Kaleya Baxe

Writer Director Facilitator Dramaturg

Kaleya Baxe is a British born German Angolan writer, director and facilitator whose work pushes the boundaries of storytelling in creative and collaborative environments. She trained as a facilitator on the Applied Theatre course at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and has worked on outreach projects at the National Theatre, Young Vic, and Kiln. As a director and writer, she consistently offers alternative perspectives to political conversations around love, race and relationships.


As a multi-disciplinary artist she is interested in where research, art, and real life intersect, as well as writing as a form of archiving. Her current work includes her first writing commission The Tree Who Found Her Roots, dir. Rebekah Murrel (Jouvert, Harold Pinter) prod. by Uproot Productions, a Seed Commission for NDONGO, a new musical in collaboration with her father, Afro-latin dancer and choreographer Garcia Baxe (Camden People’s Theatre), and transitioning into the world of film as a writer and director. Her latest project waterlilies is part-scripted part-devised, and explores love as a political contradiction to capitalism with Contemporary Performance Practice students at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her play the light that blinds was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023, and she is currently working on a new piece of writing as part of the Bush Theatre Emerging Writers Group.

Credits

DIRECTOR, Is God Is, LAMDA Carne Theatre, 2024

WRITER+DIRECTOR, waterlilies, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2023

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Odyssey: The Underworld, National Theatre, 2023

DIRECTOR, Half Empty Glasses, Paines Plough's ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall + UK tour, 2022

DIRECTOR, Patricia Gets Ready (for a date with the man that used to hit her), Brixton House, 2022

DRAMATURG, Hear Myself Think S2, Spotify, 2022

WRITER, The Tree Who Found Her Roots R&D, Chickenshed, 2022

DIRECTOR, Queens of Sheba, LAMDA, 2022

TRAINEE DIRECTOR, Paines Plough 2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Black Love, ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall, 2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, May Queen, ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall, 2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Hungry, ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall, 2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Really Big and Really Loud, ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall, 2021

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Snowflake, Kiln Theatre, 5 weeks, 2019.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Mephisto, Gate Theatre, 5 weeks, 2019.

DIRECTOR, Patricia Gets Ready, White Bear Theatre, 4 nights, 2019.

DIRECTOR, Deux Femmes on the Edge de la Revolution (extract), Roundhouse, 1 night, 2019.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, RADIO, Arcola Theatre, 3 weeks, 2019.

ASSISTANT FACILITATOR, Uk's Baddest Kids (Kiln Youth Theatre), St Catherine's Church, 3 nights, 2019.

ASSISTANT FACILITATOR, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Arcola Academy), Arcola Theatre, 5 nights, 2019.

Training

2023 - 2024: Bush Theatre Emerging Writers Group
Aug 2023: Gecko Theatre’s Summer Residency
2020-2021: Soho Writers Lab
2018-2019: Young Vic Theatre – Intro to Directing with Roy Alexander Weise
2018: Tangle African & Caribbean Theatre – Educator Training
2016-2019: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama – BA Drama, Applied Theatre and Education
2015: National Youth Theatre – Summer Course
2015: Tender Education and Arts – Peer Mentoring and Youth Facilitator Training (OCN Level 2)

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Film - documentary
  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Literature
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - documentary
  • TV - drama
  • Visual arts

What I do

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

Additional Languages

German, Portuguese

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