An Interview with Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko
In this episode we have the pleasure of speaking with playwright, poet, and fiction essayist Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko!
Trans, queer, non-binary, Tanzanian-American, poet-playwright-fiction-essayist NICK HADIKWA MWALUKO: Plays include: 37, S.T.A.R: Marsha P. Johnson; two queer African trilogies Waafrika and Waafrika 123; the QTPOC trans masculine THEY/THEM/THEIRS (TBA/Theater Bay Area); the queer apocalypse Homeless in the AfterLife; Blueprint for an African Lesbian; SH/Eroe; Asymmetrical We; Brotherly Love; Trailer Park Tundra; Once A Man Always A Man; Mama Afrika; Queering MacBeth; Life Is About the Kill; That Day God Visits You; Ata; To Dyke Trans; Gayze and many more. Residencies include: Nationally accredited Resident Playwright Initiative (RPI) with nationally acclaimed Playwrights’ Foundation; Resilience and Development (R&D) Writers’ Lab with Crowded Fire Theater Company in San Francisco; New York City’s EWG (Emerging Writers’ Group) at the Public Theater sponsored by Time Warner; New York City’s Groundbreakers Group, Djerassi Artist Residency in northern California, Freedom Train Productions, Ragged Wing Ensemble and more. Nick’s essay “XXYX Queer Africa: More Invisible”, written as a companion piece to Nick’s queer POC play Waafrika 1-2-3, is currently in Best American Essays 2020. Nick’s other essay was nominated for a Pushcart Award (results currently pending). Nick is a 2018 finalist for Africa’s Gerald Kraak Award; a two-time recipient of the Creativity Fund issued by the Public Theater and Time Warner, and a 2017 Spring grantee of a Theatre Bay Area (TBA) Individual Artist Cash grant. Nick graduated Magna Cum Laude at Columbia University in the City of New York for undergrad and completed an MFA at Columbia University in the City of New York while also a Point Scholar, the nation’s largest LGBTQIA academic scholarship fund, and was awarded a Columbia University Fellowship at the same time. Nick was also at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop but dropped out.
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