Kaleya Baxe is a British born German Angolan writer, director and facilitator whose work pushes the boundaries of storytelling in creative and collaborative environments. She trained as a facilitator on the Applied Theatre course at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and has worked on outreach projects at the National Theatre, Young Vic, and Kiln. As a director and writer, she consistently offers alternative perspectives to political conversations around love, race and community.
As a multi-disciplinary artist she is interested in where research, art, and real life intersect, as well as writing as a form of archiving. Her current work includes her first writing commission The Tree Who Found Her Roots, dir. Rebekah Murrel (Jouvert, Harold Pinter) prod. by Uproot Productions, a Seed Commission for NDONGO, a new musical in collaboration with her father, Afro-latin dancer and choreographer Garcia Baxe (Camden People’s Theatre), and transitioning into the world of film as a writer and director. Her latest project waterlilies is part-scripted part-devised, and explores love as a political contradiction to capitalism with Contemporary Performance Practice students at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her play the light that blinds was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2023, and she is currently working on a new piece of writing as part of the Bush Theatre Emerging Writers Group.