Creating Autobiographical Performance Work

Join performance artist Krishna Istha for a workshop that explores how artists and performers can craft autobiographical, genre-pushing works.

Participants will delve into idea-generating exercises, examining the use of personal experiences to shape stories, experimenting with form and structure, and will be encouraged to create their own material.

Krishna Istha is a London-based performance artist, comedian, theatre maker and screenwriter. They create socially conscious, form-pushing works about taboo or underrepresented experiences of gender, race and sexual politics.

They were a Barbican Centre Open Lab artist (2021-22) and an Arts Admin Bursary Artist (2020-21). They were one of two shortlisted writers for the SKY Arts & Royal Society of Literature Writers Awards under screenwriting (2022), and came Runner-Up on Screenshot (2021) – a competition for comedy writer-performers hosted by Sister Pictures and South of the River Pictures. Most recently, they wrote on Netflix’s Sex Education (Season 4, Episode 3), is a Netflix Documentary Talent Fund recipient, and one of the comedians featured on the Netflix Special Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda.

Photo by Christa Holka.

Presented as part of Queer Amusements, The Old Electric’s Power Plays and Blackpool Comedy Festival.