Tarik Elmoutawakil is an artist, community organiser, programmer and creative producer as well as Founder and Co-Artistic Director at Marlborough Productions in Brighton, the UK’s only performing arts organisation dedicated to intersectional queer arts.
He is the lead artist on ‘Brownton Abbey’, an evolving Afro-Futures Performance Party that centres disabled QTBIPoC (queer, trans and intersex, Black and indigenous People of Colour), which in 2019 was awarded a main commission by Unlimited tour nationally and internationally. Brownton Abbey reclaims and reinterprets QTBIPoC spirituality and ritual, channelling it into an out-of-this-world, accessible party, led by alien god avatars. To date Brownton Abbey has been presented at Southbank Centre, Brighton Festival, Take Me Somewhere (Glasgow) and Cripping the Stage (Canada).
Tarik is plugged into a network of disabled QTBIPoC artivists across the globe, contributing to an ongoing movement to reshape access and leadership. A spirited public speaker, Tarik uses his joyous brand of activism wherever he can to positively transform the lived experiences of marginalised QTBIPoC.
