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Robert Holtom
Robert Holtom (they/their) is an award-winning playwright in their 30s, based in London. Their play ‘Dumbledore Is So Gay’ won a VAULT Festival Origins Award for new work and an Offies Commendation in 2020. It played on The Pleasance main stage in 2021, received five stars from the Daily Express, Broadway World and Theatre Weekly, and a new production had a successful run at the Southwark Playhouse in 2023. Robert completed the Curtis Brown Creative Novel Writing course in 2015.
Robert’s first novel, A Queer Case, is set in London 1929 and follows the exploits of Selby Bigge, a queer man who finds himself embroiled in a murder. Think a young Poirot with same-sex attractions. Selby is a bank clerk by day and a denizen of London’s underworld by night. He yearns for a more glamorous life and is delighted to receive an invitation to the birthday of the rich banker Sir Lionel Duker. At the party Sir Lionel’s wife is murdered and it doesn’t take long for Selby to realise everyone has a motive – himself included. His love of other men makes him a criminal and Lady Duker had worked this out moments before she was strangled, so Selby must keep his secrets close to his chest as he tries to solve the murder.