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.
Stephanie Prieto Trincado
Dramaturg and Performer
Stephanie Prieto Trincado is a multidisciplinary artivist with over a decade of international experience. Her work is grounded in physical theatre, she is a practitioner of languages that inhabit the body and memory —Biodrama, physical and documentary theatre— her work extends into the creation of paper stages, shadows, and puppetry. Moving between intimate and monumental formats, her work seeks to provoke beauty within spaces of sheer rawness, finding light in the fragility of both material and narrative. She currently is the founder of Hilanderas.ong and co-creator of Casa Lavanda UK in Hackney: a strategic sanctuary for international artivism and multidisciplinary creation. Her more recent projects include: Wanglen by Hilanderas (British Museum), The Voice of the Earth, Blue and the Smile performed at the Kiln Theatre, The Leonora Carrington Series (Brighton Fringe), and Certain Black. Prieto performed in The Leonora Carrington Series (2025) for The Writer’s Mark and has been working in collaboration with Natasha for this performance.
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.