Patrice Naiambana

Patrice Naiambana is an African performing artist from Sierra Leone, currently based in Birmingham. He founded Tribal Soul in 1991 to make visible stories from African Diaspora experiences, in response to simplistic representations of Africans in the West. He will be appearing this year as the lead actor in The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin and New Nigerians by Dipo Agbolouaje for The Arcola Theatre. Patrice’s Actor professional background includes work with The Royal National Theatre, most recently with the acclaimed Barbershop Chronicles and playing lead in Pinter’s The Caretaker for Bristol Old Vic. With the Royal Shake-speare Company, he played the title role in Kathryn Hunter’s Othello, and Warwick the Kingmaker in the Olivier Award-winning Histories Cycle Ensemble. He starred as General Mukata in the Channel 4 sitcom In Exile, and has provided voices for the award-winning BBC animation series Nina and The Neurons and Tinga Tinga Tales. His Edinburgh Fringe First Award-winning solo show The Man Who Committed Thought regularly tours internationally. His passion is performance for social transformation and playing for the non-exclusive audience. With his company Tribal Soul he hopes to utilise Diaspora Experience to encourage citizens to create and distribute stories in their own image. In this capacity he has worked world wide, in several countries.

Patrice Naiambana is part of the Be.Bop 2018 Team.