Selina Thompson

Selina Thompson is an artist and performer based in Leeds. Her work is playful, participatory and intimate, focused on the politics of identity, and how this defines our bodies, lives and environments. She has made work for pubs, cafes, hairdressers, toilets, and sometimes even galleries and theatres, including Spill Festival of Performance, The National Theatre Studio, The Birmingham REP, East Street Arts and the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Selina’s critically acclimaed show ‘salt.’ won The Stage Edinburgh Award, The Total Theatre Award for Experimentation, Innovation and Playing with Form and The Filipa Brangaca Award for Best Female Solo Performance. ‘salt.’ was adapted for BBC Four in 2021. She leads the interdisciplinary Selina Thompson Limited (STLtd) company which has been making works since 2012 that has toured the UK and the world.