Anna-Maria Nabirye is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, visual arts, social practice, theatre, film, TV and fashion. Anna-Maria was recently commissioned by Cements Fields for the Whitstable Biennale 2022, where she presented audio work: The Funnest Room In The House/Afterword and is currently presenting a full exhibition and 3 channel film of Up In Arms, commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion, produced by Arts Admin , co-created with USA based artist Annie Saunders until May 21st 2023. 

In 2020 Nabirye co-founded Afri-Co-Lab, a creative community dreaming space in St Leonards-on-Sea, that showcases and supports the work of local artists with an emphasise on Black & POC artists. Afri-Co-Lab emerged from AfroRetro their ethical upcycling and fashion brand, between both entities they have had partnership projects with Black Cultural Archives, Royal Court, V&A, Southbank Centre, Brighton Museum, Home Live Art, De La Warr Pavilion and awarded Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects Africa residency. 

As an artist, Nabirye has ongoing collaborations with Jess Mabel Jones - Motherhoody (The Albany Theatre/ King's College London), Annie Saunders - Up In Arms (De La Warr Pavilion, Arts Admin/NAE/MANA Contemporary/The Showroom/Delfina Foundation/no.w.here) and duo Noorafshan Mirza and Brad Butler (London Film Festival/Film & Video Umbrella/Hayward/ICA).

She has devised and performed work with Improbable and Metis Theatre and taken her own work to the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe. She is currently creating a new work The Story of Black Joy with Imogen Knight.

As an actor she has worked extensively in theatre including work at The Gate, The National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Almeida, Deafinitely Theatre, The Faction, GridIron, Halfmoon and in television and film with BBC1, BBC2 & Film4.

Anna-Maria is a passionate educator and has directed, taught and created programmes for London Philharmonic Orchestra, LAMDA, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, YALE School of Drama, National Theatre Institute, Carnegie Mellon - USA.

Portrait by Peter Warrick