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Segun Lee-French

SEGUN LEE-FRENCH

  
Nationality:    British
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Of Nigerian and British parentage, Segun is a singer, poet, producer/composer, playwright, film-maker and club promoter, fluent in French and Spanish. as a vocalist he has performed with innumerable jazz and pop artists, notably Geoff Barrow of Portishead, the Urban Cookie Collective, archie Shepp and cult hip-hop band earthling recording on two albums for Cooltempo. In 2001, Segun was commissioned by British Council to make Western Style, a short film about jealousy and spycams and dancehall fashion in a club in Moss Side, Manchester, which he wrote, directed and filmed. Segun's debut stage show, 'Bro 9' at Contact Theatre, opened to critical acclaim in April 2003 & won Best Fringe Performer & Best Design in the prestigious Manchester evening News Theatre awards. He has also had several commissions & broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 & Radio Manchester. In 2006, Bro 9 was produced as a critically acclaimed short film for the UK Film Council starring Segun and directed by Juliet ellis. the film was produced by Bullet Boy producers b3media, launched at BAFTA in 2006. and screened at London Film Festival & Capetown Film Festival. Segun is a founder member of Manchester's 'speakeasy People' poetry & music collective, which is one of UK's longest established Black Arts collectives. In autumn 2005, Segun was nominated for the Arts Foundation Performance Poetry award. In 2005, Segun was commissioned by Big Creative Ideas to write 'Booty Call', a play for young people, which toured the UK in autumn 2006, gaining rave reviews in the Telegraph & the Stage. From 2003 to 2006, Segun worked as the North West Regional Coordinator for apples and Snakes, the UK's long established poetry organisation, to develop spoken word activity across the North West region. He is currently writing a new solo show 'Liar/Opuro' for the Green Room, Manchester and a musical, 'Venus & the Killer Bees' commissioned by Contact Theatre, Manchester, Birmingham Rep and eclipse Theatre.

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below is a list of Segun Lee-French's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Ayo And Ade's Big London Safari         Booty Call         Bro 9
Ayo And Ade's Big London Safari

Synopsis:
"What if Africa had colonised england? a witty and thought-provoking offering of alternative perception and dimension was the result. Called ayo and ade's Big London Safari, it charts the moment when ayo, the new Governor of London comes from Nigeria and is escorted on one of the safest' safari rides in the capital of Blankland by an influential business official, ade. Hoping to edify and impress his governor for the purpose of securing lucrative business deals, ade takes ayo, who as a child had always dreamt of seeing Blankland, aboard the London eye to show him the extent of his new governance. Naive in his ideals, ayo hopes to empower the natives' of this land with a bit more self-sufficiency, until an encounter in the capsule with a Blanklander renegade, Fred, a disobedient breed' of savage, refuses to be treated as a colourful' subservient when ayo attempts to take his picture for the album. This sparks a conflict of interest between ayo and ade after ade unexpectedly recognises Fred as his fugitive and fraudulent ex-office clerk and wants immediate recompense. the affect of this volatile exchange makes ayo see that his reforms will not be ideally realised if he is to maintain any sense of supremacy over this particular colony." Darko allin. CeN Magazine

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Flight 5065 @ London Eye     2005

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Host Universal

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Booty Call

Synopsis:
Black British theatre has found an appealingly quirky voice in Nigerian Mancunian playwright Segun Lee French, whose Booty Call is doing the regional rounds this autumn. You could call it a comedy of modem urban manners, except that manners are the last thing required of today's would-be "bad bwoys". the ruder the better - so learns the geeky teenage anti-hero, Jason, who, in a hybrid between videogame, fantasy and real-life, must advance through various levels to lose his virginity and become a "player". the writing summons the full horror of modern adolescence, with white kids now desperately copying their black peers, but it does so with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek, at least until the grim climax. Respect to director Steven Luckie and his cast, or should that be "crew"? If nothing else, the evening acts as an essential crash course in street manners.
Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph

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1st Produced:
-     2006

Organisations:
Big Creative Ideas

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Bro 9

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won 2 Manchester evening News theatre Awards, for Best Fringe Performance And Best Design.

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