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Short bio
Amerah Saleh is a Birmingham poet, playwright and strategist with Yemeni roots. She is Brand Lead at Oxfam GB, cofounder of More Than A Moment and Chair of Apples and Snakes. Her work spans spoken word, theatre and sound, exploring grief, belonging and the places we carry.
Long bio
Amerah Saleh is a poet, playwright, producer and strategist, born and raised in Birmingham with Yemeni roots. Her work moves between the stage, the boardroom and the community centre, always asking who gets to tell their story and who gets heard.
As an artist, Amerah blends spoken word, theatre, sound design and projected text. She has been commissioned by the Bush Theatre, Imperial War Museum, Birmingham 2022, Channel 4, Sampad and Birmingham REP, and performed in the Commonwealth Games handover at the Gold Coast in 2018. Her debut collection, I Am Not From Here, was published by Verve Poetry Press, which she cofounded. She is now writing Untitled, a play about grief and the Arab aunties who make room for it.
Amerah is Brand Lead at Oxfam GB, where she leads on brand and tone of voice, after serving as Strategic Advisor to the CEO. She cofounded More Than A Moment, a Birmingham createch agency and innovation lab, and spent eight years helping grow Beatfreeks into a full agency. She chairs the board of Apples and Snakes, writes for Alliance Magazine, and fundraises for humanitarian causes, from building a mosque in Uganda to supporting the Gaza response in Egypt.
Photos
Lead portrait by Paul Stringer.
Photo by Paul Stringer
Awards
Brum 30 Under 30, 2018
Youth 4 Excellence Overall Award, 2015
Youth 4 Excellence Art Award, 2015
““Well done to you, you did brilliantly. There was never a shadow of doubt, that those pieces in the corner had your name written all over them.”
““Amerah! I had no doubt in my mind about your ability to lead workshops, and enthuse young people, and you didn’t disappoint! You took control of the team, made yourself a central point of contact for myself, had an overview of what everyone was doing and just generally managed your team was great to see and work with.”
““Your workshops were professionally run, welcoming and inspiring in a difficult environment. It’s also evident that you plan them with great precision and thought, and they are far more structured than other workshops I have seen.”
““Amerah has always been someone whom I saw great potential in. She has the gift of being able to touch people’s lives and transforming them for the better. Be that through something she taught or something she helped them find within themselves. She shows immense potential and that’s what makes her so inspiring. All her great work so far is a testament to that and a testament to all her hard work, passion and creativity!”
