Mpume Mthombeni Author

Neil Coppen is an award-winning playwright who lives between the cities of Durban and Johannesburg where he works as a writer, director and designer. He won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Drama in 2011 and was nominated on the 2011 Mail & Guardian’s 200 most influential Young South Africans. His play Abnormal Loads won the 2012 Naledi Award for Best South African Script. Other works include Tree Boy, Sugar Daddies and Animal Farm.

Mpume Mthombeni is an award-winning stage and film actor, theatre-maker, researcher and facilitator from Umlazi, Durban, South Africa. She has taken on multiple roles over the years in theatre, radio, film and television, and received international acclaim for her performance in Tin Bucket Drum which she toured to New York, USA.

Kira Erwin is a sociologist and Senior Researcher at the Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa.