Elisha Efua Bartels

#bocas2025 #alwayscominghome

Biography

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 her return to T&T, she has been published, written radio plays for BBC Radio4 & BBC Radio3 and continues to teach, direct and perform with 3canal, griot productions, and many other reputable groups.

She is 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.

Years Attended

2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Carifesta Participant, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant

Elisha Efua Bartels

Author, Judge, Performer
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Elisha Efua Bartels
2025
Always Coming Home: Celebrating 15 years of the OCM Bocas Prize
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Music, Performance, Poetry Event
Event Date: May 2, 2025 @ 7:00 pm
Big Black Box
2023
Tall Tales
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Performance, Poetry Event
Event Date: April 29, 2023 @ 12:00 pm
Abercromby Street Arcade
2023
Sons of the Soil: Selvon Meets Stalin
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Performance Event
Event Date: April 28, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Big Black Box
2022
FCNPS: Workshop 2 - Writing and Performance
Poetry Slam Event
Event Date: July 29, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
The Writers Centre
2022
Writing and Performance with Arielle John & elisha efua bartels
Poetry Slam, Workshops Event
Event Date: June 9, 2022 @ 5:30 pm
Online - Zoom