Daisy Eris Campbell

Daisy Eris Campbell (born 1978),[1] is a British writer, actress and theatre director. Daughter of actor and director Ken Campbell and actress and therapist Prunella Gee.[2] She staged The Warp, a revival of Neil Oram's 24-hour play (which her father had directed many times in the late seventies and early eighties) at The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.[3] Campbell also adapted Robert Anton Wilson’s cult autobiographical book Cosmic Trigger for the stage.[4] She played the role of her mother in the play.[4] Cosmic Trigger is a kind of sequel to her father's adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Allegedly, Daisy was conceived during the original production of Illuminatus! [4] In part, the play of Cosmic Trigger deals with the production of Ken Campbell's adaptation of Illuminatus! in Liverpool in 1976.[4]

Not to be confused with Daisy Campbell, a British film actress of the silent era.

Daisy Campbell
Born
Daisy Eris Campbell

1978 (age 44–45)
England
Occupation(s)Writer, actress, director
Years active1990s–present
Parent(s)Ken Campbell
Prunella Gee

In Liverpool, in 2017, she directed the KLF's Welcome to the Dark Ages.[5]

In 2018 Campbell was orchestrating and touring a group reading around Britain of the novelist Alistair Fruish's 46,000-word monosyllabic novel "The Sentence".[6]

In 2019 Jason Watkins won the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism for his review of the Daisy Campbell's one-woman show Pigspurt’s Daughter.[7]

References
  1. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2006). Debrett's People of Today Two Thousand and Six. London: Debrett's Peerage. p. 261. ISBN 9781870520324. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  2. Nick, Clarke (14 November 2014). "'Illuminatus!' director's daughter returns to play that gave her life".
  3. The House, Via (21 November 2014). "Playing the Cosmic Trigger: An Interview with Daisy Eris Campbell". The Psychedelic Press.
  4. Coveney, Michael (10 May 2017). "Cosmic Trigger: Ken Campbell's daughter captures Illuminatus! spirit in trippy epic". The Guardian.
  5. Ellen, Barbara (26 August 2017). "KLF Welcome to the Dark Ages". The Guardian.
  6. Cooper, Neil. "Epic four-hour reading of Alistair Fruish's novel is a return to arts as resistance". The Herald Scotland.
  7. Watkins, Jason (10 March 2019). "Burgess Prize winner 2019: Jason Watkins on Daisy Campbell's Pigspurt's Daughter". The Guardian.
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