Sifiso Mabena is a Zimbabwean, NY based, multidisciplinary theatre maker who is a skilled actor, singer, puppeteer, educator, playwright and deviser. Her work often explores displacement in diasporic communities, history, identity and femininity. 

Credits: KLII (Walker Arts Center; Redcat; Under the Radar ’23), Mud/Drowning (Mabou Mines), Riddle of the Trilobites (Flint Rep; New Victory Theatre), Red Hills (En Garde Arts), The Sprezzaturameron (BAC), Shoot Don’t Talk (Labapalooza, St Ann’s Warehouse). International: Winter’s Tale (National Arts Festival, SA), The Comeback (HIFA, ZW). As a playwright, Sifiso has collaborated with The Royal Court Theatre and the British Council (ZW). Her work has been performed at the Harare International Festival of the Arts (Winner HIFADirect 2011), Intwasa Festival and the Chimanimani Festival. Recently, she premiered her show [sunflower] at Dixon Place (June 2022). Sifiso is a New Victory Labworks 2022/23 artist.

www.fisopearlmabena.com   IG: @fisozozomab

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Sifiso Mabena

The Real Real

Work-in-Progress Showing
Sunday, June 18 @ 7:00 PM

A collage of fiction, personal experiences, AI-generated material, and puppetry that asks questions about who has the power to tell a story, who owns it, and how to claim autonomy in a content obsessed world

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