Karishma Bhagani
Karishma is a director, producer, dramaturg and scholar. Born and bred in Mombasa, Kenya, Karishma has a keen interest in expanding the arts sector within East Africa. Her research interests include understanding the political, spiritual and mythological seeds of performance tradition around the African continent.
Karishma is currently a fellow of the Georgetown Lab for Global Performance and Politics and also serves as the associate artistic director of the Tebere Arts Foundation in Uganda and the associate producing director of the Nairobi Musical Theatre Initiative in Kenya. She is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
