Queer Creatives Panel, Join in Person or on Zoom

Victoria Wijeratne, Nando Messias, and Matthew Jacobs Morgan (left to right), come to Rose Bruford to talk about their work.

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Matthew Jacobs Morgan

Matthew is an actor and writer-director from London. He was included in Deadline's list of Eight Rising TV Scribes To Watch Out For In 2021. He began his career in acting, with credits including 'My Almost Famous

Family' (BBC2) 'Cuffs' (Tiger Aspect/BBC1) 'and 'Wasted' (Angel Eye Media/E4) as well as theatre credits including 'Our Town' (Almeida Theatre). Matthew's first short film as a writer/ director 'Gracie' won various awards as well as screening internationally and his feature film 'Mine' is being developed as a feature film.

Victoria Wijeratne

Victoria is a self-taught composer for Film & TV, specialising in high-end film productions, combining her own unique experimental style with contemporary classical elements of film music scoring.

In 2011, she won Best Composer at Underwire Film Festival for Louise Marie Cooke's short film First Bite. This led her to scoring her first feature film The Liability, starring Tim Roth and Jack O’Connell.

Victoria has since scored projects such as Siren (with the Bergersen String Quartet), Hong Kong Roof Top Rebels for Al Jazeera Media Network, Missed Conceptions, and 69, a feature doc directed by Rob Eagle, about the oldest gay leather club in Europe, which premiered as part of Pride in London at Tate Britain in July 2018. In 2021 I Choose, a fiction drama directed by Tina Pasotra, which Victoria scored was nominated for best short film at BAFTA Cymru Awards.

Nando Messias

Nando Messias' work straddles performance art, dance and theatre. Their performances combine beautiful images with a fierce critique of gender, visibility and violence. Nando has performed at prestigious venues such as the Royal Court, The Gate, Hayward Gallery, V&A, Tate Britain, Roundhouse, Royal Vauxhall Tavern and ICA, among other spaces across the UK and internationally.

As well as a practitioner, Nando is movement director and a researcher of queer theory and performance. Nando’s publications include ‘Sissy that Walk: The Sissy’s Progress’ in Queer Dramaturgies (2016), ‘visibility: Performance and Activism’ in Performing Interdisciplinarity (2017), 'Injurious Acts: A Struggle With Sissy in Performance in Choros International Dance Journal (2018) and 'Bibi is a Sissy: Drag, Death by Silence and the Journey to Self-Determination from Brazil to Britain' in Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories (2020).

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