I am a multimedia and mulit-hyphenate artist, and  I am a son of the greatest city on Earth-Baltimore, Maryland. My passion for reflecting the beauty of Black people back to themselves led to the development of my debut film Damn Y’all Fine. Damn Y’all Fine is a love letter to Baltimore City and the Black queer and trans people who call it home. In this film, we explore the stories of the Black queer and trans artists and activists who shape the city, while unearthing the ways the city shapes them. Documenting the self-stylings, lived experiences, and expressive brilliance of Baltimore’s Black queer and trans community, Damn Y’all Fine highlights the cultural impact of a part of Baltimore that is rarely honored for its beauty. Black queer and trans folks’ contributions don't come up in discussions about Baltimore and yet the influence of Black queer and trans people is all over the city. This film is a counter narrative, a balm, a mirror, a museum for the community to see themselves and their beauty in. This is a celebration of resistance through aesthetics and artistry-enduring mediums that will live beyond us. I hope that this will be a part of a lineage of film that includes Tongues Untied, Paris is Burning, black./womyn., The Aggressives - the films that helped me see and celebrate myself. I hope it gives back all the love I have been lucky to receive in this city. I hope it shows my people to themselves in all their glory. I hope the city feels loved, seen and honored in all her authenticity, fierceness and fineness. I hope that when you finish this film, you walk away knowing “damn, I’m fine.

40 Year Old Puberty is the hilarious, award winning and crowd pleasing hit one man show from Ti Malik Coleman. The show follows Ti Malik's journey into manhood. A journey consisting of "Tantrums, testosterone and tenacity". From first crushes to first hairs, this story has it all. The show has won eleven awards and headlined several festivals.

From Colin Thomas, Fringe critic:

"from the opening seconds of this stand-up/storytelling routine, you can tell you’re in the hands of a smart, warm, confident performer. Coleman has an important story to tell: it’s about his journey from tomboy to butch dyke to trans man. Coleman elaborates this crucial form of cultural witness with humble, observant, funny material."

Awards:

Spirit of the Fringe Victoria, BC 2024

Volunteer Choice Award, Vancouver, BC 2024

Charm City Fringe Awards: (2024)

• The "Wildly Weird" Award
•  The "OMG It Me" Award
•  The "One Actor Wonder" Award
•  The "Gimme More!!!" Award
•  The "Come Hither" Award
•  The Creative Genius Award
•  The "Theatre Everlasting" Award
•  The "All the Gold Stars" Award

Best Solo Show, Dumbo Pride Comedy Festival, Brooklyn 2025

Zora’s Room was a social impact focused event series inspired by the life and legacy of Zora Neale Hurston that created a transformative experience by intertwining storytelling, community engagement, and cutting-edge immersive media technologies. The event was executive produced by Bakari Jones. I served as Director of Storytelling and assitant producer. 

A night at Zora's Room started with a warm greeting, a sweet treat and drink tickets.  From there, interaction began. Our immersive technology featured augmented reality art. Participants would aim their phones at selected art, and an virtual display would appear.  There were QR codes that when activated, a virtual bookshelf complete with artifacts from Zora's life would come alive. We also had curated vendors - from specialty tea to custom clothing that appealed to our audience. Tarot readers and other healers with spiritual technologies were also available for private readings.  About an hour into the event, we gathered around the ancestor altar. I would open with libations, we called our ancestors into the space and celebrated the enduring spirit of Black cultural traditions. 

The crown jewel of Zora's Room was our storytellers. Each installment of Zora's Room had a theme and each theme had 4 - 6 storytellers who would delight the crowd with stories of wins and losses, joys and pains, love and grief. Our audience was active and generous, it was the warmest hour in Baltimore. The night would conclude with our juke jam, a moment to revel in all that we shared.

Malik and Rasheed is an improv performance troupe, a teaching duo and one of Baltimore's favorite performance pairs. Ti Malik Coleman (Malik) and Rasheed Green (Rasheed) met as performers for Baltimore Improv Group in 2013. They quickly formed a bond of their love of comedy, specifically using comedy to take up space and send a message. Malik, a Black trans man and Rasheed, a Black queer man found that their unique perspectives in life led to hilarious and meaningful comedy.  Malik and Rasheed are known for their stage chemistry, quick wit and unforgettable characters.

 The two helped found Casually Dope, Baltimore's first all Black improv comedy troupe. While performing all around the country and Canada with Casually Dope, Malik and Rasheed also began working as a performing pair. The duo hosted Baltimore's Pride Block Party in 2014 and 2015.  They are also improv competition champions - 2018 they were 2/3rds of Three the Hard Way, 11 time Baltimore Improv Group Deathmath champions. In 2020 they  won an international competition, Globehead (Toronto) as part of 'The Fam'. And in 2021 they competed in Globehead as the duo 'Onyx Charm'. 

In 2021, they formed their improv duo, Malik and Rasheed, and have been rocking stages ever since. They have been a headliner for the Chroma Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon and the  Queer and Funny festival in Minneapolis. Malik and Rasheed have been a  featured performer for Dumbo Pride Comedy festival in Brooklyn, FlameCon, Washington Improv Theater’s Cookout,  and are frequent guests of Baltimore Improv Group and Highwire Improv.

Vulnerable Homeboy is an in development one man show from Ti Malik Coleman. Vulnerable Homeboy is a standup special about healthy masculinity, dating disasters, adult friendships and other antics and observations from Ti Malik.  

The development process for this show is like any other art work. Excavating, reopening wounds, finding new perspectives, writing, editing, giving up, writing some more, giving up again. Standup is an art form like none other. You have to share your rough drafts, that is part of the process. For every five minutes of polished material an audience experiences,  comics spend hours of open mics and rewrites to get it just right. 

You can find scraps of this show at an open mic near you.