Kat François

The first person to win a televised poetry slam in the UK, a year later she won the World Slam Championships.

Kat has worked with young people for many years, as a youth worker, PHSE Facilitator, also teaching dance, drama, creative writing, poetry and performance skills and school slams. She is an established playwright and director of youth theatre, devising and directing plays for theatres including Theatre Royal Stratford East, Roundhouse Camden, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. She provides youth and adult coaching in creative writing and performance, as well as Life Coaching through the creative process.

As a playwright, Kat has written and performed two internationally staged solo plays, and two comedy shows.

Raising Lazarus, Kat’s play dealing with the experiences of Caribbean soldiers in World War One, continues to tour globally to critical acclaim, and formed part of the WW1 centenary and featured at Imperial War Museum.