Welcome to 9/16ths ensemble member Chia Phoenix: the expression of rebirth, always the possibility
of a better version of yourself….this is who I am. Have a think, we are our ancestors wildest
dreams….we are their dream.
9/16ths performer Chia Phoenix ‘I was born to be an activist…every school report
mentioned me standing up for injustice…the teachers wanted to know what was I going to do
with that passion….’
A St Kitts dad (Kittian) mum from Jamaica (St Thomas) great gran Indian migrated to the caribbean
day and attended a funeral where there was a wake in an Irish pub …..
Born on the same day as Malcolm X, May 19th, Chia Phoenix went to The GreyCoats Hospital
Comprehensive in Westminster, did a degree in Media Performance at Bedfordshire
Credits Pig Heart Boy (played Nan and the pig) at the Unicorn (Malorie Blackman’s novel about a
boy with a pig heart transplant), the audience feedback was brilliant.
Actress, creative activist at Icon theatre: often working with people in prison and secure units
helping people with myriad experience translate and communicate with themselves and each other
performing skills: a new public health and healing tool.
An Holistic Therapist Lead Artist Cookham Wood Programme (a category C prison) with over twenty
years in the experience of working in Hackney Chia’s ‘Journey Within offers anyone
creative therapy and spiritual mentoring. Particularly renowned at Rich Mix Shoreditch for the film
He’s Vulnerable When is a real, local, UK understanding of black men’s conversations, lives,
experiences.
She says: ‘how lucky am !? I was able to see their growth…to see the spirit in black men in the UK’.
Chia Phoenix is a wonder: understanding the right to value the labour of life in the moment, in the
conversation, in the everyday across the lifespan as a priceless part of human worth. We need the
ordinary, the day to day to be documented across society to build the world we’re capable of in 2026.
More context on Insta and her own written, directed and produced The Forty
Elephants.
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