Phala O. Phala

The Centre for the Less Good Idea (South Africa)

Phala Ookeditse Phala is the Animateur at The Centre for the Less Good Idea, an interdisciplinary incubator space for the arts, based in Maboneng, Johannesburg. He is a multi-award-winning theatre-maker and director whose works have won awards in South Africa, USA, Czech Republic and Australia. He holds a Masters in Dramatic Arts from Wits University. His works champion emotional and psychologically stimulating storytelling as a uniquely African aesthetic. His focus and interest are on methodologies of making and creating work in ways that collapse and disrupt conventional norms.