Cultural Leadership

Core Companies

Festivals

Creative Producing

Juries

Awards

Degrees

Memberships

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Core Companies / Projects

AfroPolitan Berlin - Project & Artistic Director (since Sep 2020)
​A Black community project with the mission to strengthen Black & Afrodiasporic people and the communities in which they live and work, through workshops, cultural events, community meet-ups and more. www.afropolitan.berlin 

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Goblin Baby Co. - Producing Artistic Director & Founder (since Mar 2013)
​A transcultural artistic collective company, with a changing & growing line-up, creating bold and vibrant original works focused on authentic representation and radical exploration. www.goblinbaby.com

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The Bread & Roses Theatre
- Artistic Director (2014 - 2018)​ ​​- Executive Director (2014-2022) - & Co-Founder (2012 - 2014)
​An award-winning and innovative fringe pub theatre in South London. www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk
A sister venue in central London was open from Januarry 2019 to February 2020. www.chapelplayhouse.co.uk

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Festivals

Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis - Selection Committee / Programmer / Moderator (since 2020)
Considered the most important newcomer film festival in the German-speaking world. www.ffmop.de

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Performing Arts Festival Berlin
-  Associate Director (Feb - Aug 2019) - ​Co-Director (Organisation) (Sep 2019 - Jul 2020) ​
​A festival celebrating Berlin’s independent performing arts community. www.performingarts-festival.de

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Clapham Fringe Festival - Co-Founder (in 2015) & Co-Manager (2015, 2016 & 2017)
​A yearly performing arts festival in the vibrant South West London area. www.claphamfringe.com

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• One Billion Rising Festival - Producing Artistic Director & Founder (Sep 2015 - Mar 2016)

A creative campaign in February 2016, part of the biggest mass global action demanding an end to violence against women.
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• UNHEARD Festivals - Producing Artistic Director & Founder (Mar 2013 - Mar 2015)

A unique performance festival exploring themes around sexual abuse and violence, which took place in 2013 and 2015 in London.

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Creative Producing

• ​A.U.T.I.S.M. - Artistically Ultimately Tangibly Intensely Shamelessly Myself by Tessa Hart, 2023, Vierte Welt, Berlin
• Schwarze Zukunft by Tessa Hart, 2022/2023, Theater Expedition Metropolis, Berlin
• The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award - Winning Plays, 2019-2022, production support & publication; Who You Are and What You Do by Hugh Dichmont, I and the Village by Darren Donohue, Hungerland by Rachel O'Regan, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
• ​Raise the Vibration (V-Day Performance), 2020, Amerika-Gedenkbilbiothek, Berlin
• TRUMPED (feature film), 2019, Bethnal Films (Executive Producer)
• ​The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, 2013-2019, The Space, London; Rose Lipman Building, London;  The Bread & Roses Theatre, London; ​Theater Verlängertes Wohnzimmer, Berlin
• ​Little Did I Know by Doc Andersen-Bloomfield. 2018, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
• Where do we go from here? Playwrights react to Brexit and Trump, 2017, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
• Fran & the Littlest Reindeer by Tilly Lunken, 2017, Rosemary Branch Theatre, London; ​The Bread & Roses Theatre, London (Associate Producer)
• Alone Inside the Box, 2016, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
• Bloodletting by Emma Gibson, 2015, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
• The Princess Monologues, 2015/2016, Hen & Chickens Theatre, London; Theatre N16, London; ​The Space, London; The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
• CinderElla & Her Smelly Old Slipper ​by Tessa Hart, 2015, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
• (S)Elfish Christmas by Tessa Hart, 2015, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London
• The Devil & Stepashka ​by Claire Booker, 2014, The Space, London; ​Ye Olde Rose & Crown, London
• The Proposal / To Be a Wife by Anton Chekhov / Tilly Lunken, 2014, Hen & Chickens Theatre, London
• FORESEEN, Short looks into post-apocalyptic futures, 2014, Hen & Chickens Theatre, London
• RETOLD, Fairytales without the 'happily-ever-after', 2013/2014, ​The Space, London; Hen & Chickens Theatre, London
• The Platform, A Page to Stage Scratch Night for New Writing, 2012-2018, The Bread & Roses Theatre, London

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Jury Activities

IKARUS Award - Nomination Jury (year-round since Sep 2021)
Berlin's Children & Youth Theatre Award by the JugendKulturService (JKS). www.jugendkulturservice.de/de/theater/ikarus/

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Furthermore, amongst others, for

• Berliner Schaufenster - Darstellende Künste für die Jüngsten​ (2023)
• Kreativ-Transfer (since 2023)
• ​Berlin Senate Department for Culture & Europe (2022)
• Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste (2021)
• Kultur- & Kreativpilot*innen (2021)
• Les best de l'humour (2017)

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Awards

• London Pub Theatre Awards "Commendation for Services to Pub Theatres" for Joint Directors of The Bread & Roses Theatre, 2020
• Best Feature Film Award, Eurasia International Film Festival, for TRUMPED (as Executive Producer & lead actress), 2018
• Free Speech Award, Cult Critic Movie Awards, for TRUMPED (as Executive Producer & lead actress), 2018
• ICWP 5050 Applause Award during Artistic Directorship for The Bread & Roses Theatre in 2015, 2016 & 2017

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Degrees / Formal Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Theatre Studies - Free University of Berlin, 2006-2009
• Master of Fine Arts (MFA) - Acting International - East 15 Acting School (London) / University of Essex, 2009-2011
• Tamasha Playwrights - one-year training programme for selected playwrights with Tamasha Theatre Company (London), 2015-2016
• Criterion New Writing - one-year training programme for selected playwrights with Criterion Theatre (London), 2016-2017
• Currently pursuing a PhD at FU Berlin  with the working title "Diasporadical Spaces - Contemporary Afropean Performing Arts across (Post-) German contexts"
• Currently pursuing SG-certified qualification in "Systemic Coaching and Organisational Development" at SIA Berlin (2022-2024)

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Memberships & Affiliations

• Schwarze Filmschaffende Community (Deutschland)
• Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) e.V.
• Bundesverband Schauspiel (BFFS) e. V.
• Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (verdi)
• Queer Media Society
• Black Feminist Future
• Neuen deutschen Medienmacher*innen
• Autismus verstehen e.V.