Glenda-Rose Layne
Glenda-Rose Layne is a professional storyteller and has developed a programme to interpret art through dance and poetry. In 2006 she was a Gold Medalist in the Acting World Championship of the Performing Arts, Hollywood, California and again in 2007 she won two Gold Medals, one Bronze and one industry award for Acting & Spokesmodel […]
Rosamond S. King
Critical and creative writer and performer Rosamond S. King’s book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination was named “Best Book” by the Caribbean Studies Association. Her poetry publications include the forthcoming All the Rage and the Lambda Award-winning Rock | Salt | Stone. King’s essays have appeared in LitHub, the Ms. blog, Sargasso, The Progressive, The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, and elsewhere. She has performed at biennales, festivals, bookstores, and other venues around the […]
Sufia Giza
Ms. Giza is an Author, Spoken Word/Recording Artist, Historian Filmmaker and Certified Yoga Instructor. She did Performance Poetry in Los Angeles, CA from the 1990’s through 2000’s, and is Co-Founder of the Southern California based Riverside Renaissance Writers Group. Sufia is currently will soon release her 2nd Dub-Poetry cd, Echoes of FREEdom. Poet and Historian, […]
R. S. A. Garcia
R.S.A. is a writer of speculative fiction and a Sturgeon, Nebula, Locus and Ignyte Award finalist. Her Amazon Bestselling science fiction mystery, Lex Talionis, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and the Silver Medal for Best Scifi/Fantasy/Horror Ebook from the Independent Publishers Awards (2015). She has published short fiction in venues such as Clarkesworld Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Escape […]
Gustavo Barrera Calderón
Gustavo Barrera Calderón, from Chile, is the author of six poetry collections. His work has been anthologized and appeared in international publications. He is also a storyteller and has participated in several public exhibitions that integrate music, poetry and performance. Participation supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Chile and Norton Lilly.
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné is a Trinidadian poet and visual artist. Her accolades include the 2012 Small Axe Literary Competition, the 2015 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize and Wasafiri New Writing Prize, and the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Poetry for her debut collection Doe Songs. Her poetry is featured in the bilingual anthology […]
Marina Salandy-Brown
Marina Salandy-Brown, Bocas Lit Fest founder and President, is a T&T Newsday columnist. Her writing has appeared in international journals and magazines and the New Daughters of Africa anthology (2019).
Muhammad Muwakil
Muhammad Muwakil is a Trinidadian poet and musician. He is a founding member of the band Freetown Collective.
Basil Reid
Dr. Basil Reid is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, Department of History, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. He is the author of Myths and Realities of Caribbean History, editor of Caribbean Heritage and Archaeology and Geoinformatics: Case Studies from the Caribbean and co-editor of Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology. Between July 1, 2013 and January […]
Geoffrey MacLean
Geoffrey MacLean is a conservationist and art historian; a Member of Citizens for Conservation and a Past President of the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects.
Reanna Edwards Paul
Reanna Edwards Paul has been onstage in productions by Must come See Productions and Iere Theatre Productions and on the production team of recent Naparima Girls’ High School operatic productions. Reanna is a recent graduate Masters in Music Education from the University of Toronto and a Music teacher at Naparima Girls’ High School. She is […]
Kyle Noel
Kyle Noel is a pannist, musician, innovator and an accomplished guitarist and percussionist. He has performed with legendaries such as Len ‘Boogsie’ Sharpe, Jason Baptiste and Earl Rodney. He is currently employed as a music instructor at the Multicultural Music Program Unit in the Ministry of Education and is Manager of Soul Faculty Productions Music […]
Omare Asson
Omare Asson is an actor and spoken word artiste. He has performed in several productions with Presentation College, La Dramatique Expressions School of Theatre, Oratory Foundation, Naparima Girls’ High School, Iere Theatre Productions and at the Caribbean Schools’ Drama Festival in Barbados. Omare is currently pursuing a BA in Theatre Arts at the UWI.
Brian Boyce
Brian Boyce is 25 years of age and is a recent B.A. Mass Communications graduate. He is an executive member of Iere Theatre Productions Limited with responsibility for social media promotions. He is a favourite lead, and his most recent theatre performances include We Stories, Sundar and Ten To One.
