Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu

How to Make Choices

Are you a theatre maker curious or passionate about the art of directing? How does one make conceptual choices around design? Staging and performance? Join renowned experimental theatre director Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu in an exploration of a director’s process before and during a rehearsal process.

About Your Instructor

Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu

Mumbi is an acclaimed theatre creator and director raised in Kenya and Victoria, BC and based in Toronto. She is the Artistic Director of Obsidian Theatre, Canada’s leading creator for Black Art as well as Founder/Artistic director for the experimental theatre company IFT (It’s A Freedom Thing Theatre) Theatre.

Recent directing credits include: Flex (Obsidian/ Crows), Three Sisters (Obsidian/Soulpepper), Is God Is (Obsidian/Canadian Stage/Necessary Angel) Cast Iron (Obsidian/Factory), 21 Black Futures (Obsidian/CBC Arts), Trout Stanley (Factory Theatre), Sizwe Banzi is Dead, The Brothers Size, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Soulpepper Theatre), Post Democracy (Tarragon Theatre), We are Proud to Present (UofT Scarborough), and Oraltorio: A Theatrical Mixtape for (Obsidian Theatre/Soulpepper).

Upcoming: a profoundly affectionate devotion to someone (noun), Obsidian/Tarragon, How to Catch Creation (Obsidian/Soulpepper/Nightwood).

Mumbi is also the recipient of many awards including a Canadian Screen Award, a Dora Award, a Toronto Theatre Critics Award, a Pauline McGibbon Award and a Mallory Gilbert Protege Award.