Nomakhwezi Becker is a South African – German interdisciplinary artist, creating through theatre and poetry performance, the written word, storytelling, and film. Her practice listens and responds to the call of collaborative finding, reclaiming and creating home in the in-between spaces as a woman raised by multiple homes, heritages and languages.
Having taken her first steps on stage, she likes to believe it was a sign that this would be her home. Trained as a theater actress, she has since expanded to film acting and as a playwright. She was awarded an Ovation Fringe-Award at NAF 2019 for a collaborative theatre piece alongside Nomcebisi Moyikwa, When Coasts Meet and was nominated at the Simon Sabela Film & Television Awards 2020 for Best Newcomer Actress. Becker’s poetry has led her to local and international platforms such as Poetry Africa, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), Funda Fest (Rhode Island), Quay Words (UK) and MODHAFEST 2020. She is currently completing her MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths University of London.