Phala Ookeditse-Phala

Phala Ookeditse Phala is a multi-award-winning “storiyer” in the form of a theatre-maker and director whose work has won awards in South Africa, the US, Czech Republic and Australia.

He is the co-director of Noma Yini, a South African arts collective in the business of “storying” – the multiple ways of coming into, portraying, forming, building, making, and performing stories.

From 2019 to 2023, he was the Animateur at The Centre for the Less Good Idea, an interdisciplinary incubator space for the arts, based in Maboneng, Johannesburg. He holds a Masters in Dramatic Arts from Wits University. His works champion emotional and psychologically stimulating storying as a uniquely African aesthetic. His focus and interest are on methodologies of making and creating work in ways that collapse and disrupt conventional norms.