BIO
LOWERHOUSE is a live performance company by interdisciplinary artist Morgan Brame. Working with theatres, nightclubs, bars and alternative performance spaces, we create bold, high-energy experiences out.
Pleasure first, always, in a world were its scarce. A LOWERHOUSE show is loud and vibrant, dancing around a room in laughter and song. Yet, at its core, poignant, honest and communal, inviting audiences to share spirited moments together.
Rooted in queer and working-class art, LOWERHOUSE draws from cabaret, drag, spoken word and nightlife to reimagine live experiences.
And no, you don't have to wipe your feet before you enter x
morgan
(he/him) Creative Director
Morgan Brame is an interdisciplinary theatre-maker and creative producer, who founded LOWERHOUSE to make performance that squishes together pleasure and fear. Morgan 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. Pretty intense.
AKA Dirty Little Mark, Morgan also works as a drag performer, a journey that began in the loving embrace of Soho Theatre's Cabaret and Drag Lab. Since, LOWERHOUSE has had many absurd influences from fashion, raves, bin lorries - you name it. Most recently, PLEASE was constructed, an avant-garde clubland filled with bin bag couture and all the glory of Annie Lennox.
Morgan's piece Writing Letters was awarded the Clive Barker Award from the University of Warwick to lead an intensive verbatim research process into hate crime. After a successful R&D surrounded by loved ones, 'letters' transferred to the Warwick Arts Centre in June 2024 as a project in partnership with the Creative Learning Team. More details of this project can be found here.
Morgan has experience producing cabaret, music concerts and theatre and 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 is a recipient of a BA in Theatre and Performance from the University of Warwick and an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
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”