Monique Touko
Director
Monique Touko is a London/Manchester based multidisciplinary artist- director, dramaturg and producer.
Upcoming shows include: Marie & Rosetta (Rose Theatre / Chichester Festival Theatre / English Touring Theatre); and Liberation (Royal Exchange / Manchester International Festival).
Directing credits include: G (Royal Court / Jerwood Theatre Upstairs); Wedding Band: A Love Hate Story in Black and White (Lyric Hammersmith); The Boy At The Back of The Class (Rose Theatre / Children's Theatre Partnership / UK Tour); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); We Need New Names (National Tour); Gone Too Far! (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Clinic (Almeida Theatre); Fair Play (Bush Theatre); and
Malindadzimu (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs).
Awards: 2022 Stage Debut Award for Best Director.
Her directing training includes Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme at Royal Exchange Manchester.
At the Young Vic, her training has involved the Intro to Directing course led by Sacha Weres, Boris Karloff Trainee Assistant Directors Programme and the Jerwood Assistant Director Scheme. In 2022, Monique was selected to take part in the National Theatre’s annual Directing Course.
Assisting credits include: Wishlist (Royal Exchange Manchester / Royal Court); Yellowman, Lorca’s Blood Wedding (Young Vic); China Plate’s On the Exhale (Traverse Theatre); Cock (Chichester Festival Theatre); Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre); and Rosmersholm (Duke of York Theatre).
She is also part of The Ubunifu Space — A definitive guide to music and culture from the youth of Africa and the diaspora — the Ubunifu way. Monique is project manager for the Space and regular member of the UK reaction team on the youtube channel which has a global following of 320K+ subscribers and over 50 million views.