DaDaAwards Nominations 5
Deborah Williams
Telling stories and entertaining is my priority. It has taken a while but now it's clear this is my soul purpose and performance is the best tool. Travelling around it has become clear that the 'grey areas' whatever they may be, are still there and the more work i can create and develop without beating people about the head the better. I take what i do seriously but not myself. Having people react and talk about the work i do and the stories is the only good thing about being on tour. Vote for me and i promise I will come up and see you some time!
Fittings Multimedia
We make performance works that fuse different styles of storytelling e.g. visual and tactile artworks, music, dance, narrative and physical theatre, film, puppetry, sign language, lecture...
We make our work with artists and performers from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences.
We make our work in a variety of settings. Theatres, castles, tents and toilets.
We make our work to entertain and to express what it is to be human.
Fittings work is created by companies of culturally diverse professional artists and performers and, in particular, integrating disabled and non-disabled people.
Jez Colborne
Jez Colborne - professional actor and multi-talented singer, pianist, harmonica player and composer also known as JC Jamma. He has a long list of musical accomplishments including being the first ever winner of the European Disability Song Contest (2003).
Jez is an actor with the UK's leading theatre company working with learning disabled artists, Mind the Gap. He has had lead roles in five national tours with the company in Of Mice and Men, Jekyll and Hyde, Pygmalion, Don Quixote and Cyrano de Bergerac. He has been touring On The Verge, a fantastic one-man show, with the company this year, including an international performance in China!
Liz Carr
Since her comedy debut with Nasty Girls at Dadafest 2001, Liz Carr is now becoming a successful stand-up comedian on the mainstream and disability arts circuits. Liz has performed over 120 solo gigs, is part of the 'Abnormally Funny People' line up, took the 5 star show 'Bravetarts' to Edinburgh Fringe 2006 alongside comic Tanyalee Davis and performed at The Comedy Store London in the Funny Women Awards Final 2006. Liz writes for the BBC disability website Ouch! and co-hosts the irreverently funny Ouch! podcast with Mat Fraser.
'Right on the edge and fabulously black', The Scotsman
