malakaï sargeant

malakaï is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and producer from pre-gentrified northeast London. Led by curiosity and care, malakaï works across theatre, festivals, literature, audio and live events– creating and interrogating through an unapologetically Afroqueer lens. Their work is often non-linear, employing unconventional forms that disrupts notions of time and space; orbiting around ideas of Black interiority, hood surrealism and carceral geographies.

malakaï’s directing credits include: The Master’s House (Talawa/BBC Radio 4/BBC Sounds), The Costumed Gallery (UAL/National Gallery), Still Here? (Unicorn Theatre), Yummy (Theatre Royal Stratford East), We Are Here to Make Change (Royal Court), …cake (Theatre Peckham), Do Nitties Live Forever? (Battersea Arts Centre), Over To You (Tamasha/Rich Mix), Void (The S+K Project/Battersea Arts Centre), I Am Not A _____, (Immediate Theatre/Chat’s Palace), Platform Tottenham (The S+K Project/Royal Court Theatre/Bernie Grant Arts Centre).

As associate/assistant director: Hyde and Seek directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu (Guildhall School of Music & Drama), Foxes directed by James Hillier (Defibrillator Theatre/Theatre503), Calm directed by Stella Odunlami (Hackney Empire), Decolonising History directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike (Tamasha/SOAS).