Amy Trigg (born in 1992) is a British actress and writer. She is best known for the role of Agnes in The Little Big Things, for which she won the Olivier Award as Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a musical in 2024.
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Early life and education
Trigg was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair. She grew up in Witham, Essex and loved theatre from a very young age.
She trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, graduating in 2013, and was the first wheelchair user to graduate from a performance course at the academy.
Acting career
Trigg's first role was Laura in The Glass Menagerie at Nottingham Playhouse in 2016. Trigg was cast as Sally in a UK tour of The Who's Tommy in 2017, part of a project called Ramps on the Moon, funded by the Arts Council and aimed at highlighting disabled artists and performers.
She was part of the 2019 Royal Shakespeare Company season in the roles of Juliet in Measure for Measure and Biondella in The Taming of the Shrew. In an interview with the RSC she highlighted the importance of representation for audiences, as "it's still uncommon to have wheelchair-using actors onstage". During her time with the RSC she also wrote a regular blog as part of the Whispers from the Wings series, where she shares her experience, as well as chat with fellow cast members.
In July 2023 full cast for the musical The Little Big Things was announced, with Trigg joining in the role of Agnes. The show is based on the best-selling memoir of Henry Fraser of the same name. Trigg won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical for this role in 2024, becoming the first disabled actor to win in this category (and only second to win an Olivier Award). The musical was added to the streaming platform "National Theatre at home" in April 2024, after its extended run and closure in March of the same year.
Writing career
Trigg started focusing on writing after graduating because of a lack of jobs and accessibility for wheelchair users in theatre, as well as performing comedy shows. She was then approached by writer Scarlett Curtis to contribute to the book Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and Other Lies), to which big names also contributed, such as Keira Knightley and Gemma Arterton.
In 2020 Trigg was the joint recipient of the first Women's Prize for Playwriting for her full-length play Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me. Her play centres on a disabled young woman, Juno, and is meant to be performed by an actor using a wheelchair. The show premiered – with Trigg in the role of Juno – at the Kiln Theatre in 2021, returning to the venue in 2022 alongside a nationwide tour.
Trigg is one of the writers for the British TV series Ralph & Katie (a spin off of the BBC1/ITV Studios show The A Word).
She has been part of various writing programmes from the BBC TV Drama Writers' Programme (2021), 4Screenwriting (2021), BBC Drama Room (2020/21), BBC Writers' Access Group (2020/21), the Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting Group (2020/21) and BBC Children's New Voices (2020).
Personal life
Trigg got engaged to actor Jordan Benjamin in Frinton-on-Sea in 2024. The two met rehearsing for the musical The Little Big Things.