Secrets told over telephone

Travis Alabanza
Travis is a writer, performer and theatre maker from Bristol. Their writing, performance and public discourse centres on trans and Black identities.  

For stage, Travis wrote and performed in their debut show Burgerz which won the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, sold out at Southbank Centre and Traverse Theatre and toured internationally. It was also voted one of The Guardian Readers Top Shows of The Year. The text is published by Oberon Books. Their play Overflow, which premiered at and streamed from The Bush, was met with critical acclaim including numerous four-star reviews and was shortlisted for the George Devine Award. Travis currently has a new show for stage in development with the Southbank Centre and Hackney Showrooms. Their latest theatre commission, Sound of the Underground, will premiere as part of the Royal Court’s new season in 2023. For screen, Travis is developing projects with Lookout Point and Left Bank. 

Travis’ debut book None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary was published in 2022 by Canongate. ‘A breath of fresh air … There’s no memoir like it ’- Independent 

Travis’ work has also appeared on BBC Front Row, The Verb and in 2019 they hosted their first radio documentary ‘Going to The Gay Bar’ for BBC Radio Four. 

Their work has also earned them a place on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list 2021, on the Evening Standard’s list of 25 most influential Londoners under 25 and on the Dazed100 list. 

Felix Mufti-Wright
Felix Mufti is a scouse activist, performer, writer and chaos-causer who loves to tell his unhinged life stories through rhythm n’ rap inspired spoken word. He co-founded ‘Transcend Theatre’ where he writes and performs in authentic, usually unexplored stories of Trans experience. His sell-out debut ACE funded play, ‘How to Kill a Rose,’ was rated 4/5 stars by North West End and he is currently working on his next project ‘Be Gay, Do Crime.’ His main aim in all his work is to tell stories so unapologetically and raw, anyone of any background can relate with their own vulnerability. We all laugh and cry the same and Felix aims to make us all do so together. He is also an organiser for Trans Pride Liverpool, Transgender Day of Remembrance and is the Trans Rep for Socialist LGBT+ Network.

Octavia Nyombi
Octavia is a trans performance artist from Leicester, with a first class Drama degree from De Montfort University. In 2022, she wrote a spoken-word poem about racism within contemporary Britain, performed as part of Curve Theatre’s ‘Finding Home’ plays. And her short play “A City in Moontrimony” toured the UK with Tour De Moon. She also creates with her queer, feminist theatre company Category: Peach, where she has been co-creating Pol-Spiracy; a play-along, multimedia theatre show, set amongst the swelling hostility facing the LGBT+ community in Poland.

Being mixed-race herself, Octavia has a passion for cross-cultural art and conversations like these – most recently directing ‘Mara Ba’; a trilingual play in English, Gujarati and Swahili spanning from 1950’s Kenya to contemporary Britain.

She loves to bring communities together through the power of art, such as in her role as Chair of Nottingham Playhouse’s Youth Board, where she has been integral in setting up a free, community monthly group, Nottingham Queer Arts Collective. 

Ebun Sodipo
Ebun Sodipo makes work for those who will come after: the black trans people of the future. Her interdisciplinary practice narrates her construction of a black trans-feminine self after slavery and colonialism. Through a process of fragmentation, collage, and fabulation, she devises softer, other-wise ways of imagining and speaking about the body, desire, archives, and the past.

Her work has been shown, read, watched, performed at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Centre, Bernie Grants Arts Centre, Narrative Projects, Raven Row, The Block Museum of Art, South London Gallery, Arcadia Missa’s How To Sleep Faster, Auto Italia, ICA, Tate Britain, Embassy Gallery, Wasafiri, CCA Annex, Camden Arts Centre, Frieze. She was artist in residence at Porthmeor Studios, and Gasworks. She is  currently working on commissions for VISUAL Carlow, FACT Liverpool. She also teaches at Falmouth University. 

Campbell X
Campbell X is a writer/director who directed the award-winning queer urban romantic comedy feature film STUD LIFE.  His film Stud Life was voted by the Guardian as one of the top 10 Black British feature  films ever made. It was also in Vogue magazine as one of the best films to watch in 2020. Stud Life was also selected by the British Film Institute as one of the top 8 queer films to view while we were all on lockdown.

Campbell is one of the writers at the Royal Court for My White Best Friend theatre series.

He Co-directed with Chinonyerem Odimba with Talking About A Revolution at the Pump House, Lyric Hammersmith and Bristol Old Vic produced by tiata fahodzi.

Campbell’s latest film Still We Thrive about Black joy and resistance, is now screening globally in film festivals. He directed and produced the short film DES!RE about joy and sensuality for men (trans and non-binary) and masculine women ie studs/butches and the documentary VISIBLE about reclaiming QTBIPOC UK history.  

Campbell is in post-production on his second feature Low Rider which was filmed in the Western Cape region of South Africa starring Emma Mcdonald and Thishiwe Ziqubu 

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