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Nthabiseng Malaka

Nthabiseng Malaka

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Nthabiseng Malaka

Nthabiseng Malaka is a South African theatre-maker whose focus is scenography and costume design. Malaka graduated from University of the Witswaterand, Johannesburg with a Bachelor in Dramatic Arts. She is currently the resident designer at The Centre for The Less Good Idea and has worked in numerous theatre productions across the different theatre spaces in Gauteng including Market theatre, Joburg theatre, and Soweto theatre.

In 2023 Malaka was chosen as one of the three set designers to be part of the international program in collaboration with Scenography Today, Opera for Peace and UNITA for the future, here she is being mentored by Christian Schmidt.

In early 2020, Malaka was mentored by the internationally-renowned costume designer Greta Goiris. She then went on to design sets and costumes for Seasons 8, 9 and 10 of The Centre as well as to create Goraa Goreng?, a project that incorporated scenography as installation.

Through her work with theatre, she has received Naledi Theatre Award nominations for her costume design and set design work. Malaka was also costume designer for Disney’s The Magic Box since its first premiere in Bueno Aires, Argentina 2023. As part of the new production Selemo, Malaka works as a scenographer and costume designer in collaboration with the Neuköllner Oper and the Komische Oper Berlin.

As of January 2026

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