Hannah Nicklin is a post-doc researcher, producer and practising theatre maker working in the areas of game design, agency in the digital age, interactive theatre, and art-and-play-as-activism. After completing a PhD in the political power of first person theatre at Loughborough University, Hannah joined Hide&Seek - a game design studio - as a research associate whilst also working freelance as a theatre maker, game designer and producer. She is still involved in academia, and talks and teaches in industry and academic settings on digital technology, activism, and DIY/Punk theatre.

Her own practice in theatre, installation and game design is often based in community work or storytelling, and almost always happens outside of traditional arts venues, she has worked with companies and venues such as Sheffield Theatres, Northern Stage, Theatre in the Mill, Slung Low, Third Angel, ARC Stockton, Contact Theatre, Hazard Festival, Fierce Festival, Forest Fringe etc.

She produced Performance in the Pub 'pay what you can nights out for people who don't really 'do' theatre' in Leicester for over a year, bringing DIY experimental performance to a gig space and gig-going people, and co-runs a new record label called 'Duck Duck Goose' who release screamo/emo/punk music from around the UK. As part of her residency at PMStudio is working on developing and working with UWE in researching a new mobile web app with albow which allows people to share, discover and exchange value in disruptive ways around live events.

Hannah can be found online at hannahnicklin.com on twitter as @hannahnicklin and as 'hannahnicklin' in most other places. In real life she can be found on a train to somewhere, or Doing Sport.