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MELONIE MAZIBUKO

"The role of women in different cultures has always fascinated me. I am interested in how women are perceived in developing countries like South Africa, and how that perception may (and may not) vary in first world countries. What began to emerge in the writing of this play was a question: how might women be treated if their one 'universal' role - that of mother – was taken away from them?"

     Melonie Mazibuko is a theatre maker and performer with a degree in Musical Theatre from Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. ​​Her recent performance productions include Parade (Lucille Frank), Ragtime (Emma Goldman), Urinetown (Little Becky), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Princess Puffer), The Tempest - directed by Cressida Brown (Antonia), and The Gender Project (Iago - Othello). She recently devised a two-person show with Sifiso Mazibuko, !ke e: /xarra //ke - A New African Folk Tale, about their home country of South Africa, which was performed as part of the Lab Series in November 2013. Melonie is currently in her third and final year of the Master of Fine Arts in Acting Program, focused on actor-driven new works creation, at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

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