MOTION

MOTION is a poet, playwright, screenwriter and emcee. Her works for the stage and screen have been featured across Canada, as well as in the U.S, Caribbean, Europe and Africa. She is a writer and co-producer on the TV series Coroner (CBC/CW) and co-writer of the feature Akilla’s Escape, directed by Charles Officer (2020), which premiered at TIFF 2020. She is writer of Oraltorio: A Theatrical Mixtape (with DJ L’Oqenz), author of Motion in Poetry (Women’s Press), published in The Black Notes (Insomniac Press) and teaches her course Griots to Emcees: Spoken Word, Performance & Culture at York University.