ERY NZARAMBA
Ery Nzaramba left Rwanda to settle in Belgium in 1994. Ten years later he moved to the UK for an acting career. In 2014 Ery started working with director Peter Brook and long-time collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne, featuring in world tours of Battlefield and The Suit. Ery has been awarded two Grants for the Arts by Arts Council England and an Arvon Grant for his writing. He has written and directed short films; Split/Mixed is his first piece written for theatre. He wrote the first draft in 2013 and was invited to perform it in New York, Berlin, and Belfast. The play continued to be developed and its current version premiered to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2016.
"Every time someone asks where I'm from, it's a reminder of how lucky and privileged I've been. In 1994 Rwanda was in the news for all the wrong reasons. It was being torn apart by a civil war and a genocide. Unlike millions of others who couldn't, my family escaped. Because we could. And we got all the support in the world because we were "refugees". But were we, really? Would I be able to look in the eye of one of the other millions of Rwandans who couldn't leave the country and say "I'm a refugee"? I've lived in Europe for nearly a quarter of a century now, and though I'm no longer a refugee, that question has continued to haunt me. So I decided to write Split/Mixed."
Praise for his work:
"Hilarious, harrowing and acutely moving...[An] essential, coruscating work" -**** The Stage
"An extraordinary one-man play (...) Split/Mixed is deeply moving, even harrowing at times. But it is also extremely funny... -www.wordswithjam.co.uk
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