Susie Miller Oduniyi

London

Susie Miller Oduniyi is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Humourisk, a Community Interest Company that create performance and art that redefines perceptions, co-creating work with communities and artists through creative exchange. Shed Life and New View Arts are current projects that have been co-created with the communities of Thames View Estate in Barking. Susie is a theatre director and community engagement specialist; she led the engagement strategy for the Hackney Olympic Handover celebrations in 2008. In 2009 Susie completed the Cultural Leadership Programme, an Arts Council England initiative to provide training and research based development opportunities for cultural leaders. In 2009 LIFT Festival (London International Festival of Theatre), Susie was Public Engagement Associate developing a model of arts-led community engagement, researched within arts organisations in the UK and Chicago and disseminated across the UK arts and cultural sector. Susie went onto to deliver art commissions for the Olympic Delivery Authority as part of London 2012 delivering an artist-led public art commission, engaging communities on the Woolwich Estate celebrating the archery tournament held at Woolwich Barracks. From 2013-2015 Susie was commissioned to produce the Sparked series of exhibitions at The View Tube on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for The Legacy List. Humourisk was commission in 2015 to create a public art commission for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham co-created with the community of Thames View Estate; the 8 reliefs designed by local residents adorn the top balcony section of the façade of Farr Avenue shopping parade. Susie was Artistic Director of Outside Edge Theatre Company from 2015-2018 the only UK theatre company working within addiction and recovery, directing ‘Rockston Stories’ a dark Victorian tale of addiction set in Hoxton Hall a Music Hall in East London with support from Associate Director Mark Rylance. Susie co-devised the Humourisk production of Brown Bread with a cast who drew on their lived experience of addiction. The production was performed as part of The Science Gallery Hooked season in 2018.