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Charles Mulekwa (Uganda) has been practicing theater in different roles since 1983, and worked at the National Theatre from 1992 to 2003. He has been involved in many cultural exchange projects, and has gained international exposure through his work in Europe, the United States, and Africa. He attended the Royal Court Theatre, Royal National Theatre, Sundance Theatre Lab, New York Theatre Workshop, and the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, and worked on a number of radio plays with BBC. In 1998, the British Council and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation granted him a joint scholarship for an MA in Playwriting at Birmingham University, where he wrote the play A Time of Fire. In 2003 he earned a Ford Foundation International Fellowship and joined Brown University, where he is a PhD candidate of Theatre and Performance Studies.  In 2005 he served as the Ugandan consultant to the director of the movie The Last King of Scotland.  He is currently working on his thesis, Performing the Legacy of War in Uganda.

September 05, 2008
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