Tonderai Munyevu
Writer / Director
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Biography
Tonderai Munyevu is an award-winning queer writer, director, and performer. Writing credits include Mugabe, My Dad and Me (York Theatre Royal/ETT, UK Theatre Award: Best New Play, 2022), Mansfield Park (Watermill Theatre), The Moors (Tara Arts/Two Gents), and The Last Chihoro (BBC Radio 4). He also writes prose, including The Visiting Hours, A Dispatch From Zimbabwe for The Johannesburg Review Of Books, and Bullets for the anthology Black And Gay In The UK.
He has been a salaried writer at Stockroom, Associate Artist at Tiata Fahodzi, Creative Associate at Brixton House Theatre, a member of HighTide’s The Lighthouse Writers’ Group, a recipient of a Peggy Ramsay Foundation Grant, and the co-founder/co-artistic director of Two Gents Productions.
Credits
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
|
MAMA GOOSE 2025 |
Theatre Royal Stratford East |
Co-writer and Co-director with Vikki Stone |
|
MURDERING MARY 2025 |
East 15 |
Writer |
|
THE INTIMACY TEST 2024 |
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama |
Writer / Director |
|
MANSFIELD PARK 2023 |
Watermill Theatre |
Co-Writer and Co-Director |
|
ALICE IN WONDERLAND 2023 |
Liverpool Playhouse & Plymouth Theatre Royal |
Co-Writer |
|
BLACCINE 2023 |
Pitlochry Theatre |
Director: Debbie Hannan |
|
I, JACQUES 2023 |
Hampton Court Palace |
Writer |
|
CINDERELLA 2023 |
Lyric Hammersmith |
Director |
|
HOW A CITY CAN SAVE A WORLD 2022 |
Sheffield Crucible |
Co-Writer |
|
MUGABE, MY DAD AND ME 2021 – 2022 |
English Touring Theatre, York Theatre Royal and Brixton House |
Writer |
|
BALTIMORE 2020 |
Central School of Speech and Drama |
Director |
|
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 2019 |
Tara Arts Theatre |
Co-Director |
|
THE MOORS 2018 |
Tara Arts Theatre |
Writer |
|
ZHE: NOUN [UNDEFINED] 2013 |
Collective Artists / Soho Theatre |
Writer |
|
HARARE FILES: HOW SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE LOST THEIR HOMES 2009 |
Harare International Festival of The Arts |
Writer |
|
MAGESTI 2009 |
Harare International Festival Of The Arts |
Co-Writer |
Radio
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
|
THE LAST CHIHORO 2023 |
BBC RADIO 4 |
Writer |
|
BLACCINE 2023 |
Stockroom and Pitlochry Theatre |
Writer |
|
MUGABE MY DAD AND ME 2021 |
Audible |
Writer |
|
THE TRANQUIL MINDS 2015 |
BBC Radio 4 |
Writer |