Oct 12, 2026 · 55 min · 10 segments
In this episode of *Sunflower Conversations*, James Dunn speaks with Sophie Riggs about autism, late diagnosis, and the everyday reality of being disbelieved because disability is not visible. We…
Sophie RiggsGuestJames DunnHostWe've left school, and you wanted to pursue your passion of musical theater, which is awesome.
Can you tell me about the, the training you undertook, and some of the experiences you had in your early years in, in musical theater after school?
Um, which is always a great way, because that's a good way to be able to learn how to do harmonies and harmonizing.
Um, however, I was always a soprano, so I never actually got to do a whole heap of harmonizing.
I actually struggled, because I had some harmonies that I actually couldn't do at all.
[laughs] We did end up finding a way of just sort of singing that s- singing that section of that song still sounding like there was a little bit of a harmony there.
Um, and it was a song sung between the character Mary and the character Dickon.
We've left school, and you wanted to pursue your passion of musical theater, which is awesome.
Can you tell me about the, the training you undertook, and some of the experiences you had in your early years in, in musical theater after school?
Um, which is always a great way, because that's a good way to be able to learn how to do harmonies and harmonizing.
Um, however, I was always a soprano, so I never actually got to do a whole heap of harmonizing.
I actually struggled, because I had some harmonies that I actually couldn't do at all.
[laughs] We did end up finding a way of just sort of singing that s- singing that section of that song still sounding like there was a little bit of a harmony there.
Um, and it was a song sung between the character Mary and the character Dickon.
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