Scriptwriter · Director · Performer · Afro-Surrealist Storyteller
Building performance systems where the body, music, and language function as a live archive.
In Development — Theatre / Audio / Film
A one-man jazz–dub musical theater ritual built as a concussion-based performance system, exploring diaspora, trauma, and Black queer identity across a 100-year conversation in the Afro-diaspora.
Finding Harlem: Harlem Dream
"I'm building performance systems where memory moves through the body so it can speak again."
My work is grounded in a diasporic theory of remix shaped by Jamaican sound system culture. A remix is not an adaptation — it takes something that already exists and moves it through your body, your time, and your lived experience, so it can speak again under new conditions.
Across theatre, film, audio, and immersive forms, I treat the body, voice, and sound as a living archive. I'm exploring what happens when history is not held at a distance but embodied — so that memory becomes something we can witness together in real time.
My current work sits inside a 100-year conversation across the Afro-diaspora, where literature, music, and performance meet. I'm going beyond preserving archive — I'm remixing it, so it can live.
Jamaican / American · New York / London
Ano Okera is a Jamaican/American scriptwriter, director, and performer working across theatre, film, audio, and immersive forms. Rooted in Afro-surrealism and Jamaican dub culture, his work blends jazz, poetry, and movement to explore Black diasporic memory, migration, and survival. He builds performance systems where remix transforms archive into lived, embodied experience.
2024
Showrunner · Director · Writer · Co-EP — Gold Dust / Spotify
Audio Drama Series2023
Director · Movement Director · Dramaturge — Theatre Peckham, London
Commissioned — Black Cultural Archives & DTA2022
Screenwriter — AMC / 10 Palm Pictures
Drama Series — Writers Room2021
Writer · Director · Producer
Best Documentary Short — NYIFA2022
Writer — Musical Short Script
Finalist — Harlem Int'l Film Festival2019
Writer — Short Script
Finalist — Creative Screenwriting Unique VoicesGrants · Fellowships · Commissions · Collaborations
anookera.com · New York / London
anookera@gmail.com