Charles Mulekwa
Charles Mulekwa, is from Uganda and has been practicing theatre there in different roles since 1983 and worked at the National Theatre from 1992 - 2003. He attended the Royal Court Theatre, Royal National Theatre, Sundance Theatre Lab, New York Theatre Workshop, and Iowa International Writers Program, and worked on a number of Radio plays with the 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 for the Idi Amin movie The Last King of Scotland.
