Elisha Efua Bartels
Trinidadian Writer / Performer / Director
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.
At the Full and Change of the Moon
A big night of words and music at the Big Black Box, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the landmark novel by Dionne Brand.A novel that ranges over centuries and continents, full of unforgettable voices and stories, At the Full and Change of the Moon is the definition of a classic — and one ripe for rediscovery by today’s readers. Author Dionne Brand reads from her fiction masterpiece, with a dramatised performance directed by elisha efua bartels and a surprise musical guest. Get ready for revolutionary ideas and words!
A big night of words and music at the Big Black Box, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the landmark novel by Dionne Brand.
A novel that ranges over centuries and continents, full of unforgettable voices and stories, At the Full and Change of the Moon is the definition of a classic — and one ripe for rediscovery by today’s readers. Author Dionne Brand reads from her fiction masterpiece, with a dramatised performance directed by elisha efua bartels and a surprise musical guest. Get ready for revolutionary ideas and words!