Tonderai Munyevu

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.