Rene Karen Katiisa is a Theatre maker, Creative Director and Cultural producer. She is a graduate of the renowned BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Rene has worked with ground-breaking theatre companies and creatives such as Complicite, Frantic Assembly, Ridiculusmus, and Spymonkey, and collaborated with notable figures including Toby Jones (The Hunger Games), Tom Morris (Bristol Old Vic), and Paul King (Paddington).

For over 20 years, Rene worked in the Public Sector, leading on national projects that focused on improving the lives of children and young people. At the same time, produced arts programmes for inner city young people to access the arts by collaborating with Lambeth Music Service, Rambert Dance Company, The National Ballet, Bristol Old Vic and Grammy award-winning musicians Ladysmith Black Mambazo

As a re-emerging artist, Rene returns to the stage later this year, with Sugarcane & Concrete —a bold, immersive, fast-paced, and heart-warming one-woman theatrical experience that follows (I)Rene, a British-Ugandan woman, on her journey from childhood in Uganda to adulthood in South London. It is a celebration of Black joy, Black love, and the richness of lived experience — told through humour, energy, and truth.

This production anchors her new venture, The Library — a media house and platform she is currently co-founding to spotlight global majority voices/creatives, living and or working in Bristol, South West and Beyond, through a radio show, podcast, events and international collaboration.