Talawa Theatre Company is a Black British theatre company founded in 1986. The core of Talawa's work is championing reinterpretations of classic plays, developing new writing and directing talent, and developing and producing new plays from and about the Black British Community and Caribbean and African diaspora within Britain. Since 2011, Talawa Theatre Company has been led by CEO and Artistic Director Michael Buffong, whose career spans theatre, television, radio and film. The name Talawa comes from a Jamaican patois saying "Me lickle but me talawa", meaning to be small but strong.