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Táiyé is a London-based interdisciplinary artist and theatre-maker whose work spans writing, directing, dramaturgy, producing, and facilitation. Across theatre, literature, and arts and heritage, Táiyé opens portals for communities to engage with afro-futurity, intimacy, and care. Their practice is unified by a commitment to centring historically overlooked communities, working intuitively with the elasticity of language and art to interrogate the world through their lived experience.

As a director, Táiyé has worked with leading institutions in the UK and internationally, including the Almeida Theatre, Bush Theatre, Riksteatern (Sweden), Talawa Theatre Company, and The Yard Theatre. Notable credits include the Swedish adaptation of Shifters (Bush Theatre/Riksteatern, 2026), 1536 at the Almeida (dir. Lyndsey Turner), and here, here, here (dir. Katie Greenall) at Stratford East. As a writer, they have also brought their own written work to life with Theatre 503, The Poetry Society, the Almeida's Anthem Writers programme, and Talawa Theatre Company's TYPT 21/22 programme as well as writing reviews and criticism for The British Blacklist and The Rendition.

Táiyé has a strong track record of facilitating the early development of bold new plays, producing R&D workshops for Samuel Takes A Break... by Rhianna Ilube (shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Multiple Casualty Incident by Sami Ibrahim (shortlisted for the George Devine Award) and Black Pride by Troy Hunter. This commitment to nurturing work from its earliest stages extends into their dramaturgy practice, with ongoing sessions for DINKS by Abi Falase and R&D dramaturgy for Pretty Baby Child by Simon Harris…

Driven by a belief in the transformative and connective nature of storytelling, Táiyé makes space for voices that are too often sidelined and builds the stages, pages, and rooms where they can truly be centred.