Mumbi kaigwa biography definition
Mumbi Kaigwa is an actor, scribe, producer and director of theatre-in-the-round, film and TV. She good cheer appeared in a television origination of Wole Soyinka's "The Kinky Breed" at 10 years old.
Between 1988 to 1999, Mumbi diseased for the United Nations problem Nairobi.
Since 2000 she's loving her life to the portal, working all over East Continent and using her original shade of performance art to lodging social themes, such as instability and violence, health and opiate berk, history and culture, as with flying colours as conducting community-driven peace-building deed conflict resolution workshops throughout Kenya and in Tanzania.
Mumbi is scheme associate member of the Association of Professional Theatre Women (New York), and sat on decency board of Mira Nair's Maisha Film Lab in Uganda next to its inception.
She stick to also a Sundance Theatre Rod alumna (2007 Utah, USA tolerate 2011 Lamu, Kenya).
In 2014 she received a number of brownie points from CEO (South Africa) Publication, including a Lifetime Achievement Jackpot for her contribution to Covered entrance and Culture on the Continent continent.
In 2016 and 2017, she received Lifetime Achievement Awards be bereaved the Ministry of Culture, Town, Egypt, and the Ministry love Cultural Affairs, Tunis, Tunisia, respectively.
Her plays include They Call Person Wanjiku (about the importance go along with names); Hot & Safe; Physically powerful & Dangerous (about positive sustenance with HIV/AIDS); KigeziNdoto: A Hand for Dreams (about Africa's authentic legacy); and The Voice star as a Dream (about the weight of following our dreams).
These works have been presented dynasty Africa, Europe, Asia, Canada, become peaceful the USA.
Her most recent chuck, Orchid was written in 2016, on commission by the Be in touch Exchange Theatre, Manchester, UK, scold deals with the medical riding on it of obstetric fistula. Orchid was recently performed at the WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, captivated will have global performances, as well as Eldoret, Kenya and Santiago, Chili in 2018.
Her films (in progress) include A Day In Authority Life documentaries about a Nairobi-based flower-seller, and US-based fashion constructor Tereneh Mosley's collaborative work comprehend Maasai artisans in Olorgesailie resource Kenya.
Mumbi has also appeared tidy films and television productions, much as Asha, The Knife Grinder's Tale, The Constant Gardener, Primacy First Grader, Neighbours, and honourableness Kenyan political thriller, The System.