Playwrights

Welcome to our directory of playwrights from around the world who are writing for young audiences. Feel free to browse country or name. Know someone that should be on the list? (Including yourself?) Send us the info!

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Masango, Nonceba,

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Lereko Mfono

Lereko Mfono is a multifaceted writer, performer and facilitator who honed his craft at the National School of the Arts and later studied Applied drama at Wits University-Drama for Life in Johannesburg

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Selloane Mokuku

Selloane Mokuku, AKA Lalu, is an experienced theatre maker, storyteller, academic, writer and performer. She has worked with and for young people internationally, through organisations such as UNICEF and Save the Children UK

Editors 6/5/17 Editors 6/5/17

Mojalefa Samson Mlambo

Mojalefa Samson Mlambo is a freelancing playwright, director, poet, mentor, tutor, drama facilitator and an actor

Editors 12/26/15 Editors 12/26/15

Schulz, Tamara (South Africa)

Tamara Schulz grew up alongside elephants and tall trees in a remote wilderness area in Zambia. She completed her MA in African masquerade performance at Rhodes University, after which she found her way to a mosaic-like career in theatre and education. She has worked as a set and costume designer, a director, educator, lecturer, writer, waitress and fundraiser.

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Fourie, Charles (South Africa)

Charles J. Fourie is an accomplished and multi-award winning playwright, scriptwriter, and film and theater director and producer whose works have been staged throughout South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, and also broadcast on various radio and television stations such as SABC, M-NET, KykNET, BBC in the United Kingdom, Radio Sonder Grense, and Maroela Radio.

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Wentworth, Michael (South Africa)

Michael Wentworth is a writer, playwright, poet, director, producer and a cultural activist. He has written and directed numerous plays and has published a sold-out collection of poetry entitled A Love Letter for the Epoch.

Michael started writing professionally for the stage in 1996 when he was commissioned to write a children's play for the Cultural Calabash Arts Festival. Since then he has written and directed original stories as well as various adaptations and tributes for both young and adult audiences.

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Twani, Sinethemba (South Africa)

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Jeynes, Karen (South Africa)

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Turner, Gisele (South Africa)

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Molusi, Omphile (South Africa)

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Higginson, Craig (South Africa)

Craig Higginson is a novelist, playwright, theatre director, dramaturge, editor and university lecturer. Craig’s writing and directing have been nominated for and won several awards in South Africa and the United Kingdom, including the Sony Gold Award, an Edinburgh Fringe First and a Naledi Award for Best New South African play. He is the Literary Manager and dramaturge at the Market Theatre and teaches playwriting at Wits. His plays and fiction are represented by PFD literary agency in London. He is currently doing his PhD at Wits University.