Tonderai Munyevu
Stockroom Artist
Tonderai Munyevu is an actor, writer and director for stage, screen and radio.
Amongst his many critically acclaimed performances as an actor are Two Gentlemen Of Verona or Vakomana vaviri veZimbabwe (Two Gents/ Shakespeare’s Globe), Sizwe Banzi Is Dead at the Young Vic (and tour) and Black Men Walking at the Royal Court (and tour) and his role as Peter in the film Something Nice From London (Latimer Films). He is the co-artistic director of Two Gents Productions.
His writing includes Mugabe, My Dad and Me (York Theatre Royal/ETT), The Moors (Tara Arts Theatre/ Two Gents Productions), Harare Files; How 700,000 People Lost Their Homes (written with Sarah Norman), Zhe [noun] Undefined (written with Antonia Kemi Coker and Chuck Mike) at Soho Theatre; the short radio play A Tranquil Mind (BBC Radio 4) and various prose pieces including The Visiting Hours; A Dispatch From Zimbabwe (Johannesburg Book of Reviews), Bullets (Team Angelica) and On James Baldwin (Queer Bible.)
He has been shortlisted for The Alfred Fagon Award 2019, is part of the HighTide Writers Group, and has received The Peggy Ramsay Foundation Grant for his latest play Black Farce.
Tonderai says – “I am honoured and thrilled to be part of the Stockroom. To be aligned with other varied creatives, putting our minds together in response to these very significant times we are living through. I know the work will be rigorous and groundbreaking.”