About

Ray is an award-winning transdisciplinary performance artist, writer, educator and coach. Creating unique, genre-defying work through collaboration and resistance to traditional form, Ray’s practice exists at the 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 recent work includes the critically acclaimed OUT, which toured internationally to Vancouver, Toronto and Belgium following a UK tour culminating at Sadler’s Wells, and BODIES, an immersive installation exploring human relationships with water, discovery and rest. They are currently working on Siblings of the Yam, a creative step into moving image and film made in collaboration with Afro-Mexican creative Tamara Ibarra. Supported by an Unlimited International Partner Award, the piece will investigate the lasting impacts of colonialism on Black communities’ relationships to the land. Inspired by bell hooks, the work uses an Afrofuturist lens to explore ancestral connections to nature, generational knowledge and grief.

Committed to sharing their experience and knowledge to empower others, Ray maintains an ongoing practice in mentoring, coaching and teaching at institutions including 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 including anti-racism, accessibility and sustainability in the arts.

Ray’s writing includes commissions for The Royal Court, Music Theatre Wales and Brighton Festival. They were selected as members of the Royal Court Writer’s Group and the BBC Writer’s Room, and their work has been published in collections such as Writing Queer Performance by Finnian Tweed and Women in Performance by Sarah Gorman.