Originally from Brighton, Elle has lived in London for the last 12
years. After dabbling in various poetry nights across the UK, she won the
Genesis Slam in 2019 and is going ahead to the Hammer and Tongue National
Finals at The Royal Albert Hall that was slated to take place last year. In
2019 she also performed as Boiler House London’s International Women’s Day
Poet. After winning the Imperial College Nature Slam in 2020 with her piece FOR FREDDY, she was then the International Women’s Day poet for Imperial College
London in their 2021 celebrations, running a bespoke workshop for doctors,
mathematicians and scientists.
Her debut play HoneyBEE, a spoken word solo show, received 5 star reviews, sold out at the
Brighton fringe and VAULT Festival, and won both the Three Weeks Editor’s Award
and Best Newcomer from The Scotsman in Edinburgh. She wrote
and recorded an original piece of poetry for 'Experimental Words' collaborating
with Scientist Sam Gallivan launching in June 2021, and also recently recorded
her second spoken word solo show MEAT, collaborating with musicians and sound designers Porscha Present and
Emer Dineen. The audio recording will be released as part of Flugelman
Productions’ 6-part podcast series of plays Make Me in Summer 2021.
Elle has had several pieces published by
Dear Damsels, and was last year longlisted for the Pentabus
Writer-in-Residence. She has been featured on Tyrone Lewis’ Spoken Word channel Process Productions and regularly records
with MuddyFeet poetry. Her favourite poets
producing the works most dog-eared and well loved on her bookshelf are Ocean
Vuong, Polarbear, Cecilia Knapp, Caleb Femi, Kae Tempest, and Vanessa Kissule.
She
facilitates poetry and
performance, direct, and mentors at several establishments in London including charity and community theatre YATI (Young Actors Theatre
Islington), East 15 Acting School, and for Mountview Drama school has been
commissioned to write various new pieces of Spoken Word for Generation X, an outreach project
designed to engage with groups of teenagers in the Peckham Community entitled My Generation.
Maladaptive is Elle's first collection of
Poetry.