Portfolio · 2026
Actor · Director · Teacher
Kilifi · Nairobi · 2026
“I am drawn to the voice and the body — the two instruments that tell the truth before words can.”
I am a theatre maker working across acting, directing, and teaching. My practice lives at the meeting point of voice and physicality — I believe the truest performances come from the body first, from characters fully inhabited rather than played from the outside.
I fell in love with performance as a child, in short skits at church. High school opened the door to the Kenya National Drama Festivals, and in 2017 I joined Youth Theatre Kenya as an actor. The company has shaped me ever since. I have moved through it as actor, stage manager, and assistant director, and in 2026 I was selected as its Assistant Artistic Director.
Alongside YTK, I teach drama and mathematics at Kivukoni International School in Kilifi, where I have also directed six student productions since 2024 — from primary-school plays to full musicals. The rhythm of teaching and directing in parallel keeps me honest. Young performers ask the questions professionals have stopped asking.
My formal training is dual-track: a BSc in Mathematics and Economics (2017–2022), alongside performance training with Disney on Broadway in 2021 and the Broadway Arts Community workshop in 2022 under Chryssie Whitehead. I draw most from Stanislavski — his insistence on naturalism and lived, individual experience maps onto the kind of African stories I want to tell: specific, grounded, unromanticised.
If it moves you, it should also ask something of you.
Six years. Five roles. Across stages, classrooms, and community spaces.
My directing philosophy is rooted in the belief that theatre should be both emotionally truthful and socially purposeful. I aim to create work that resonates with audiences while asking them to reflect, question, and engage with the world around them.
Critical Conversations Association
A transformative piece of community theatre, performed in Maa across northern Kenya. Part of CCA's outreach programme.
2026
Critical Conversations Association
A transformative piece of community theatre, performed in Maa across northern Kenya. Part of CCA's outreach programme.
Kivukoni School
A full student production at Kivukoni International School.
2026
Kivukoni School
A full student production at Kivukoni International School.
Kivukoni School
Devised primary-school production.
2026
Kivukoni School
Devised primary-school production.
Critical Conversations Association
Maa-language community theatre premiere.
2025
Critical Conversations Association
Maa-language community theatre premiere.
Kivukoni School
Full musical with Kivukoni high-school students.
2024
Kivukoni School
Full musical with Kivukoni high-school students.
Kivukoni School
Year 3 and 4 production.
2024
Kivukoni School
Year 3 and 4 production.
Assisting sharpened my reading of scripts, my instinct for shaping a scene, and my appreciation of design. I have worked most closely with Jazz Moll, whose process has shaped my own.
Dir. Jazz Moll · YTK
2025
Dir. Jazz Moll · YTK
Dir. Jazz Moll
2023
Dir. Jazz Moll
Dir. Lizzie Jago · Kivukoni
2021
Dir. Lizzie Jago · Kivukoni
Dir. Jazz Moll · Kivukoni
2019
Dir. Jazz Moll · Kivukoni
Dir. Jazz Moll
Large-scale production. 60 teenagers. July and October stagings.
2022
Dir. Jazz Moll
Large-scale production. 60 teenagers. July and October stagings.
I began as an actor, and it is still the practice underneath everything else.
Dir. Chryssie Whitehead
Intensive performance training in voice, movement, and scene work.
2022
Dir. Chryssie Whitehead
Intensive performance training in voice, movement, and scene work.
Dir. Jazz Moll · YTK
Extended run across several stagings.
2021–2022
Dir. Jazz Moll · YTK
Extended run across several stagings.
Dir. Kevin Winebold
International performance programme.
2021
Dir. Kevin Winebold
International performance programme.
Dir. Jazz Moll · YTK
Original Kenyan musical.
2019
Dir. Jazz Moll · YTK
Original Kenyan musical.
Dir. Jazz Moll & Mimi Mutahi · YTK
My first professional theatre production. An original story about Kenyan independence, and my first encounter with original Kenyan musicals. It set the course for everything that followed.
2018
Dir. Jazz Moll & Mimi Mutahi · YTK
My first professional theatre production. An original story about Kenyan independence, and my first encounter with original Kenyan musicals. It set the course for everything that followed.
I teach to create space. My approach is simple: learners are seen and heard, given the room to speak truthfully in their own voices before they are asked to perform anyone else's.
Mathematics, Drama & Theatre
ongoing
Mathematics, Drama & Theatre
Acting, performance, puppetry, movement, improvisation
annual
Acting, performance, puppetry, movement, improvisation