A writer at home trying to write. Artistic Director @hack_theatre currently supported by @HighTide. Currently #Unmute Works in development #Eliza #BorderControl
Joined July 2015
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Just finished 2 weeks R&d with this absolute legend and power woman! So thrilled to have worked with you on this one woman show! Thank you to @hanapascal @TomCurteis @BenWeatherill also for all your awesome work to bring Eliza Doolittle to life @hack_theatre
Just finished 2 great weeks R&D adaptation of #Pygmalion for @hack_theatre
With @MSewell90 writer,@HanaKeegan director and @TomCurteis producer. Feel really satisfied AND I got these lovely flowers. Great way to start TGIF
Love this project!
Shoutout to Team #Eliza, R&D day 9!
We've been experimenting over Zoom with the fantastic @sarah_gordy & @hanapascal on writer @MSewell90's in-progress adaptation of Bernard Shaw's #Pygmalion from the perspective of a woman with a disability.
Great work, team!
#digital #theatre
Been having such a brilliant time with this amazing team!!!
Well done team #Eliza!
We’ve reached the end of week 1 of our R&D with writer @MSewell90 actor @sarah_gordy, director @hanapascal, and it has been a brilliant process so far- so much learnt so far, can’t wait to get going again next week!
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Have you seen these powerful monologues yet?
1. @rioterwriter's Are We, adapted from @DeanAtta's I Come From
2. @athenastevens's De Profundis Femme, adapted from Oscar Wilde
3. @SeanWaiKeung's Jade Emperor myth
4. @theKokoBrown's On Joy, adapted from Audre Lorde
#UNMUTE
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What a great question! I first got involved with #mindfulness from my master #opera teacher in Vienna, Austria, who introduced me to lot of tools for how to start to get my mind on my own side. When you sing, all of you is the instrument. So what you think is what you sing. (1/2)
@MurdockMusings Your #UNMUTE interview features quite a bit of discussion around mindfulness, and you lead the audience through a really great meditation exercise!
When did you first become involved with mindfulness, and has it been important in how you approach your art?
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#Mindfulness is vital to my art. As an artist, I'm mining my emotional experience of life and translating it into what I create. I've learned I need to be very grounded to do this type of expansive work and I'm still learning. I meditate, journal,and make sure to sweatdaily!(2/2)
@MurdockMusings Your #UNMUTE interview features quite a bit of discussion around mindfulness, and you lead the audience through a really great meditation exercise!
When did you first become involved with mindfulness, and has it been important in how you approach your art?
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But yes, I still stand by the sentiment that if we sacrifice our health for 'productivity' then often there's a big price to pay. I personally strive for #success that is when health and productivity are balanced and positively symbiotic.(2/2)
Next up - @MurdockMusings: When you chatted with us for #UNMUTE, you made a lot of really valid points about wellbeing, that the point of the #lockdown being to stay healthy, not to be productive.
Do you think this sentiment has really hit home in the arts & people you know?
This was such an interesting interview discussing the tv and media worlds during covid!
TODAY 10am | #UNMUTE: Australian comedian @JamColley joins us to discuss how #lockdown is going, and the challenges facing comedy right now. Such as how to find humour and create laughter during a global pandemic?
Tune in here: hacktheatre.co.uk/unmute
#comedy
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Live Twitter Q&A with @JamColley today at midday (GMT)!
Join the conversation and ask James about anything within reason- whether it's about writing comedy, or his monologue about #Tiktaalik's first journey from water to sand!
#UNMUTE Day 5
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#UNMUTE ep. 5 is here!
Don't miss @JamColley discussing #lockdown and the challenge of creating comedy during a global pandemic, followed by a humorous, yet touching monologue about #Tiktaalik's first journey onto land. It's unmissable!
Tune in now: youtu.be/uz46kUh46eA
Really excited for this! Join the discussion at 1pm!
LIVE IN ONE HOUR 👉 Michelle Sewell from @hack_theatre joins us for a live interview on Instagram at 1pm to discuss UNMUTE, a project discerning how we can work towards inclusivity in the arts. 🙌 @MSewell90
voicemag.uk/event/7609/insta…
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@theKokoBrown bringing the truth as always! #UNMUTE
In #UNMUTE next week, join London-based theatre-maker @theKokoBrown, who shares how she's found ways to adapt and navigate as an artist during #covid, techniques for looking after wellbeing and how she has been creative during #lockdown hacktheatre.co.uk/unmute #inclusion
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My #UNMUTE interview is live!!
TODAY 10am | #UNMUTE: @theKokoBrown, a spoken word artist & theatre-maker chatted with us about staying creative and adapting to the pandemic.
Koko also shares her incredible adaptation of Audre Lorde's 'Your silence will not protect you'
Tune in here 👉hacktheatre.co.uk/unmute
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It was something I knew I wanted to do before I even started writing my first show #WHITEplay so I was excited to be able to experiment without any pressure.
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Yeah, I think we've had to spend more time with our brains and a lot of the coping mechanisms we've put in place have disappeared. Within the arts we're continuing to lose our industry everyday so that will take a toll.
Q3: @theKokoBrown When we chatted you made important points about artists' wellbeing during COVID, that you have to 'treat yourself like you would treat your best friend', and we couldn't agree more.
Do you think mental health is now more on people's radars in the arts? #UNMUTE
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Q4: @theKokoBrown We've also had the pleasure of watching another show of yours, Grey, which is BSL-integrated and excellently performed by yourself and @Sapphire_Joy.
Having made your work so accessible, do you have any tips for other artists who want to do this more? #UNMUTE
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Wow, these tips to #KeepTheMovementAccessible are brilliant! We agree that artists can take simple, inexpensive steps that make such a big difference for making work accessible.
Any artists taking notice, check out @theKokoBrown's excellent accessibility tips below
👇 #UNMUTE
There are loads of simple ways to make your work more accessible. I posted a few tips here: teapawt.net/theKokoBrown/status/12…
There are also loads of cheaper alternatives like making captions using PowerPoint and a monitor.
But mainly, THINK ABOUT $$$ FOR ACCESSIBILITY FROM THE BEGINNING
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And finally, to end on a fairly nice one... (we hope!)
@theKokoBrown Have you seen or heard anything lately that has really inspired you?
Could be anything really- TV series, movies, docs, music, etc
#UNMUTE
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Yes definitely, #IMayDestroyYou is so powerful, and rightly making a lot of people's lists right now. We've really enjoyed what we've seen so far.
Some great poetry collections too! #UNMUTE
Well, obviously, #IMayDestroyYou by @MichaelaCoel is big inspiration for a lot of us right now.
I've also been reading The @breakbeatpoets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic and re-reading #Nepantla which has an amazing selection of delicious poems.
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That's it for today- thank you so much @thekokobrown for your time for today's #UNMUTE Q&A!
Tune in to catch Koko's inspiring interview on artists' wellbeing, her tips for creatives and unmissable, powerful Audre Lorde adapted monologue here 👉 youtu.be/bMz-fHhnlT4
#UNMUTE
