Who We Are
Julene Robinson is multiple award nominated & winning theatre maker, multidisciplinary performance artist and scientist and wellness expert based in the UK. Robinson completed an undergraduate degree in Pure and Environmental Chemistry at the University of the West Indies. During Robinson’s academic career she harnessed the transformative power of art and bear reverence to the responsibility that comes with practicing it. She then completed a Masters in Theatre at Rose Bruford College for Theatre and Performance. Her work focuses on identity, gender, heritage, science and mythmaking. She interrogates through research and filters these digestions through the body in the medium of theatre and live arts.
Her work is passionate, rigorous, political work, full of joy, but with a clear focus on those excluded by society at large, and how the politics of identity define our bodies, lives and environments.
Robinson’s most recent work the Night Woman is currently a part of the Barbican Centre Open Lab where in response to the current pandemic is exploring how technology intersects with her work. She has been named an artist to watch in 2021 by the Barbican Centre. Her work has been shown at the Attenborough Arts Centre (UK), The Philip Sherlock Centre (Jamaica), Teatre Garagem (Portugal), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland).
Robinson also work as a mentor, creative coach, life and wellness coach for other artist and creatives. You can follow Robinson on twitter @julenerobinson.