D'bi. Young Anitafrika

D'bi. Young Anitafrika

D’bi.young is a playwright-performer, director-dramaturge and activist-educator, who creates, embodies and teaches decolonial performance praxis. Culminating their PhD in Black womyn’s theatre at London South Bank University (LSBU), their research centres on the epistemological, ontological, cosmological, ethical, aesthetic and somatic emancipation of the oppressed self, through theatre making. d’bi.young developed the Anitafrika Method—a nurturant Black-queer-feminist pedagogy of transformation—offering arts practitioners globally, an intersectional framework of knowing, doing and being. A widely anthologised Siminovitch Playwright Prize finalist, three-time Dora award winner, and founding Artistic Director of Watah Theatre and Spolrusie Press, d’bi.young has authored twelve plays, seven albums, and four poetry collections. Currently they are lead faculty at Soulpepper and Obsidian's theatre training programs and a lecturer in theatre at the University of Victoria BC.