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Titilola Dawudu
Trustee
Titilola is a Nigerian-born British storyteller and producer.
Titilola’s work spans arts and culture, charity, and youth sectors in which she enables Black people, specifically Black women, and people from the global majority to thrive and show up as themselves. She is a multi-hyphenate creative – writer, producer, and anti-racism and organisational development consultant. She is part of the Black Womxn in Theatre team behind the iconic #WeAreVisible photoshoot of over 250 Black women and nonbinary people at the Globe Theatre in July 2019. During the pandemic, Black Womxn in Theatre partnered with Eclipse Theatre and Bush Theatre in creating the #AllOfUs campaign and #HearToStay a 4-week redundancy recovery care programme. This saw 50 Black, Asian, and ethnically diverse people who were made redundant or were at risk of, coming together and receiving financial, mentoring, and job support.
Titilola co-created and edited Hear Me Now Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour with Tamasha, published by Oberon Books. Hear Me Now Vol.2 is currently in development and will be published in August 2022. For this, she worked with 10 theatres, 100 actors, and 50 writers across the year. Hear Me Now has become a series and in February 2020, she curated and produced a one-week festival, taking 16 monologues from the Hear Me Now book and creating a platform where stories about Black and South Asian women were not centred around trauma. LoveSexIdentityAmbition at Theatre503 saw an all-Black and South Asian cast and crew open up conversations and provocations about the stories that are on the theatre stages for Black and Global Majority women.
Titilola is an associate Writer for Beyond Face Theatre Company and has written for Theatre Royal Arojah in Abuja, Nigeria, Theatre Peckham, Ovalhouse, and Soho Theatre. She is a published writer and most recently her essay Let the Pendulum Swing about her Black identity and growing up within a white foster family was featured in The Working Class Anthology Series edited by Sophia Amina.