d'bi Young. Courtesy Wired.
d'bi young is a Jamaican-Canadian dub poet, monodramatist, and educator, as well as a Dora-winning actor and playwright.
Life[]
Raised Debbie Young in Jamaica, she moved to Canada in 1993.
As an actor, she has appeared in Trey Anthony's da kink in my hair, which garnered her a Dora nomination for best actress, and the television sitcom Lord Have Mercy!.[1] She won outstanding new play and outstanding performance by a female in a principal role in a play in the 2006 Dora Mavor Moore Awards for her play blood.claat: one womban story.[2]
In 2007 she facilitated a summer dub theatre program for youth in Toronto, which led her to founding and artistic directing anitafrika dub theatre.[3]
Young is curator of the Badilisha Poetry X-Change project created by the Africa Centre and artistic director of YEMOYA, an international artist-residency based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Writing[]
Young identifies as a 'biomythicist,' borrowing the term 'biomyth' from the late audre lorde.
Recognition[]
Awards[]
- artstarts emerging artist award 2002
- nourbese philip award 2002
- harold theatre award 2005
- 2 dora awards - outstanding new play, outstanding female lead - bloodclaat 2006
- naacp best cast ensemble award - da kink in my hair 2007
- rbc toronto arts council emerging artist award 2007
- km hunter theatre award 2010
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- art on black. Toronto: Women's Press, 2006.
- blood.claat (play) 2006
- rivers – and other blackness – between us. Toronto: Womens Press, 2007.
Plays[]
- blood.claat = sangre (bilingual; Spanish translation by Queen Nzinga Maxwell Edwards). Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2006.
- sankofa. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2012.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
Plays[]
- Selphine Loathing 2001
- yagayah: two.womben.black.griots 2001
- blood(claat): one oomaan story 2005 (part 1 of sankofa trilogy)
- androgyne 2006
- benu 2009 (part 2 of sankofa trilogy)
- word! sound! powah 2010 (part 3 of sankofa trilogy)
- she 2010
Audio / video[]
D'bi Young Anitafrika - Healing Love (Official)
Canadian Poet of Honour d'bi.young anitafrika Performs "River"
Discography[]
- when the love is not enough (CD). Toronto: Spirits of Three, 2000.
- debbie young - xperimentin dub with dub trinity reggae band 2001
- debbie young - xperimentin dub in havana Cuba. Toronto: produced by r.r.r. & d'bi young, 2002.
- d'bi.young - dubbin.revolushun: blood demo. Toronto: d'bi young, 2003.
- d'bi.young - animal farm single 2005
- d'bi.young - when sisters speak live 2007
- d'bi.young - wombanifesto 2010
Compilations[]
D'bi.young anitafrika We women are warriors
- wordlife: tales of the underground griots 1998
- la vache enragee 1998
- ribsauce: a CD anthology of words by women 1999
- lost tribes of the sun: renewal 2003
- cbc national poetry slam compilation 2004
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Daley, True. "Debbie Young: Dub-poet, actor, and playwright". Phem Phat. http://www.phemphat.com/dyoung.html. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
- ↑ "Past Winners". Dora Awards. Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts. http://www.tapa.ca/doras/past_winners. Retrieved 2009-01-16.
- ↑ Siad, Simona (2007-09-20). "Stories from our 'hoods". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/article/258297
- ↑ Search results au:d'bi young, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 20, 2015.
External links[]
- Audio / video
- Books
- d'bi young at Amazon.ca
- About
- d'bi young anitafrica at INKtalks
- "Performance artist d'bi Young is the blueprint for a green 'supah shero' at Wired
- d'bi.young Official website
- D'bi Young at the Internet Movie Database
- review of blood.claat at The Woyingi Blog
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