Samuel Ravengai

regional managing editor

Samuel Ravengai is Zimbabwean born South African based theatre director/auteur. He has a doctorate in Drama from the University of Cape Town where he also got his MA in Theatre and Performance (Directing). Ravengai is a board member of the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT), where he works closely with the African Caribbean Theatre and Performance Working Group, where he is one of the founding members. He is currently Associate Professor and Head of Department of Theatre and Performance at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is particularly interested in the interconnection of race, nation, empire, migration, and ethnicity with cultural production. He has published widely in various international journals and book chapters. Apart from being an academic, he is a director and theatre maker and has over twenty productions to his name since he started directing in 1996. His directing philosophy is guided by the value Africans place on the centrality of the body as a nucleus of performance.