Sibuyiselo Sbuja Dywili
Sibuyiselo Sbuja Dywili (2000) is a published playwright, as well as an award- winning performer on screen and stage. His 2021 play Ganga Nyoko! Inzima Nyoko published by Junkets Press and in which he performed, won the Zabalaza Festival’s Best Production, Best Actor and was nominated for three Fleur du Cap Awards, winning Best New Director.
In 2021, he was invited by Lara Foot of the Baxter Theatre, to participate in Masambe Writing Residency, where he was supported while writing his second play Ngxi! He holds an Advanced Diploma in Filmmaking, with majors in directing, screenwriting and producing. Sbuja had the distinct privilege of being taught Musical Theatre Writing by the legendary David Kramer at the Baxter Theatre.
The Jakes Gerwel Foundation and Passa Porta international house of literature in Brussels residency: an interview with Sibuyiselo Sbuja Dywili
2024-03-23"And secondly, I keep asking this: why should anyone bother to read or come watch a play written by an unknown young man who lives in the outskirts of Cape Town, where everything is far from him and the city lights are supposedly fantasies? And who lives every day looking up hoping to see a billboard of a role model in the township, but only gets to see the walking, unsung heroes who once tried and failed, the many who sought stability and did everything right, yet still crashed?"