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Mumba Dodwell

Mumba trained as an actor at Arts University Bournemouth, she then later joined the Intro to Directing Course in 2017/2018 at the Young Vic Theatre. After been awarded the National Youth Theatre Bryan Forbes Assistant Director position in 2019-2020,
she is now an Associate Artist. Mumba is one of the Co-Founders of the Diversity School,
an organisation that was set up to hold drama schools accountable for inclusivity training for all. 

 

Awards and nominations

2019/2020 OFFIE Nomination for Direction, People's Ensemble,
Sound Design and Costume Design for Great Expectations. 

Productions

2023

SLAVE PLAY
(Resident Director) 

Director: Robert O'Hara
Noël Coward Theatre, West End

DEATH OF ENGLAND
(Associate Director)
Director: Clint Dyer
National Theatre
 
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES
(Assistant Director)
Director: Whitney White
Almeida Theatre
 
OTHELLO
(Associate Director)
Director: Clint Dyer
National Theatre
 

2022

BOY/GIRL/BOY/GIRL

Playing Up 2022, National Youth Theatre Workshop

INTIMATE APPAREL

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

2021

THE ANCESTORS
 

National Youth `Theatre & English Heritage

2020

LITTLE REVOLUTION

University of Bournemouth

2019

GREAT EXPECTATIONS
(Offie Nominated)

National Youth Theatre
Southwark Playhouse

2018

TALES FROM THE GARDEN

John Thaw Studio, Actors Centre

BLACK ICE

Theatre503

ADDICT

Cockpit Theatre

BLACK BOYS DON'T CRY

Theatre Royal Stratford East, Scratch Night 

 

 

 

ASSISTANT & ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR 

DEATH OF ENGLAND: CLOSING TIME

Director: Clint Dyer
National Theatre

THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES

Director: Whitney White
Almeida Theatre

OTHELLO

Director: Clint Dyer
National Theatre

DADDY

Director: Danya Taymor
Almeida Theatre

OTHELLO

Director: Miranda Cromwell
National Youth Theatre/Royal & Derngate/Bolsover Castle

ROCKETS AND BLUE LIGHTS

Director: Miranda Cromwell
Royal Exchange Theatre, Lockdown Festival, BBC Radio 3&4 & National Theatre

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Director: Matt Harrison
National Youth Theatre

FRANKENSTEIN

Director: Emily Grey
National Youth Theatre

THE COURT MUST HAVE A QUEEN

Director: Sam Curtis Lindsay
Hampton Court Palace