Meet our Team

Natasha Higdon – Founder and Artistic Director

Natasha Higdon is the Founder and Artistic Director of ‘The Writer’s Mark’, forming the Company in July 2023. Natasha is a Director, Lecturer, Theatre Reviewer and Practitioner in Performing Arts. Her more recent work – *Salome* by Oscar Wilde was directed at The New Venture theatre, described as a ‘Must See Show’ – praised for blurring lines between theatre and experience, ‘Higdon tackles this play’s sacramental language head-on, with Brook-like ‘holy theatre.’ Natasha has written publications on: Antonin Artaud and Steven Berkoff, writing for *‘We Teach Drama* and *Go Live Theatre.* She has continued her on-going research on Antonin Artaud, attending an international conference on Artaud in July 2024. Natasha specialises in physical theatre, her approach is experimental – focusing on music and movement to communicate her narrative. Her passional for surrealism and expressionistic theatre began from her childhood when she watched Fritz Lang’s Metropolis with her father, ‘Metropolis is the spring board to many of my ideas, the visceral experience and the heightened physicality – blending different worlds.’ Natasha now works for Fringe Review UK, where she specialises in reviewing physicalised works. Natasha also teaches as both a Lecturer at Chichester University and Kingston, and as a theatre practitioner for *Third Space* in Brighton.

Molly O’Neill – Artist and Researcher

Molly is a Brighton based Artist and researcher who has worked with The Writer’s Mark
since 2023. She formed part of ‘The Franz Kafka Series’ as an artist and now works for The Writer’s Mark as a Researcher and Artist. She has a degree in Illustration Animation from Kingston School of Art as well as
a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the University of Brighton. Molly’s focus within her
practice is around environment and art as a tool to engage with empathy for the nature. She
also uses literature as a pool of inspiration within her work. She has worked freelance for the
past five years within illustration and animation working with organisations such as Future
Youth Records and *The New Malden Council*. She has also spent her time exhibiting and
screening work in various places like *The Regency Town House* and at *RYBKA*.

El Locksmith – Illustrator

El Locksmith is a Suffolk based illustrator and aspiring storyboard artist/animator who has an A-Level in Graphic Communication as well as a Diploma in Level 4 Foundation Art and Design. She is starting a BA(Hons) Animation course at Norwich University of Arts 2024. El‘s artwork is inspired by storytelling and narrative. Her inspirations include Pixar character designer Deanna Marsigliese as well as Story Artist Zachary Maxwell Shore. El loves creating art which centres around interesting, deep characters and which tells intriguing stories.

Donations

With your support our team and cast can continue to evolve the work with intricate use of props, set and puppetry. Funding will also support the ample resources needed for our artists; to create the best experiences possible. In addition to this, The Writer’s Mark is seeking to evolve in a space near you – So much work goes into the world of the writer, that it would simply be a shame not to share this world reinvented with you – the people. Raising funds helps support on multi level – to donate towards our future events please click on the paypal link below. Thank you for your support.