Femi Keeling
Femi Keeling is a British Caribbean playwright born in London, and living in Surrey. Named by Speaking Volumes as one the ‘40 Stars of Black British Literature’, her solo theatre show, How to Die of a Broken Heart, toured the UK in 2017. Femi’s play, I Am Not There, had a rehearsed reading at the 2017 Talawa Firsts Festival and her short plays have been staged at various theatres including Soho Theatre and Theatre 503. Commissioned by Cardboard Citizens, her forum theatre piece Rising toured prisons and hostels and enjoyed a special performance at City Hall in 2018. She is an alumna of the BBC Writers Room London Voices programme and the Orange Tree Theatre Writers Collective. Two of her monologues feature in the collection Hear Me Now: Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour published by Oberon in 2018.