Nick Mwaluko

Nick Nanna Hadikwa Mwaluko (Resident Playwright) was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania but raised in neighboring Kenya, east Africa. Mwaluko worked several years with Reuters News Agency in Kenya and New York City before attending Columbia University on scholarship and fellowship, graduating magnum cum laude. Mwaluko is currently a Point Scholar and attending Columbia University's graduate MFA (Masters in Fine Arts) program for playwriting. Mwaluko has written four epics, several full length and one act plays focusing on queer, black issues among other topics.


AUGUST 1-2, 2007:
Are Women Human?
by Nick Mwaluko
Director: Alicia Dhyana House
@ South Oxford Space
138 S. Oxford Street in Fort Greene, BK


What if as a child you were told by a deity that you were meant to be the opposite sex? Could you be courageous for your god or goddess in the face of intolerance? Are Women Human? by Nick Mwaluko (Columbia MFA) is a play about one person's struggle for acceptance and love.


Alicia Dhyana House is a director, choreographer, and curator. Her work has been seen at Atlantic Stage 2, HERE, Proshanzsky Auditorium, The Looking Glass Theatre, Brown Bag Theatre (San Francisco) and the American Theatre of Actors. In 2005 & 2006, she curated Spoken Word: Expression in the Right Direction at the BAM Harvey Theater for over three thousand NYC teens. The show featured award-winning playwright and actor Will Power and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. Alicia has taught theatre, movement, and mask making in the U.S. and in Asia for the Asia PeopleÕs Theatre Festival Society and ADA in Hong Kong, the Stone Commune in Macau, and Thammasat University in Thailand. Alicia is an MFA directing candidate at Columbia University.

2007 Resident Playwrights

Jesse Cameron Alick
Andrea E. Davis
yvonne fly onakeme etaghene
Andre Lancaster
Nick Mwaluko