Ndayola Ulenga

Actor, singer, movement practitioner and writer Ndayola Ulenga takes a humanist approach to her work. She’s interested in showcasing the shared humanity of all and confronting audiences with their innate capacity to dehumanise others, and in so doing, dehumanise themselves. She believes in the mysticism of the arts: its ability to connect us to something greater than ourselves. Art reveals our fundament similarities as people: connecting us to our humanity.

She is fascinated by notions of identity – how we perform our “selves”. She wonders about the multiplicity of the “self”, the infinite versions of the “self” one could (have) be(en), and how the “self” is made up from the stories of those around and before us. She also thinks on the epigenetics of self, and how our lineage and the stories of the past form who we are today. These themes were explored through her one woman show, KoKo, performed in June of 2025 at the Theatre School in Windhoek, Namibia. In April 2024, created in the framework of her theatre company NU Theatrics, Ndayola directed, co-produced and acted in The Wasp, written by the British author Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, for which she has received three 2026 Namibian Theatre and Film Award (NTFA) nominations (Best Stage Production, Best Director [Theatre], Best Actor [Theatre]). The Wasp was performed at the National Theatre of Namibia.