Mildred Moyo

For the National:

Training

Mildred Moyo is currently enrolled on a scholarship at Rose Bruford College in MA Light in Performance Course.

Theatre

For the National: Dixon and Daughters

In London’s West End: Elf The Musical (as shadow to lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe) and The Choir of Man (LX tech and operator).

Recent work includes: The Famous Five: A New Musical (as associate lighting designer to Johanna Town) for Theatr Clwyd and Chichester; LX tech at the Royal Opera House.

In 2011 Moyo founded Phenomenal Lighting and Power Solutions, the first female-owned lighting company in Zimbabwe. In 2019, she established the first lighting masterclass series in Zimbabwe for young people, with a particular focus on disadvantaged girls and women. In 2020, due to COVID-19, the classes were moved to Zoom and hosted some of the most renowned lighting designers from across the world, including Paule Constable, Hansjörg Schmidt, Michael Curry, Bamanye Yeko, Patrick Woodroffe and Erich Bertti. In 2021, she founded a lighting workshop called ‘Lights Out’ which toured Zimbabwe and culminated in a three-day inaugural lighting festival, ‘Let there be light’. The festival was attended by international lighting designers namely Bamanye Yeko, from Capetown South Africa and Micheal Foster from Dell’Arte International, California, USA.

(Published April 2023)