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Simon Sladen is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading experts on British Pantomime. He is Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Performance at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Pantomime Editor for The British Theatre Guide, which sees him review around 25 pantomimes each season, as well as filing monthly pantomime season updates and interviews with the industry’s leading practitioners. He has written on the subject of pantomime for journals New Theatre Quarterly, Studies in Musical Theatre and Popular Entertainment Studies and has provided pantomime related content for the BBC, Channel 4, First Family Entertainment, Birmingham Hippodrome, Period Living and Parent Dish UK. Simon has had two pantomimes published by LazyBee Scripts and has lectured on the genre at Royal Holloway, University of London, University of Winchester and Syracuse University, NY. Simon is a member of the International Federation for Theatre Research (Popular Entertainments), the Theatre and Performance Research Association (Popular Performance) and the Society for Theatre Research. In 2010 Simon founded National Panto Day and in 2013 he established the National Database of Pantomime Performance.