XANA

Xana is a composer, spatial sound artist, music supervisor and a haptic specialist sound designer developing accessible audio systems for theatre and live art spaces. Xana is the music science and technology lead and project mentor supporting Black artists and inventors at audio research label Inventing Waves.

Xana’s credits for the Donmar include: The Trials and Marys Seacole.

Theatre credits: After Sunday (Belgrade Theatre); Alterations (National Theatre); Conversations After Sex (Park Theatre); Pig Heart Boy (Unicorn Theatre); Shifters; Barcelona (Duke of York's); Shit Life Crisis; Dead Girls Rising (Silent Uproar/UK tour); Superwoman Schema; Speed; The Real Ones; My Father’s Fable; Elephant; Sleepova; The P Word; Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre); The Architect (ATC/GDIF); Beautiful Thing (Stratford East); Imposter 22; Word:Play; Living Newspaper #4 (Royal Court): Rumble In the Jungle (Rematch:Live); Anna Karenina (Edinburgh Lyceum/Bristol Old Vic); Sundown Kiki; Earthworks; Sundown Kiki Reloaded; The Collaboration; Changing Destiny; Fairview; Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); ...cake (Theatre Peckham); Who Killed My Father (Tron); as british as a watermelon (Contact); Hyde and Seek (Guildhall); Burgerz (Hackney Showroom); King Troll [The Fawn]; Everyday (Deafinitely) (New Diorama Theatre); Black Holes (The Place); Hive City Legacy (Roundhouse); Main Character Energy; But Daddy I love her;
Glamrou: From Quran to Queen; Curious; Half-Breed (Soho Theatre); Blood Knot; Guards At The Taj (Orange Tree Theatre); Samuel Takes A Break; SEX SEX MEN MEN (Yard Theatre); Limp Wrist & Iron Fist; Everything I Own and Is Dat Yu Yeah (Brixton House).

Awards include: BBTA Award-winner for Best Sound Design 2023 and 2024; Offie Award-winner for King Troll, Shifters and Guards at the Taj; Offie Award nominations for Sleepova, The P Word and Blood Knot; Olivier Affiliate Production award for The P Word and Sleepova.