We moved to Zimbabwe when I was five, some years after Zimbabwe had gained independence.
I want women and girls of African descent and of color to be able to not have to keep searching for stories about themselves.
If my work is on the stage, you can be rested assured I'm going to make use of it as a platform for activism as much as possible.
I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.
I often feel like a nutty professor, like I'm going to try this experiment and see if it works. My hypothesis is, people in the West can absorb African women stories without any shaken or stirred mixer. It can come directly from the source.
I work with writers whom I believe to be true storytellers. And because I'm a writer, I pay very keen attention to their vision. I find that so fueling creatively because, in telling those stories, you use everything you've got. You come away with battle scars. It's gratifying and invigorating.
