Tonderai Munyevu

Writer / Director

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
Directed by Matthew Lloyd

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
*Winner Best New Play 2022 UK Theatre Awards
*Shortlisted for The Alfred Fagon Award 2019

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

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