Join internationally-renowned playwright, performance poet and director Ntombizodwa Nyoni for an insightful workshop exploring writing for performance and how to find your creative voice.
This workshop will cover the technicals of writing – rhythm, pace, language, as well as how to craft your words for a more compelling performative offering. Are you looking to make your writing pack more of a punch? Or trying to hone your individual writing voice? Join us at Theatr Clwyd for an inspiring workshop to help expand your practice to the next level.
Ntombizodwa Nyoni is a Zimbabwean-born playwright, librettist, screenwriter and director.Her debut play, Boi Boi is Dead won the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme in 2014. It was also a finalist for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2014/15. Since, her plays have been produced in the UK, France, Germany, USA, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
In 2025, she premiered two productions: Tears are not Meant to Stay Inside, an opera for Buxton International Festival and Liberation at Manchester International Festival with Royal Exchange.
Ntombizodwa’s plays are published by Bloomsbury. She has lectured in poetry and theatre since 2018. She is currently a Lecturer in Scriptwriting at Manchester Metropolitan University and an associate dramaturg for Tiata Fahodzi and Fifth Word Theatre.
She has written two radio plays, Love Again (BBC Radio 3) and A Khoisan Woman (Drama on 3); and three short films: Mahogany, Notes on Being a Lady and the award winning, The Ancestors (BBC Films and BFI Network). Ntombizodwa wrote on Netflix’s spin-off series, Castlevania: Nocturne.
Ntombizodwa was an international fellow on Oxbelly’s inaugural Episodic Program in Greece. She is a BAFTA Connect member and was awarded Early Development Funding from the BFI for her feature.
