Alastair Curtis is the founder of The AIDS Plays Project, a campaign to revive and republish the theatrical works of writers whose lives were cut short by HIV/AIDS. The project has been featured in Interview, The Face, Hero, The Evening Standard, and The Financial Times, who wrote, "play by play, The AIDS Plays Project is reshaping the queer theatrical canon." His writing has been published in Frieze, Prospect, The Economist, AnOther, and The Observer, while his debut short film, Sweetheart, set in an eighteenth-century Molly House, premiered at Sundance 2025. He studied English at University College London and the University of Oxford.