Yvonne “Selina!†Weekes was born in London to Montserratian parents. A trained/graduate teacher of drama, as well as an actress, performance artist, director and writer, she has over the last twenty-five years combined all of her skills to provide her own unique work as an artiste. Her writing has been published by Sheba Feminist Publishers, numerous anthologies (Barbados) and more recently Peepaltree Press (UK) who published her first full length work – a novella/memoir entitled Volcano for which she won the prestigious Frank Collymore Literary Arts Award in Barbados.Yvonne began her study of drama/Theatre at Stockwell College of Education, Middlesex University and Central School of Speech and Drama. She has also done radio and television commercials, television and is the Master of Ceremonies for numerous dance and musical recitals. She has appeared on Carifesta V and Carifesta VI in Trinidad.In addition, she has established herself as an accomplished performance poet and Theatre Director. Over the last decade she has played an interesting array of diverse roles with some of the Caribbean’s leading directors including Thom Cross, Patrick Foster, Henk Tjon, David Edgecombe and the late Earl Warner.Her work as educator and artiste challenges the silence of womanhood and embraces her own concerns of being Black/British and living in Xile and struggling to be Christian and single mother. She voices the silent and taboo concerns of what it is to be mother, sister and friend.
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