If you don't know...Koko Brown

…Let me introduce you!

Koko Brown is a multidisciplinary artist who blends theatre, spoken word and live vocal looping. Her work is unique, electric and brimming with what the world needs to hear right now on race, mental health and gender. 

Alumni Artist in Residence at Roundhouse and Alumni Associate Artist at Ovalhouse, her work has been featured at the National Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Roundhouse, Soho Theatre and at Glastonbury Festival.

Watch her stunning Sofar Sounds performance here, her piece at WORD UP here, and her poems On The Rocks & The Ways In Which You Love Me at RESFEST here.

Her current focus is on THE COLOUR TRILOGY. WHITE - the first in the trilogy - is a piece about what it means to grow up mixed race in contemporary Britain. It was shortlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Speech Award and the Filipa Braganca Award and was featured on The Guardian’s Best Shows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2018. 

You can see the trailer for the next piece in the trilogy - GREY - which explores the intersection between race, gender and mental health.  Buy the play texts of both WHITE  and GREY directly from Koko here.

Koko curates ‘The Other Poets’, a project that delivers a poem by a Black or POC writer to your inbox each week. Join me in receiving these wonderful poems by signing up: here. 

And check out Koko’s Instagram, Twitter & Website. 

Image: Susan Dale