I am a Zambian-born maker of theatre and performance, facilitator of creative processes, a performer, writer, arts educator and performance studies academic with migrant tendencies. I am local in parts of Johannesburg, Lusaka, Cape Town, New York and Boston. My creative practice is focused on contemporary African theatre and performance, immersive and site specific live art, collaborative and interdisciplinary art making and re-imagining African futures. I am driven by a desire to bring something new into being and have a creative obsession with issues of migration. 

As an artist an scholar, my teaching and research practice is based on creating space for people to be as generous as possible, on listening carefully to, and trusting the multiple intelligences of all the materials in the room and allowing them to work together without hierarchy. I am interested in the creative representation of research, I write performance texts and academic texts, and thrive on creative problem solving with other people. I aspire towards interdisciplinary and collaborative creative arts education and am committed to transformative pedagogy that understands the arts as social practice. In both my teaching and making, I work towards crafting individual offers into coherent, impactful outcomes which are ultimately about connecting people to each other in meaningful ways. 

I am also a systemic process design facilitator trained by Ingenious People’s Knowledge (IPK Consultants) to work with various dialogue-based methodologies to facilitate whole system transformation. I design and deliver workshops, trainings, planning meetings, conferences and provide a range of tailor made creative consultations. I also have a background in designing universally accessible outdoor education programmes for young people. 

I am the co-convenor of The Pan-Galactic Womxn’s Joy Collective, an informal monthly gathering of women in theatre and performance circles. We seek to address the gender inequalities and discriminations in the performance industries by providing a rigorous, reflective and insightful space where we can think critically about being embodied as womxn and use our collective expertise to develop alternative and sustainable creative practices that do not continue to drain our physical, psychological, financial and family resources.  This community of womxn artists is working actively to bridge the gap between individual awareness of some of our most pressing challenges and making concrete, actionable changes in how the creative sector operates, striving for fulfilling, ethically sound, uncompromising, joyful creative work.