Patrice Naiambana

Patrice Naiambana

Patrice Naiambana
  • BADA Programmes: BBTAP (Diasporic Performance in a British Context)

Patrice Naiambana is an actor and workshop facilitator who has worked all over the world to tell stories through a post-colonial diaspora lens. He was apprenticed as a theatre artist in Sierra Leone with Tabule Tiata and Gbakanda Tiata in Chapeltown, Leeds. As an animateur and African performing artist he has been facilitating tribalsoul since 1991 – a laboratory for African Diaspora performance aesthetics exploration and critical dialogue. He has received several awards for his work, including: Olivier Award for Best Ensemble The Histories, The Royal Shakespeare Company 2006-9 (Actor) and Edinburgh Fringe First Award, The Man Who Committed Thought 1999 (Writer-Actor, with Ian Leonard). Screen roles this year include: Death in Paradise, Black Ops, Criminal Record and Damsel.