Dr. d’bi.young anitafrika is an internationally celebrated dub poet, biomythicist, theatre-maker, and liberatory pedagogue whose work spans performance, scholarship, and arts leadership across four continents. Laureate of the 2026 Mayor’s Celebration of Cultural Life Award, the 2025 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize, and the 2023 Siminovitch Playwright Finalist Prize, they continue to shape contemporary theatre and performance training through the Anitafrika Dub Praxis.
Dr. anitafrika has authored twelve plays, released seven dub poetry albums, and published four poetry collections. A visionary practitioner-scholar, Dr. anitafrika has lectured at Addis Ababa University, London South Bank University, Stanislavski Theatre School in Poland, and the Sandberg Institute in the Netherlands. Their PhD theorises Black womyn’s theatre-making in North Turtle Island.
Founding Artistic Director of the Black Theatre School and Principal Researcher of the Black Womyn in Theatre Archive, Dr. anitafrika is also co-editor of Free To Be More: Creative Activism in the Era of Black Lives Matter. They are currently a Visiting Scholar at EMCVPA in Jamaica.
