Can YOU bring it?
Bring your sickest lyrics
Bring your moves
Bring your creativity
Bring your reality
Breakin’ Convention invites you to
BRING THE DRAMA
Bring the Drama is a free weekly project for young people interested in learning how to create a hip hop theatre show.
This will involve scriptwriting, acting, rap and movement/dance. You will learn from experienced mentors and work together in creating your own story reflecting your experiences and ideas to reflect your truth.
This will be an amazing opportunity to grow as an artist and explore your career in theatre!
Led by Debris Stevenson and Steve Macaulay, participants will create a performance that will be performed at Stratford Youth Zone as part of Breakin’ Convention’s 20 year strong celebrations. The project is managed by Shay D.
Key Info
Sign up by 8 January 2024. You will be emailed if you are successful to secure your space on the project as it is limited capacity.
Age range: 14-21, from London, with an interest in hip hop and making theatre, limited to just 20 participants.
Times: Every Monday, 6-8pm
Dates: Monday 22 January - Monday 25 March 2024
Venue: Spotlight, Langdon Park
The Mentors
Steve Macaulay
Steve Macaulay is an actor, writer, director and artistic director of 2 Heavy Productions Theatre Company, a theatre group based in Reading with the ethos of nurturing young talent that has never tried theatre before.
Running theatre workshops, community theatre and professional productions, they have brought performances to local schools, theatres and venues, recently including Trim Palace, Blue/Orange and Little Sweet Thing.
Steve’s film roles include One by One and forthcoming movie Road Girl. His stage acting credits include Farside, Blue Orange, Kingston 14, Caucasian Chalk Circle, B is 4 Black, Jitney, The Windrush, Julius Caesar, The Playground and in Jonzi D Productions’ Markus The Sadist.
Debris Stevenson
A dyslexic writer, Grime poet, hybrid actor and pro-raver. Debris Stevenson’s work explores the intersectional, unexpected, and unjust – often whilst making her audiences dance, question, and laugh.
Debris had her acting screen debut in MEDUSA DELUXE at Locarno Film Festival in 2022, and recently played the role of the Narrator in the sell-out concert of TREASON THE MUSICAL at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
With the community interest company Debris founded and artistically directed for 6 years, The Mouthy Poets, Debris raised over £300,000 to develop young talent. She has worked in over 30 countries, designed foundation performance poetry modules at Nottingham University, and had her debut poetry pamphlet, Pigeon Party, published by Flipped Eye. Debris’ debut show, POET IN DA CORNER, premiered at The Royal Court in 2018, receiving 4-5 stars and seeing Debris nominated for an Emerging Talent of The Year Award (Evening Standard Theatre Awards). POET IN DA CORNER toured the UK in early 2020 alongside the release of the album (Accidental Records) and a free school’s educational pack.