Disabled playwrights Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Vital Xposure

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Lilac Yosiphon

When I was a kid, writing was an activity that came very natural to me. I wrote poetry and prose, monologues and journals and…

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Carmen D’ Cruz

Hi there! I’m Carmen D’Cruz, just your typical average queer, brown, neurodiverse, gender fluid, drag performing playwright from a council estate in South London.…

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Gabrielle MacPherson

In true icebreaker / first-day-in-rehearsals style, let’s play truths and a lie: I am a proud working-class, chips-cheese-and-gravy-loving, disabled artist, from the North of…

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Paula Brett

During our lock-in weekend, I pulled Simon Startin into a virtual Zoom room and asked him: “You know that assumed modern-day-normal-world that a lot…

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Robbie Curran

When I began my career as a young actor with autism, I was – without knowing it – shy, scared and ashamed. Not of…

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Nicole Latchana

I’m a queer neurodiverse woman of colour writing stories from but not always about this perspective, for theatre and TV. I’m interested in telling…

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Fatima Serghini

Hello, my name is Fatima and I own two ring lights. I was named after my two grandmothers, both called Fatima. They had the…

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Victoria Taylor Roberts

Firstly, let me get all the tick boxes out of the way. I am a neurodiverse woman from a regional working-class background who has…