Tonderai Munyevu
Writer / Director
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
Tonderai Munyevu is an actor, writer and director for stage, screen and radio. Amongst his many critically acclaimed performances as an actor are Two Gentlemen Of Verona or Vakomana vaviri veZimbabwe (Two Gents/ Shakespeare’s Globe), Sizwe Banzi Is Dead at the Young Vic (and tour) and Black Men Walking at the Royal Court (and tour) and his role as Peter in the film Something Nice From London (Latimer Films), he is the co-artistic director of Two Gents Productions.
Writing includes Mansfield Park (The Watermill); Mugabe, My Dad and Me (Brixton House, York Theatre Royal/ETT); The Moors (Tara Arts Theatre/ Two Gents Productions); Harare Files: How 700,000 People Lost Their Homes (written with Sarah Norman); Zhe [noun] Undefined (written with Antonia Kemi Coker and Chuck Mike); the short radio play A Tranquil Mind (BBC Radio 4) Blaccine: First Dose for Pitlochry Theatre Festival and various prose including The Visiting Hours; A Dispatch From Zimbabwe (Johannesburg Book of Reviews), Bullets (Team Angelica) and On James Baldwin (Queer Bible.) As a director Tonderai has directed for Talawa, Central School of Speech and Drama, Tara Arts and Watermill Theatre.
Mugabe, My Dad and Me won Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2022 and was shortlisted for The Alfred Fagon Award 2019. Tonderai is an Associate Artist at Tiata Fahodzi. He has been part of the Hightide’s “The Lighthouse” Writers Group, he has received the Peggy Ramsay Foundation Grant and is currently one of the Stockroom writers, a collective of theatre creatives working in-house at Stockroom in a writers room for theatre.
Tonderai is currently under commission to the RSC and Bolton Octagon.
In Development
Production | Company | Notes |
---|---|---|
UNTITLED COMMISSION | Bolton Octagon | |
THE ASCENSION OF GRACE MUGABE | ENOA programme supported by Snape Maltings and Theatre de Ville de Luxembourg | Dir: Elayce Ismail |
KING SOLOMON’S MINES | Royal Shakespeare Company | Dir: John R Wilkenson |
Theatre
Production | Company | Notes |
---|---|---|
THE INTIMACY TEST 2024 | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama | Writer / Director |
MANSFIELD PARK 2023 | Watermill Theatre | Co-Writer and Co-Director |
ALICE IN WONDERLAND 2023 | Liverpool Playhouse & Plymouth Theatre Royal | Co-Writer |
BLACCINE 2023 | Pitlochry Theatre | Director w. Debbie Hannan |
I, JACQUES 2023 | Hampton Court Palace | Writer |
CINDERELLA 2023 | Lyric Hammersmith | Director |
HOW A CITY CAN SAVE A WORLD 2022 | Sheffield Crucible | Co-Writer |
MUGABE, MY DAD AND ME 2021 - 2022 | English Touring Theatre, York Theatre Royal and Brixton House | Writer |
BALTIMORE 2020 | Central School of Speech and Drama | Director |
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 2019 | Tara Arts Theatre | Co-Director |
THE MOORS 2018 | Tara Arts Theatre | Writer |
ZHE: NOUN [UNDEFINED] 2013 | Collective Artists / Soho Theatre | Writer |
HARARE FILES: HOW SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE LOST THEIR HOMES 2009 | Harare International Festival of The Arts | Writer |
MAGESTI 2009 | Harare International Festival Of The Arts | Co-Writer |
Radio
Production | Company | Notes |
---|---|---|
THE LAST CHIHORO 2023 | BBC RADIO 4 | Writer |
BLACCINE 2023 | Stockroom and Pitlochry Theatre | Writer |
MUGABE MY DAD AND ME 2021 | Audible | Writer |
THE TRANQUIL MINDS 2015 | BBC Radio 4 | Writer |
Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2022 for Mugabe My Dad and Me
Shortlisted for The Alfred Fagon Award 2019 for Mugabe My Dad and Me
Antonio Awards Nomination Best Audio Theatre 2022 for Mugabe My Dad and Me