LOWERHOUSE is an emerging live performance company by interdisciplinary artist Morgan Brame. Working with theatres, nightclubs, bars and alternative performance spaces, we create bold, high-energy experiences.
A LOWERHOUSE show is loud and vibrant, dancing around a room in laughter and song. Yet, at its core, these shows are poignant, honest and communal, inviting audiences to share spirited moments of joy and togetherness.
Rooted in queer and working-class art, LOWERHOUSE draws from cabaret, drag, spoken word and nightlife to reimagine live experiences.
LOWERHOUSE is currently developing a range of performances in several disciplines and is gearing up to make its public debut under this new title, making this the most exciting moment to be a part of shaping its identity.
Morgan Brame is an interdisciplinary theatre-maker, who founded LOWERHOUSE in the vision of making performance that squishes pleasure and fear together. Morgan often works with queer theory, cabaret and song to host conversations between queerness and the world. He believes this is so important that he took the time to make this website and write a bio in third person.
His piece Writing Letters was awarded the Clive Barker Award from the University of Warwick. After a successful research and development run, Morgan was supported by the Warwick Arts Centre to present a staged reading in June 2024. This research was supported by the Theatre and Performance department and ethics committee of the university’s School of Creative Arts Performance and Visual Cultures. More details of this project can be found here.
Morgan is also an experienced theatre producer, most recently producing an a cappella concert in the Warwick Arts Centre’s 547-seat theatre with a cast of over 40 vocalists. Morgan also spent two years as the director of The Improv Musical for the Edinburgh Fringe festival, a show by Music Theatre Warwick. The show ran for the full month at Gilded Balloon’s 234-seat venue ‘Big Yin’ to rave reviews. His appreciation for audience participation and imperfection influence LOWERHOUSE today.
Morgan studied Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, and is due to graduate from his MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama this year.
REVIEWS
'Morgan Brame is excellent', with 'a unique roguish wickedness'
'roar with laughter at the cast’s shenanigans as they surprise us at every turn'
AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
“a sophisticated, eloquent, and experimentally innovative exploration of queerness”
“well-crafted, evocative poetry, replete with haunting, soaring images”
“I know this will stay with me (it already is a part of me and had me crying for 2+ hours), it was poetic, beautiful, incredibly well punctuated through set, songs, beats and movement! Stunning.”
“really special and moving, and really captured so many feelings of loss and love and fear and pain and happiness and community, so many of which I connected to. It was just really really special.”
“the realest acting I've ever seen and was fresher than any other concept or execution I've witnessed.”
“an intensely nurturing experience”