Sifiso Mabena

Sifiso Mabena is a Zimbabwean, NY based, multidisciplinary theatre maker who is a skilled actor, singer, puppeteer, educator, playwright and deviser. Her work often explores displacement in diasporic communities, history, identity and femininity.

Credits: KLII (Walker Arts Center; Redcat; Under the Radar ’23), Mud/Drowning (Mabou Mines), Riddle of the Trilobites (Flint Rep; New Victory Theatre), Red Hills (En Garde Arts), The Sprezzaturameron (BAC), Shoot Don’t Talk (Labapalooza, St Ann’s Warehouse). International: Winter’s Tale (National Arts Festival, SA), The Comeback (HIFA, ZW). As a playwright, Sifiso has collaborated with The Royal Court Theatre and the British Council (ZW). Her work has been performed at the Harare International Festival of the Arts (Winner HIFADirect 2011), Intwasa Festival and the Chimanimani Festival. She premiered her show [sunflower] at Dixon Place (June 2022). Sifiso is a New Victory Labworks 2022/23 artist.

www.fisopearlmabena.com   IG: @fisozozomab