Bobby Rodwell works as a producer and writer in theatre, documentary film and radio focusing. Also, she is a funder and a director of the company mehlo-maya (eye-to-the-sun). Bobby studied Theatre, Social Anthropology and African History.
After hearing stories of survivors of human rights violations, she uses those personal testimonies now in theatre for social change on socio-political issue across the continent. Using this approach Bobby has created The Story I am About to Tell on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. Also, she made Frontieres which is about personal testimonies on migration into South Africa. In her performance Flipping the Script survivors told about their experiences with gender-based violence.
Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, and teacher. He rose to prominence in the 1980s, a turbulent period in South African history. Since his debut Horns for Hondo, he has published several poetry collections, including Head on Fire (2012) and A Half Century Thing (2015), parts of which have been translated into German. He is also the author of poetic novels such as Bird-Monk Seding (2018), which won the University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English in 2017 and was shortlisted for the prestigious Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize in 2018.
He has also written screenplays, released audio recordings, and written for various productions. His plays are performed all over the world. His documentary Word Down the Line premiered in 2014.
