Monique Eleanor is an actor and writer who was awarded the Arif Hussein Award on her MA course at Mountview Academy. She is passionate about creating work that showcases black excellence and sheds light on African diaspora stories, and impacts change.
Most recently she was script assistant on Burlesque, the new musical based on the hit film which opened at Manchester Opera House in June 2024.
She also premiered her sold out one woman show No but…Where are you really from? as part of Theatre Peckham’s Fringe Festival which was then taken to the Bath Fringe Festival.
Audience review:
“In No, but…where are you really from? Monique Eleanor has woven seven deeply impactful poems into a unique journey for her captivated audience. The show provides a generous insight into perspectives that people might not usually take time to consider, or conversely, might be all too familiar with. A heartfelt performance of carefully collected words imbued with profound and urgent themes like identity, grief and belonging, No, but…where are you really from? is an epic poem, a wake-up call, a lament, a rallying cry, a celebration, a must-see.”
