Elisha Efua Bartels

elisha efua bartels is a writer, performer, teacher, director and stage-manager, and a founding member of Metamorphosis Dance Company. She spent time in Washington D.C. acquiring her degree in the Performing Arts, performing and stage-managing with companies from Bowen Macaulay Dance to the Washington Shakespeare Company and Folger Shakespeare Library, and freelancing as an associate producer/writer for The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU, 88.5fm. Since returning to Trinidad+Tobago she’s performed in Jamaica, Barbados and Costa Rica as well as at home, been published in PREE: Caribbean. Writing., Akashic’s Trinidad Noir and their online Mondays Are Murder, hosted Writing a New Caribbean for BBC Radio4, had a radio play, Water More Than Flour, commissioned by BBC Radio3 and a stage-adaptation of Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey commissioned by the BocasLitFest, co-hosts the Wajang Diskotheque podcast, and continues writing, teaching, directing and performing with 3canal, griot productions, continuum dance project, the Astor Johnson Repertory Dance Theatre and Lilliput Theatre, strongly committed to raising the standard and the profile of the arts in sweet T+T, empowering we the people by showing Trinbagonians we can be, and are, the subjects and authors of our own stories.