Mwenya B. Kabwe

Born in Zambia. Mwenya B. Kabwe is a theater and performance maker, facilitator of creative processes, performer, writer, arts educator, and scholar.
She holds a PhD from The Center for Theater Dance & Performance Studies (CTDPS) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where she is currently a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Theater Division. Her creative practice and research are focused on contemporary African theater and performance, migration, immersive and site-specific performance work, live art, collaborative and interdisciplinary art making and re-imagining African futures. She has lectured at the UCT Drama Department, Wits School of Arts, Theater & Performance Division, and the Market Theater Laboratory. She is a co-curator of the Unrehearsed Futures conversation series and a curatorial partner in the OpenScape Network. Her current projects include working as a dramatist for William Kentridge and incubating several collaborative interdisciplinary experiments for Season 10 at The Center for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg.