Anna-Maria Nabirye

Anna-Maria graduated from Mountview in 2006. Previous to this she trained at The Brit School for two years on the Acting Course. This introduction to the performing arts has rooted Anna-Maria with a strong diversity of skills in movement, physical theatre, ensemble and contemporary theatre schools of working. After this Anna-Maria completed a variety of short courses in Voice and Acting for Screen at City Lit (London) as well as workshops with Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Frantic Assembly and Theatre Melange.

Anna-Maria is a strong alto/mezzo singer, naturally skilled in blues, jazz and soul. She sang with the Irrepressibles in the Opera of Surveillance at the Arcola (2008) and also performed as the White Background in the ensemble piece Photo Me by Sacha Felix Theatre at Riverside Studios (2008).

A strong natural mover with skills in contact improvisation, samba and jazz dance, Anna-Maria performed in a contemporary dance film by Alex Rainford Roberts and Gail Sixsmith and has danced on several occasions with Mandinga Arts in carnivals and street processions around London.

Anna-Maria is highly skilled in developing new writing - this has led to her working on new writing projects with MA Writers at City University and Goldsmiths as well as with the Hall For Cornwall, Half Moon YPT and Pascal Theatre Company. She also writes and performs her own poetry.

Anna-Maria has toured nationally with Half Moon Young People's Theatre on two occasions. Firstly as an actor/puppeteer in Igloo Hullabaloo (Time Out Children's Play of the Year, 2007), then solely as an actor in Icicle Bicycle (2008s). Both plays were bilingual, in spoken English and British Sign Language. Anna-Maria performed in both English and BSL, picking up the language skills very quickly. This has led to her completing BSL level 1 and at present she is studying for her BSL Level 2 certificate.

Anna-Maria has a good grasp of the classics. For the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival 2007 she played the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet and the First Witch, Porter and Seyton in Macbeth and on 2008 he played Titania and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream. This was not the first time Anna-Maria play the role of Titania - she performed it a year earlier with Regenerator Theatre Company. Other classical roles include Abigail in Hall For Cornwall's Barabas - The Jew Of Malta (2008).

As for contemporary works, Anna-Maria spent three weeks in 2008 working with Daedalus Theatre Company and Camden People's Theatre on a piece called Hearts of Darkness. This was a partly a development project, devising an experimental piece of theatre in response to the history and repetition of genocide between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes of the Great Lake region. This was a very successful project and was commissioned for a three week run at the Camden People's Theatre under the revised title of Place At The Table.

In 2009 Anna-Maria worked with Quicksilver Theatre on Primary Voices (Arcola) and performed in The Vagina Monologues and A Memory, A Monologue and A Prayer (New Players Theatre).