Curator, Speaker, Consultant, Lecturer, Moderator / Presenter

Profile:​ Culture maker from Berlin, who also lived in Brussels (Belgium) and London (UK) for about a decade. [she/they]

• WORK

Currently, Project Director of AfroPolitan Berlin, Executive Director of The Bread and Roses Theatre in London, Producing Artistic Director of the transnational collective Goblin Baby Co. and part of the selection committee of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in Saarbrücken. Artistically and organisationally involved in numerous performance and film projects, also active in various fields of education, empowerment and communication, as well as author, amongst others, for the German-language anthology Schwarz wird großgeschrieben and the English-language anthology Hear Me Now: Audition Monologues for Actors of Color.

• FOCUS

Conception, development and curation/programming of (new) cultural projects as well as conceiving revised, power- & discrimination-critical structures. Participation and empowerment of people who have to experience structural discrimination, and who are socially and culturally excluded from equal opportunities, in particular BIPoC (Black, Indigenous & People of Colour), queer, neurodiverse and intersectional-feminist perspectives. My artistic practice explores and develops processes, approaches and results that think beyond the status quo and dissolve the confines of conventional art practice. 

• STUDIES

Master of Fine Arts Acting International (East 15 Acting School, University of Essex); Bachelor of Arts Theatre Studies & ongoing PhD dissertation “Diasporadical Stages - Contemporary Afropean Theater & Performance (WT)” (Free University of Berlin)

Expertise / Topics:​

• Intersectional cultural & structural change
• Change-oriented contemporary performance & film work
• Diversity-/representation-oriented performance & film work
• Socio-cultural work
• Anti-discrimination, with a focus on anti-racism
• Intersectional cultural work
• Empowerment, participation & resilience building of BIPoC, with a focus on Black and Afrodiasporic people
• Contemporary Afro(-Euro)pean theatre work
• Curation & programming of performance, film & cultural projects
• Spoken Word / Readings / Performance

References (selection):

• WOW - Women of the World Festival, Southbank Centre
• Beyond the Canon, RADA - Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
• Writing Beyond Genres & Borders, North London Literary Festival, Middlesex University
• BA Drama, BA Creative Writing, Greenwich University
• Artistic Directors of the Future, Theatre Royal Stratford East, National Theatre (UK)
• Hear Me Now, Tamasha Theatre Company​
• Les best de l'humour, Hippodrome Casino Cabaret Theatre
• Afrika Akademie - Schwarze Volkshochschule
• ADAN e.V.- Afrodeutsches Akdemiker Netzwerk
• ProQuote Film
• Instituto Cervantes, Humboldt-Universität
• Integrationsbeirat Friedrichshains-Kreuzberg, Kotti e.V.
• LAFT Berlin Landesverband freie darstellende Künste Berlin e.V.
• Alte Feuerwache e.V., Jugendbildungsstätte Kaubstraße
  

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