Mwenya Kabwe
Mwenya B. Kabwe is a Zambian-born maker of theatre and performance, facilitator of creative processes, a performer, writer, arts educator and scholar. She holds a PhD from The Centre for Theatre Dance & Performance Studies (CTDPS) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where she is currently Senior Lecturer and Head of the Theatre Section. Her creative practice and research is focused on contemporary African theatre 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 division of Theatre & Performance and the Market Theatre 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 with William Kentridge as the Dramaturg for his latest theatrical production “The Great Yes, The Great No” and incubating several collaborative interdisciplinary experiments through The Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg.
As of: September 2025