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Michaela Coel

MICHAELA COEL

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

London born Michaela Coel. Originally bursting into the Arts as a poet and singer (namely 'Michaela the Poet'), she's now made an skilful transition into drama. Her talent has gained her features in some of the UK's most premiered venues including Wembley Arena, Sadler's Wells, the Roundhouse, Carling Academy and many more. After launching her debut album and crowning Stratford Circus with its first independent sell-out concert in 2009, the album 'Fixing Barbie' has been a great success and earned her performances in South Africa, Orlando, and Rotterdam, as well as supporting artists Ms Dynamite, Speech Debelle, Terri Walker, Faith evans, and a month long tour of New York. Since graduating from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in July 2012, Michaela has written and performed in the sell-out play Chewing Gum Dreams (the Yard / Bush Theatre) which earned her the Alfred Fagon Award for Best Black Playwright and a special performance on the Cottesloe Stage of the National Theatre in November 2012. Upcoming performances for 2013 include Television: Top Boy 2, Law & Order UK, and Theatre: Three Birds at the Royal exchange Theatre (Manchester) and Bush Theatre from Feb-Apr 2013, HOMe at the National Theatre Summer 2013. With sounds influenced by her birth place; east London, artists Chase and Status, Adele and Grace Jones, Michaela's music is progressive, bold and uncompromisingly truthful. With a winning personality and enough warmth to heat up London in winter, Michaela Coel still occasionally graces the stage as a singer/poet and intends to release an album available for free download in September 2013.

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below is a list of Michaela Coel's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blurred Lines         Chewing Gum Dreams         Three Birds

Blurred Lines

Synopsis:
A journey through the minefield of contemporary gender politics. An all female cast dissect what it means to be a woman today: in the workplace, in cyberspace, on screen, on stage and in relationships. This new piece explores the reality of equality in Britain today, where feminism is a dirty word and pornography is inescapable. Blurred Lines is a fast-paced, razor sharp glimpse of a culture which promised liberation and delivered Robin Thicke. With songs.

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written by Carrie Cracknell and Nick Payne. Devised by the company with poetry by Michaela Coel. The play draws inspiration from Kat Baynard's book "The Equality Illusion, 2010).

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Chewing Gum Dreams

Chewing Gum Dreams
Tracey Gordon, the 67 bus, friendship, sex, UK garage, school, music, teachers, friendship, periods, emergency contraceptive, arse and tits, friendship, raves, tampons, white boys, God, money. Friendship. aaron, Candice, sex and Connor Jones. Chewing Gum Dreams is a one-woman play that recalls those last days of innocence before adulthood.

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Oberon Books (2013) >>>    978-1783190140

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Three Birds

Synopsis:
Siblings Tiana, Tionne and Tanika have found themselves home alone. Tiana's keeping it all together by taking charge of housework and homework. But Tionne's experiments are getting stranger and Tanika's starting to act up. As the outside world begins to press in, the three will do anything to keep their secret safe from the adults who come to call. A startling and darkly comic drama about childhood, family and fantasy. Set in South east London

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