Nōmayo 

[They/Them]

Dr Sé Malaïka is a writer and researcher who explores and experiments with connections to place, particularly through queer placemaking. Their PhD examined the spatialised activist practices of lesbians in 1980s London. In June 2025, they opened the Margate Queer Library & Archive, a free DIY space for the community aimed at increasing access to queer histories, methods, and theories, especially those shared, materialised, and remembered in Thanet.

Their creative practices span multiple mediums, including photography, film, and writing, through which they also explore the intersections of place, belonging, and identity. Published works include; Like The Wind (2020 & 2024), Queer Runnings (2022) and Ignota Books (2023). They are currently working on their first manuscript, ‘of the water places’. 

Dre Spisto 

[They/Them]

Dre is an award nominated performer, actor, director, writer and artist. They make a mish mash of live theatre, art buffoonery, comedic interventions, and film. Trained at Lispa (Art-Haus Berlin) in Lecoq with a focus on clowning. Dre’s work has been described by critics as genre-smashing, surreal, gentle, bracing and very, very funny.

Sharron Harrison

[She/Her/Them]

Educator. Practising Buddhist. A ‘why’ child. Appreciative of my environment. A believer in equity over equality.

Sharron has been in Margate for 20 years and still sees the beauty of it’s environment and people. They celebrate it by being in it and encouraging others to do the same.

Education, across the board, is very important, so they’ve spent most of their ‘work’ time in education across the sectors and age range.

They have the privilege of sitting at the intersection of a number of communities.

They underpin their life with the principles of mutual respect in their Buddhist practise.

Lo Barnes 

[She/They]

Lo Barnes is a singer-songwriter, vocal coach, community host of Harmony Margate [a space for female, trans and non binary musicians to connect] and staunch ally of the LGBTQ+ community. 

After more than 10 years working as a recording and touring musician, Lo moved to Margate to focus on their own artistry - writing, recording and independently releasing haunting rock & roll. Last year they founded Harmony Margate as a place for gender-marginalised musicians to take up space, share stories, with future plans to hold workshops for this community to strengthen their skills as they develop their craft.

Tom Giles

[He/They]

Tom is an actor, writer and director - living in Margate, with work appearing on stage, screen and online. 

As a performer Tom’s work includes plays and musicals for The National Theatre, The RSC, Shakespeare's Globe and The Donmar among many others. 

Writing includes commissions for theatre, screen and the current and exquisite agony of writing his first novel.

Tommy Poppers 

[He/Him/Them]

Tommy Poppers is the original bard of the backroom. He writes tender songs of the briefest encounters in the darkest of places. Since the 80's he has worked in the shadows for LGBTQ causes all around the world including Margate Pride.