Entrepreneurial Innovative trailblazer with 10+ years of professional experience in traditional theatre, applied theatre, industrial theatre, and spoken word performing and touring Southern Africa. Adept at translating isiXhosa literary texts into English and vice versa. Versed in acting, puppetry, comedy, and activations. Co-founder, director, and resident poet of Lingua Franca Spoken Word Movement, one of Cape Town’s premier poetry collectives, with a unique fusion of spoken word poetry and authentically South African music. In April 2018 Lingua Franca was invited by Northwestern University and Poetry Foundation for a two weeks residency, to deliver talks (on Lingua Franca’s pedagogies) and performances at the university and around the city of Chicago.
Mbongeni Nomkhonwana
South Africa
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