Gideon Jeph Wabvuta is a writer and solo actor who works in film, theater, and TV. His current focus is the adaptation of African novels into films and tv shows. Gideon’s ultimate artistic goal is to create works of art that will speak of and about his people to the world. “The story of our people shall not be told by he who held a gun to our face”.
Gideon Jeph Wabvuta is a writer and solo actor who works in film, theater, and TV. His current focus is the adaptation of African novels into films and tv shows. Gideon’s ultimate artistic goal is to create works of art that will speak of and about his people to the world. “The story of our people shall not be told by he who held a gun to our face”.
MFA Dramatic Writing, University of Southern California
BAA Hons Theater, University of Zimbabwe
MFA Dramatic Writing, University of Southern California
BAA Hons Theater, University of Zimbabwe
Family Riots was awarded the Distinguished Mention for the Rosa Parks and Lorraine Hansberry awards by the Kennedy Center in 2019. He also developed Master’s Shoe at the Almasi African Playwrights festival which saw him being invited to the Ojai Playwrights Conference by the Artistic Director Robert Egan. At Ojai 2015 he developed and performed his one man show Mbare Dreams which he again performed at the Revolutions Festival 2016 in Albuquerque New Mexico. Dzimbabwedande an adaptation of the longest Zimbabwean novel which he turned into a three-hour production and The Color of Blood at the Harare International Festival of the arts (HIFA). He has been featured at the premium festivals in Zimbabwe as a writer and actor. For television, he co-wrote and directed a T.V series YOU OWE ME which was flighted on national television. Currently, he is a writer’s assistant and researcher for a TV show to air on Hulu in 2020.
Family Riots was awarded the Distinguished Mention for the Rosa Parks and Lorraine Hansberry awards by the Kennedy Center in 2019. He also developed Master’s Shoe at the Almasi African Playwrights festival which saw him being invited to the Ojai Playwrights Conference by the Artistic Director Robert Egan. At Ojai 2015 he developed and performed his one man show Mbare Dreams which he again performed at the Revolutions Festival 2016 in Albuquerque New Mexico. Dzimbabwedande an adaptation of the longest Zimbabwean novel which he turned into a three-hour production and The Color of Blood at the Harare International Festival of the arts (HIFA). He has been featured at the premium festivals in Zimbabwe as a writer and actor. For television, he co-wrote and directed a T.V series YOU OWE ME which was flighted on national television. Currently, he is a writer’s assistant and researcher for a TV show to air on Hulu in 2020.