Rebekah Daniel
Rebekah Daniel is eighteen years old and currently a student at COSTAATT studying psychology. She is a proud member of Iere Theatre Production Limited having performed in most of their dramatic productions. Her most recent performance was in We Stories.
Alette Liz Williams
Alette Liz Williams is the Public Relations Officer for Iere Theatre Productions Limited, Assistant Secretary for the National Dance Association of Trinidad and Tobago, a singer, actress and Public Relations Consultant. She has an Associates Degree in Public Relations and Journalism and recently attained a Bachelors in Mass Communications.
Aryana Mohammed
Aryana Mohammed started acting during high school in a Drama Club production of Grease where she developed a passion for performing. She graduated in 2014 with a B.F.A in Performing Arts (Acting) and has been cast in a number of theatre productions, most recently We Stories. She has also acted in the film Moko Jumbie.
Iezora Edwards
Iezora Edwards is a researcher, writer, director and educator. She is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the UWI, St Augustine and an executive member of the Iere Theatre Productions Limited. She is currently a Curriculum Officer, Visual & Performing Arts (Drama/Theatre Arts), at the Ministry of Education. The play Searching, featured in the 2015 […]
Tracy Assing
Tracy Assing is a writer, editor and filmmaker. Her 2010 film The Amerindians explored Assing’s own identity, the indigenous history of the islands and the political structure of the Santa Rosa Carib Community (now the First People’s Community).
Sabrina Ramnanan
Sabrina Ramnanan was born in Toronto to Trinidadian parents. Her debut novel Nothing Like Love (2015) was released to rave reviews and has hit bestseller lists in Canada. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education Creative Writing Program and the recipient of the 2012 Marina Nemat award. Her work has […]
Satnarine Balkaransingh
Satnarine Balkaransingh, PhD, is an economist, playwright, and Kathak Classical dancer and choreographer with the Nrityanjali Theatre. His new book Kunuwaton celebrates the First Peoples’ influences in Trinidad and Tobago’s cuisine.
Arielle John
Determined to celebrate the West Indian now, while designing our shared survival of the future, Arielle John approaches poetry and theatre performance as medicine for Atlantic peoples, their resilient cultures, and the land (and sea) they occupy. The millennial’s devotion to community-building work centres on transformative justice, re-indigenized living and the healing arts as she […]
Brendon O’Brien
Brendon O’Brien is an activist, writer, director and performer who’s been doing Spoken Word for the past 7 years. Brendon was the 2014 Verses Bocas Poetry Slam 2nd Place winner, and one of the featured poets of Trinidad and Tobago Radio Network’s ‘Free Speech Project’ from 2012-2014. He is the Artistic Director of the.art.IS Performing […]
Ariana Herbert
Ariana Herbert is a spoken word poet and writer. She believes in the magic of storytelling and upholds the exploration of narratives concerning empathy, women and children. Ariana regularly enjoys no less than three cups of tea a day, daily doses of laughter and dancing, and is on a mission to be kind.
Judy Raymond
Judy Raymond, writer, journalist and editor, is a former editor in chief of the T&T Newsday and Trinidad Guardian. Her latest book is the biography Beryl McBurnie (UWI Press, 2018). Her short story “The Old Monsters” was shortlisted for the 2023 Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean.
Angelo Bissessarsingh
Angelo Bissessarsingh is a historian from Siparia, Trinidad. He is the founder of the Virtual Museum of Trinidad and Tobago heritage resource, and writes a column titled “Back in Time” for the Trinidad Guardian. His new book is A Walk Back in Times: Snapshots of the History of Trinidad and Tobago.
Darin Gibson
Darin Gibson is a freelance writer and visual artist. He is currently completing an MFA in Creative Writing.
Che Rodriguez
Che Rodriguez is an accomplished Caribbean Producer/Director/Actor with a forty year span of performance, experience and training in mass media and theatre production. His body of work encompasses roles he created for film and stage and some twenty-one (21) films/documentaries that he wrote, produced and directed for national, regional and international audiences.
Brandon O’Brien
Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, and teaching artist from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing, the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and the 2020 Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry, and is published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange […]
Idrees Saleem
Idrees Saleem is the VERSES Bocas Poetry Slam 2014 champion and also a founding member of DMAD Company, a drama company geared toward stimulating social change.