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...thin majority cultures, particularly those of women. She has been Arts Council playwright in residence at the Soho Theatre, and at the Black Theatre Co-operative. She was awarded the Verity Bargate Award for Best Play by the Soho Theatre Company, and shortlisted for an Arts Council award for Best Play. She has had over a dozen plays produced over BBC Radio; one short film for BBC 2, and co-produced and wrote and presented the documentary on Black art in the West: Reflecting Skin, (2004) for the BBC. She has played Joan of Arc at the Theatre Atelier in Paris; wrote and performed her improvisational oratorio “Greco/Davis” for the 2009 London Jazz Festival alongside the Black British jazz artists, Cleveland Watkiss and Julian Joseph. Her play Marilyn and Ella, about the real life friendship of Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald had a brief run at the Apollo Theatre, West End in 2009.
She is the author of two novels: Hanging by Her Teeth (1994) and Entropy (2009). In October 2009, her memoir/ music history: Obama Music, was published.
Her biography: Langston Hughes: the Value Of Contradiction will be published by Arcadia in Spring 2011. She is currently working on a novel about the Pre-Raphelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and has been commissioned to write a new work for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with the composer Errolyn Wallen.
She is also creating a 3.0 Diversity organisation to launch in Paris and London in 2011.
On 1 April 2005 she was appointed to the British Museum's Board of Trustees for a period of four years. In 2008 she was reappointed as a Trustee for a second period and on 26 March 2009 she was promoted to Deputy Chairman.
She was appointed OBE in the 2010 Birthday Honours for contribution to the arts.
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