About Curmiah

Curmiah Lisette is a St Lucian-British poet, educator and performer with an expansive creative background. She is the double recipient of St Lucia’s 2014 Outstanding Youth in Literary and Performing Arts awards, the 23rd Miss Caribbean & Commonwealth winner, and a 2020 nominee for the British National Education Union’s Blair Peach Award. Much of her work merges art forms to draw on giving voice to Caribbean, migrant and black female narratives.

Curmiah has worked in education for the past thirteen years, alongside her artistic career which commenced in her childhood. She completed her post-graduate Masters Degree in Creative Writing and Education from Goldsmiths University in 2020, and founded Tropical Theatre in 2021. Tropical Theatre provides art-education through creative collaboration to preserve Caribbean history, language and cultural arts.

Curmiah delivers workshops at both corporate and community level ranging from work with Aberdeen Standard (2019), Saint Lucia Roots and Soul (2019), The London Borough of Barking & Dagenham (2020) & South Eastern Trains and The World Reimagined (2022), engaging participants with the topics of cultural confidence, inclusion and identity, to deliver their writing as performance and artwork.

She has delivered multimodal poetry performances across London in spaces such as the V&A Museum, the British Library and the Black Cultural Archives. She has also performed internationally at the World Expo Dubai and in St Lucia as representative for the island during independence celebrations.

Her award-winning poetic shorts continue to gather laurels in film festivals globally. She continues to merge her disciplines to give voice to the Caribbean and British Caribbean experience hoping to dispel feelings of diasporic displacement and to restore cultural confidence in the creole language and ancient teachings of Africa and the Caribbean.

View gallery of Curmiah’s 2019 Saint Lucia Roots & Soul performance below.