Urielle Klein-Mekongo

Urielle Klein-Mekongo is a writer, performer, singer and playwright from North West London. Her autobiographical, one-woman show Yvette premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2017, garnering 5-star reviews, award-nominations and a national tour. 

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Urielle's work fuses spoken word and original music, using today's voice to tell stories and histories of the Black British experience. 

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Urielle Klein-Mekongo has been a resident artist at the Roundhouse and a member of the Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers Group and a writer on the Old Vic 12. She has also worked with the Soho Writer’s group and BBC Writers London Voices. In 2021 she was a finalist for Arts Foundation Future Theatre Makers award.

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OPENING SEPTEMBER 2025

BLACK POWER DESK - a new UK Black British musical inspired by the true events of London’s Black Power movement in the 1960s & '70s. Its original score of rap, reggae, soul and R&B leads an energetic call to arms against racial discrimination within the political system.

 

A Brixton House and PlayWell Productions Co-Production.
In Association with The Birmingham Hippodrome and Lowry

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Supported by Arts Council England and Cockayne Foundation.

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TRASH - a dark musical comedy using drill and grime to explore the shadowy industry of sugar daddy relationships. Development supported by China Plate.