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Riah Knight

born 1996 is a British singer-songwriter and actress.

Since her debut in "ROMA ARMEE" (2017), she has worked on multiple theatre productions directed by Yael Ronen at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, including "Yes but No" (2018), "Rewitching Europe" (2019), and "Slippery Slope" (2021), to which she also contributed as a writer and songwriter. With "Slippery Slope", she was invited to the 2022 Theatertreffen. In 2022, she was also nominated by the "Theater Heute"-Critics as one of the 'best upcoming actresses of the year'. She composes music for theatre and film in addition to her own releases.

Riah was part of Marta Górnicka's "Political Voice Institute", and has featured in various performances and festivals, such as "The Long Night of Coming Out" and "Gypsy Songs and Reports from Brexitland" at Studio Я. She is a published poet (Butchers Dog, Wagtail 2021) and Radio Presenter (Refuge World Wide, Platform B) and collaborates internationally with hip-hop and jazz artists. Riah is also part of the feminist theatre collective "Glossy Pain", co-developing their sell-out two-woman play "BANG!" (2021) and composing music, together with Hannes Gwisdek, for their following production "SEYMOUR". Her latest single, "Losing Daylight", was released with Blunt Shelter Records in September 2022. She currently lives in Berlin.