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NAME: Mbongeni Ngema
PROVINCE: ZN = kwaZulu-Natal
SKILLS: Producer, Playwright, Actor,
Singer, Composer, Director, Instructor,
Producer,
LEVEL: 5 = Over 30 years in the Industry
BIRTHDAY: Jun 01 (Gemini)




AWARDS
A=Award
N=Nomination
2005 A: Best Musical Director/
Score/Arrangement
(Sarafina)
Naledi TH
Awards 2004
1996 A: Supporting Actor
'Asinamali'
FNB Vita Awards
  N: Composer
'Lion King' Movie Soundtrack
Grammy Awards
  A: Multi-Platinum Disc
over 6mil copies sold of 'Lion King' Album
 
  A: Gold & Platinum Disc
'African Solution', the single
 
  A: Best Soundtrack
'Magic at 4am'
FNB Asami
Awards
  A: Best Original Cast Recording
'Sarafina'
Tony Awards
  A: 11 Awards for 'Sarafina' NAACP Image
Awards
  N: 5 Tony's for 'Sarafina' Tony Awards
  A: Various International Awards
'Asinamali'
 
N: Best Director 'Asinamali' Tony Awards
  A: Various International Awards
'Woza Albert'
 
  A: Various Gold Discs for music  

TRAINING/
QUALIFICATIONS
1970's Several years with Gibson Kente

BUSINESS:
Director & Founder of 'Committed Artists'
Manager: 'KZN Music House'
Manager: 'Mbongeni Ngema Records'




THEATRE
A=Award
N=Nomination
2009 Dec 'Lion of the East' as Writ, Prod
& Dir
2005 'The Zulu' as Director
2004 'Sarafina' as Director &
Musical
Director(A)
2006 'Bhambada The Freedom Fighter' as Writ, Prod
& Dir
2005 'House of Shaka' as Writ, Prod
& Dir
  'The Zulu'
at (Wiesbaden TH
Market TH,
Playhouse Drama,)
as Writ, Prod
& Dir
1997 'Maria-Maria'
at (Wiesbaden Germany
Playhouse Drama
& World Tour)
as Writ, Prod
& Dir
1996 'Asinamali' as Actor (A)
1995 'Best of Mbongeni Ngema' as Writ, Prod
& Dir
1995 'Mama'
at (Playhouse Drama
& World Tour)
as Writer,
Composer,
Dir, Chor
  'Magic At 4am'
at (Jhb Civic TH
& World Tour)
as Writ, Prod
& Dir (A)
1990 'Sheila's Day'
co-Writer:Duma kaNdlovu
at (Crossroads TH USA)
as Writ, Prod
& Dir
1990 'Township Fever'
at (Market TH
& World Tour)
as Writ, Prod
& Dir(A)
  'Sarafina'
at (Market TH
Lincoln Centre,
& 2 years on Broadway)
as Writ, Prod
& Dir(A)
  'Asinamali'
at (Market TH,
Roger Furman TH, New York,
World & SA Tour)
as Writ, Prod
& Dir (A)
  'Woza Albert'
at (Market TH
& World Tour)
as Writer
& Actor
  'People Are Living There' as Actor


MUSIC
A=Award
N=Nomination
1997 'Woza My Fohloza' the Album as Composer
Producer
1994 'African Solution'
single with Mfiliseni Magubane
as Composer
& Producer
'Felicia on E-TV' Theme Song as Composer
& Producer

HIGHLIGHTS
2001
Name Engraved at entrance of Durban City Hall
with Oliver Tambo, Miriam Makeba, Nelson Mandela, and others
1998
'Walk of Fame' induction in front of Lucille Lortel Theatre
in Manhattan, New York as one of the greatest TH writers of the centuary

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