Nomakhwezi Becker

Actress Storyteller Poet Performance maker Creative Administrator

I am a South African – German interdisciplinary performer, writer and facilitator, creating through theatre, poetry and storytelling and use she/her pronouns. My practice explores collaborative distant intimacy, finding, reclaiming, and creating home in the in-between spaces as a woman raised by multiple homes, heritages and languages. My practice draws from the wisdom of call and response in South African storytelling as a tool for creative world building in order I hope to shape worlds that hold space for claiming ‘in-betweenity’ as a place of belonging.

Credits

LEAD ACTRESS, Cell Block Double (Theatre), Durban Playhouse Company, 3 days, 2017
LEAD ACTRESS, Emzansi in Orania (Film), 2019 *Nominated for Best Newcomer Actress at Simon Sabela Awards 2020
ACTRESS, PLAYWRIGHT & PRODUCER, When Coasts Meet (Theatre), Grahamstown National Arts Festival, 2019 *Ovation Fringe Award
POET, Martin Luther King Celebration, Isabela Stewart Gardner Museum, 2020
POET, Annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading in Providence, 2020
POET & FACILITATOR, Poetry Africa Festival, 2020
ASSISTANT PRODUCER & CREATIVE ADMINiSTRATOR, Nozincwadi Storytelling Festival, 2020-2022
FACILITATOR & CREATIVE ADMINISTRATOR, Franschhoek Literary Festival - Storytelling Children's Leg, 2022
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, Bonsai (Film), 2022
ACTRESS & PLAYWRIGHT, Holding Ground (Theatre), Golden Goose Theatre, 2024
POET & FACILITATOR, BYP Showcase, Barbican, 2024
POET, You Belong Here Festival, Southbank Centre, 2024

Training

BA and BA Hons in Drama and Performance Studies, University of Kwazulu Natal, 2017 & 2018
Scriptwriters Training Program, KZN Film Commission, 2021
MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths University, 2023
Barbican Young Poets, Barbican, 2024

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Film - feature
  • Film - short
  • Literature
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • Other
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - drama

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Music - Singing
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Producing
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Working with young people
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

German, Zulu, Xhosa

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