2pm Saturday 22nd February 2025
Bowett Room, Queens' College

The Young Creatives Panel is an opportunity to hear from creatives who entered the industry during or after the COVID-19 Pandemic; how they found their communities and navigated opportunities in a landscape extremely different to the one that they were educated to expect, how they build their lives and remain creatively fulfilled in this time of arts and culture austerity.

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Our Speakers are listed below:
Elisabeth Gunawan 吳金蘭 is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning writer and performer. As founder of the artistic collective Saksi Bisou, her work seeks to decolonise the imagination, to empower people and create spaces of belonging. She is currently associate artist at ArtsAdmin (Lab Residency) and with Theatre Ad Infinitum, as well as a writer in Hampstead Theatre’s INSPIRE 2024 cohort. Her work has been supported by Battersea Arts Centre, New Diorama, Barbican Centre, Royal Court and The Pleasance, among others.

Ben Wangenye is a Kenyan-British filmmaker with a solid foundation in big-budget studio productions, having honed his skills as an assistant to creative producers on major feature films. Now developing his own slate of projects, Ben focuses on stories that explore the rich, complex lives of people in the African Diaspora as they navigate love, life, and work across Kenya, the UK, and the USA.

Rachel Yu has had extensive experience in arts council programming and script-editing in both Hong Kong and the UK. A graduate of the highly competitive Channel 4 Production Training Scheme, she is a passionate facilitator of creative discussions around characters, scripts and series arcs in the comedy-drama genre.

Arianna Muñoz is a Mexican-American multidisciplinary creative. Her feature screenplay ‘Mary Shelley’ was a semifinalist for the Nicholl Fellowship in 2023. Her work as assistant sound designer can most recently be seen in the Donmar Warehouse’s production of the musical Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. She is currently developing a full-length play ‘Maurice’ as part of the Grange Projects Residency.

Joy Adeogun is an actor, writer, and comedian. She is a recent graduate of the Sky Arts Sky Creative programme.