Suzanne Andrade

Suzanne Andrade performs dark, disturbing and extremely funny tales over original electronic music and scratchy vinyl soundtracks.

Reminds me of William Burroughs and his strange stories. Hypnotically brilliant - BBC Radio 3

A highly original and theatrical spoken word performer who has supported big comedy names, cabaret acts and musicians, not to mention literary figures. The humour and originality inherent in her work makes it easily transferable, bringing humour to the poetry scene, a dark and disturbing tone to the comedy scene and a literary flavour to music gigs; thus, her work is accepted and highly praised within all of these fields, transgressing the boundaries of spoken word to create highly theatrical and beautifully delivered narratives.

After gaining a first class acting degree and a masters in writing for the theatre Suzanne founded two theatre companies and was commissioned to write a play for the BBC.

She moved in to spoken word via stand up comedy, winning numerous competitions in the North before moving to London to perform on the poetry scene. In a matter of months Suzanne appeared on BBC Radio 3, where she has since appeared again on both spoken word The Verb and experimental music programme Mixing It. She has performed at all of the major poetry venues in London, as well as cabaret and music venues across the UK.

Currently Suzanne is collaborating with artist and animator Paul Barritt who illustrates for Time Out, on an animated performance poetry production. Suzanne is also working on an album that is due to be released this year through a major independent record label.