Titilola Dawudu

Role:
Artistic Director, High Tide | Beyond Face Non-Executive Director
Pronouns:
she/her

Titilola is a Nigerian-born British storyteller and producer. Her work spans across arts and cultural, charity and youth sectors in which she enables Black people, specifically Black women, and people from the global majority to thrive and show up as themselves. She is a multi-hyphenate creative - writer, producer and anti-racism and organisational development consultant. She is Chair of trustees for Theatre Centre and on the advisory boards for Beyond Face Theatre and Creative Leamington. Titilola is part of the Black Womxn in Theatre team behind the iconic #WeAreVisible photoshoot of over 250 Black womxn at the Globe Theatre in July 2019. During the pandemic, Black Womxn in Theatre partnered with Eclipse Theatre and Bush Theatre in creating #AllOfUs campaign and #HearToStay a 4-week redundancy recovery care programme. This saw 50 Black, Asian and ethnically diverse people who were made redundant or were at risk of, come together and receive financial, mentoring and job support. Titilola co-created and edited Hear Me Now Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour with Tamasha, published by Oberon Books. Hear Me Now Vol.2 is currently in development and will be published in Spring 2022. 

A woman with braids and large hold hoops smiles softly at the camera