ARIA award-winning children's musical spectacular, Emma Memma, is an emerging entertainment and education brand focused on visual communication. Featuring beloved children's entertainer, Emma Watkins, with best friend and performer, Elvin Lam - Emma Memma and Elvin Melvin have inspired family audiences around the globe since 2022 to dance, sign, sing, tell stories and engage in interactive musical experiences.
Originally from Hong Kong, Elvin Lam was born profoundly Deaf. Elvin's creative passions started with studying theatre design and ice-skating throughout his teenage years. And after a decade of ice skating and attending figure skating competitions, Elvin moved to Melbourne, Australia and in his twenties tried on his first pair of dancing shoes. He joined Deaf Can Dance (Currently, The Delta Project) bringing together Deaf and hearing dancers in 2006, performing in Melbourne, South Australia and Queensland and joining their last performance 'Under My Skin' in 2016. Elvin and Emma first met in 2019 for Sydney Festival's 'She Conjured The Clouds' accessible work by Justene Williams. Currently, Elvin is an avid student of the adult ballet classes at The Australian Ballet and has just recently become a qualified Auslan teacher.
Dancer and filmmaker, Emma Watkins, began her performance career early from the age of 3, nurturing her love of dance and movement, performing ballet, Irish, hip-hop, tap and contemporary dance at The McDonald College for Performing Arts and ED5 International in Sydney. Emma found a love for film editing during her time at Sydney Film School and completed her Masters in Media Arts and Production at UTS. Emma joined Australian children’s entertainment group, The Wiggles in 2010, becoming the first female Wiggle in the main line-up. Emma’s passion for movement and body expression expanded to an interest in sign language and raising awareness of Australia's Deaf community since she was young. Ever since, Emma pursued studying sign language, with a Diploma of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) and Diploma in Interpreting at Deaf Connect and recently completing her PhD at Macquarie University combining all her passions, focusing on the affective and artistic integrations of sign language, dance and film editing.
