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Thuli Dumakude
Thuli Dumakude | |
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| Birth name | Thuli Daisy Dumakude |
| Origin | Lamontville, South Africa |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer, composer, vocal coach |
| Instrument | Vocals |
Musical artist
Thuli Daisy Dumakude[1] is a South-African-born singer-songwriter and Broadway actress.
She is best known for having originated the title role in 1983's Poppie Nongena, for which she received the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play in 1984.[2]
Theater life
Dumakude was born in Lamontville.
Before moving to Broadway, she was an actress in South Africa.
Thuli dumakude biography definition
She performed as KaMadonsela (Lady Macbeth) in a Zulu adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, a show that also took her to Chicago. She moved to Broadway in the early 1980s, when she was cast as the title character in Elsa Joubert's Poppie Nongena, an English translation of her book Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena.
As Poppie, Dumakude traveled to London, Toronto, Au