Charles Mulekwa is from Uganda.
He has been practicing theater in different roles since 1983, and has been working at the National Theatre since 1992. He has gained international exposure through his work in Europe, the United States, and Africa.
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.
He is currently working on his thesis: Performing the Legacy of War in Uganda.
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