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Noma Yini is a Johannesburg-based company that is passionate about harnessing the power of story and theatre to inspire, educate, and entertain. They create innovative productions with a global footprint. Work that not only entertains but sparks meaningful conversations and fosters a deeper understanding of ourselves and our world.

Director

Phala Ookeditse Phala was the animateur at The Centre for the Less Good Idea, an interdisciplinary incubator space for the arts, based in Maboneng, Johannesburg. He is a multi-award-winning ‘storiyer’ whose works have won awards in South Africa, the United States of America, the Czech Republic and Australia. He holds a Masters in Dramatic Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. His works champion emotional and psychologically-stimulating storytelling as a uniquely African aesthetic. His focus and interest are on methodologies of making and creating work in ways that collapse and disrupt conventional norms.

Playwright & Performer

Tembisa-born Tony Bonani Miyambo is a BA Dramatic Arts graduate from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He currently works as a freelancer in the television, film and theatre industries. His credits include numerous award-winning theatre productions, some of which have toured the United States of America, the Czech Republic, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. His highlights include performing his one-man show The Cenotaph of Dan Wa Moriri at the Market and Playhouse theatres. Winner of the Marta award for Best Actor at the SETKÁNÍ/ENCOUNTER festival in Brno, Czech Republic, Tony was also the recipient of the Brett Goldin bursary in 2014 and studied with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon, United Kingdom.