Sunni Lamin Barrow

Sunni Lamin Barrow

Opleiding
DAS Theatre
Lichting
2026

Sunni Lamin Barrow (b. 1998) is a celebrated pluridisciplinary artist from The Gambia, now making waves in the Netherlands. With multiple awards to his name, Sunni's artistry unfolds as a dynamic exploration of identity, belonging, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Through his richly layered creative practice, Sunni engages with the nuanced experiences of African queer refugees, placing their narratives within a global context. His work weaves together themes of love, loneliness, emotionality, the intersection of queerness and blackness, global citizenship, and the evolving concept of kinship in the modern world.

Sunni’s works have graced prestigious venues and platforms, including the Huis Marseille Museum, Van Gogh Museum, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Fashion for Good Museum, Oerol Festival, Synergy Art Festival, Crossing Borders, Het Nationale Theater, Oude Kerk, Explore the North Festival, Paradiso, Kunst Museum Den Haag, and the Netherlands Theater Festival, among others. Each appearance underscores his growing influence and the universal heart connecting resonance of his art.

In September 2023, Sunni debuted his highly acclaimed solo performance project, “A Fist of Tongues” a poignant spoken word theater exploration of self and survival. This piece, which earned a nomination for the prestigious BNG Bank Theater Prize, was lauded as one of the most compelling productions of the Dutch theater season in 2023. In it, Sunni stages a visceral roundtable conversation between his multiple selves, a cathartic dialogue that confronts the specter of his traumatic past while envisioning a hopeful future. This powerful work embarked on a national tour across the Netherlands, traveling from September 13th of 2023 to December 13 of 2024 respectively.

Driven by a vision to elevate spoken word poetry into a theatrical genre of its own, Sunni is pursuing a Master’s Program at Das Theater, Amsterdam. His research focuses on assembling and developing Spoken Word Theater as a distinct genre of its own, while stretching the boundaries of spoken word poetry and theatre, blending its raw emotional power with the structural complexity of the stage. Through this journey, Sunni not only evolves as a pluridisciplinary artist but also seeks to lay the foundation for a lasting legacy, thereby transforming the art form and courageously bridging personal narrative and universal truth.

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