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MICHEALA COEL: DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, PLAYWRIGHT. "Like any experience I've found traumatic, it's therapeutic to write Michaela Coel (born 1987), is a British In 2014, Channel 4 announced that Coel actress, screenwriter, director, producer, would star in and write a new sitcom called about it, and to twist a singer, songwriter, poet, playwright and Chewing Gum, inspired by her play Chewing narrative of pain into one BAFTA award winner. Gum Dreams. Her performance and writing of hope, and even earned her two BAFTAs in 2016. At the humour." Coel Michaela's parents are Ghanaian. She and her BAFTA Awards, Michaela gave an older sister grew up in London (Hackney and inspirational speech wearing a dress Tower Hamlets), with her mother as her designed by her mother, made of Kente parents had separated before her birth. Cloth, a Ghananian material. “She won the Laurence Olivier Michaela began to study English Literature More recently Michaela created, wrote, and Theology at the University of produced, co-directed and starred in the Bursary Award Birmingham. She took a Che' comedy-drama series I May Destroy You, Walker masterclass at RADA and in 2009, inspired by her own experience of sexual which helped transferred to the Guildhall School of Music assault. The show launched on the BBC in and Drama, where she was the first black fund her June 2020 to widespread acclaim. woman enrolled in five years. Michaela won schooling” the Laurence Olivier Bursary award, which helped her fund her schooling. W W W . 1 0 0 G R E A T B L A C K B R I T O N S . C O . U K Photo from: www.intothefoldmag.com/2019 text:Wikipedia (2020).

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