Mũkonzi Mũsyoki
Stratford: Assistant director of Death and the King’s Horseman and Associate, The Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program. Mũkonzi is a theatre scholar, writer, director and dramaturge. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Alberta in Performance Studies. He has worked with Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre, Timms Centre Studio Theatre, the University of Alberta Drama Department, Northern Light Theatre, MAA and PAA Theatre, Concordia University of Edmonton, Concrete Theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, and The Citadel Theatre. Mũkonzi also continues to work as a dramaturge for Ignite Afrika Trust, where he participates in the OSNW (Old Stories in New Ways) Project and TIC (Theatrical Interactions for Change) back in Kenya, collaborating with local artists from Kisumu. His research is on Postcolonial Theatre and Performance, Dramaturgy, Urban Discourse and Identity Politics in contemporary East Africa and the Diaspora. He was an associate at The Foerster-Bernstein New Play Development Program at Stratford Festival. Mũkonzi was the production dramaturge for Serving Elizabeth by Marcia Johnson and is excited to have worked on Death and the King’s Horseman in his second season at the Stratford Festival as the assistant director.
