Basheba Baptiste

Producer Writer Poet Director Facilitator

Bashiie is a Multi-creative producer, a term she uses to sum up her multiple creative hats. Bashiie has worked with theatres, venues and creative spaces and government run organisations across London and the wider UK including:
The Bush Theatre, The Lyric Hammersmith, The Tom Thumb Theatre and the Young Vic. She is currently the Trainee Producer at Talawa Theatre Company, as part of the Stage One Placement

Her work focuses on accepting anger and lived experience, using it in a way that creates change, and healing trauma through joy and self reflection.

She is most proud of her collaborative work with the Kiln as an Associate artist and her co-production work with Peer Power UK, running empathy and co-production training with secure estates, the NHS and social services.

As a Producer, Bashiie has curated several events and productions, including her, self-written play Memories - a piece of work exploring her experiences of the care system and her West London Monologue Lab, which encourages writers and actors to site read and perform pieces in tandem and her information sharing classes on: Writing from lived experience and CV Training.

Bashiie is the Artistic Director of Care to Culture - a company focused on championing lived experienced young people so they can have better access into the arts as a creative rather than just participants
Bashiie believes that information sharing is the best way to destroy toxic environments and encourage self advocacy.

Her plan is to use Care to Culture to deliver sessions that are far and few between for free or for a cheap price that enables others to access the arts through "unconventional" means. "Knowledge is power and power creates rifts"

Credits

Bush Theatre - Babylon Festival -
Memories (Open mic) -
Memories (Tour) -
Monologue Lab (Event) -
Creative Boundaries Taster Workshop -
Creative Boundaries Workshop -
A New beginning ( Young company production) -
Talawa Connects ( As Trainee) -
Fuel Theatre X Barbican -Midday Run Workshop - Poet
#BlackIs... New Diorama Theatre (Producer)
Best of Enemies - Noel Coward Theatre (Associate Producer)
Shifters - Duke of York (Associate Producer)

Training

Stage one Producers - Bridge the Gap
Trainee Producer - Talawa Theatre company
Alumni - Lyric Hammersmith
Goldsmiths Creative writing short course
Sour Lemons - Making lemonade programme - Arts award Gold
Bachelor Arts - Roehampton university - Drama Studies
Empathy and Awareness - Peer Power
Unconscious Bias, Diversity and Anti-Racism - Talawa Theatre Co

Location

London

Experience

10+ years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Literature
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Creative Access
  • Curating
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Producing
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

No but I am attempting to learn French and Grenadian Creole, so if anyone wants to do a language exchange please let me know

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