ABOUT US
We are a duo of disabled artists making anarchic, feminist, accessible theatre with a darkly comic twist.
Daisy Higman
Daisy Higman is a visually impaired theatre-maker based in the South West. She trained in Acting at RCSSD and Voice at BSA. She is a graduate of the Theatre Royal Plymouth’s artist development program, The Lab Company, and is a founding member of the Narwhal Ensemble, Theatre Royal Lab Associates from 2018-19.
In 2019 Daisy was selected for Graeae’s 6th Write to Play Scheme (in association with the Theatre Royal Plymouth, Nuffield Southampton, Exeter Northcott, The Ustinov Theatre and Bristol Old Vic) with whom she has developed her first play, Nest. She is one of six writers selected for the Theatre Royal’s Playwrights Development scheme and was recently chosen for the Papatango WriteWest training program.
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As well as writing and performing theatre, Daisy works as a voice-teacher and composer. Recent work includes Sent Forever (with Beth Maxwell-Pooley and the Hum Collective), and the score for 2021: A Cornish Space Odessey.
Emma Latham
Emma Latham is a professional disabled director based in the South West. She was recently selected to create a new short play with Plymouth Conservatoire students as part of the PlayLAB Festival which was performed in the LAB. Emma was also chosen by Wilton’s Music Hall to direct a WIP performance of a new play by Amanda Hallam Lane as part of the Ideas Without Décor programme, supported by the Noel Coward Foundation.
Last year Emma was invited to direct a staged reading of ‘A Pageant of Great Women’ in the Vanbrugh Theatre, RADA as part of the RADA Festival and produced by Women@RADA. Emma has also directed work at Theatre 503, The Rose Playhouse, The Vaults and Exeter Phoenix.
Emma trained on the LAB Company scheme at Theatre Royal Plymouth and co-directed the show which was created on this scheme, ‘Whey Down South’ by the Narwhal Ensemble. ‘Whey Down South’ then toured to the Exeter Bikeshed, Salisbury Playhouse and LAB and was an ACE and Theatre Royal Plymouth supported programme.
As a writer Emma has had work performed at Theatre 503, RADA, Kemble House and the LAB. Emma is currently studying for a MSt in Creative Writing at Keble College, Oxford.
