Tsepo wa Mamatu
Tsepo wa Mamatu (1980-) is an academic, drama lecturer, playwright, actor and director and visual artist.
Training
He studied drama at thew University of the Witwatersrand, obtaining a BA (Dramatic Art) in 2003, and a MA in African Literature and Film in 2007, with a thesis which critiqued the work of of filmmaker Leon Schuster, based on race and critical theory.
Career
He was a lecturer in the University of the Witwatersrand Drama Department for many years, later becoming a senior lecturer, and at one time deputy head. In 2013 however, he was expelled on account of numerous accusations of sexual misconduct brought by students, accusations he admitted to a year later on Twitter. This scandal led to his work being rejected for performance by the inaugural Cape Town Fringe Festival, and the National Arts Festival in 2014 - and a national discussion of the role of the artist, artistic integrity, and the intricacies of censorship.
His contribution as playwright
Author of 100% Zulu Boy, Stompie , Mbeki and Other Nightmares, Relativity and By My Grave (2014).
Awards
He was the 2009 Johannesburg Repertory Fellow
Sources
Eusebius McKaiser, The Star, March 4 2013
Pearlie Joubert, Times Live 3 March 2013[1]
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/tsepo-wa-mamatu/9/297/757
http://www.gradnet-db.wits.ac.za/pdf/WR%20Jan%202011%20sect4.pdf
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