About
Ray is an award-winning trans-disciplinary performance artist, writer, educator and coach. Creating unique, genre defying work through collaboration and residence to traditional form, Ray’s practice exists at boundaries of live art, activism and immersive experience. Examining race, queerness, climate justice and neurodiversity, Ray’s work holds space for those who face intersecting systemic barriers, celebrating and championing these identities.
Ray’s writing includes commissions for The Royal Court, Music Theatre Wales, Brighton Festival, and they were selected as members of the Royal Court Writer’s Group and the BBC Writer’s Room. Their work has also been published in collections such as Writing Queer Performance by Finnian Tweed and Women in Performance by Sarah Gorman.
Committed to sharing their knowledge and experience to empower others, Ray also maintains an ongoing practice in mentoring, coaching and teaching including at institutions such as Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Goldsmiths University, London Contemporary Dance School, University of Warwick and University of Roehampton. They have also spoken at events and panels around the UK sharing their expertise on topics such as anti-racism, accessibility and sustainability in the arts.
Ray’s critically acclaimed work has toured internationally and across the UK, their work has performed at venues including Sadlers Wells, Horizon Showcase at Edinburgh Festival, Southbank Centre for Unlimited festival, with international presentation at Venice Biennale, Push Festival (Vancouver) VIERNULVIER (Belgium), ImPuls Tanz (Vienna), Skopje Pride (Macedonia), Theatre L’Usine (Geneva), Boom Arts (Portland), Fundació Marso (Mexico City)