Awarded Best Actress at the 2025 Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees, Buhle Ngaba is a multi-award-winning actor whose work centres on performance, embodiment, and storytelling. Early in her career, she starred in the world premiere of John Kanis’ Missing, touring internationally and earning Best Supporting Actress nominations at both the Fleur du Cap and Naledi Theatre Awards. She wrote her first play Swan Song during her time at the Royal Shakespeare Company(Stratford) and since its premiere ; Ngaba has won two South Kanna Theatre Awards including Best Upcoming Artist. Later, the production was adapted into a screenplay streamed globally during the course of the National Arts Festival 2020 and the production also boasts sold out seasons at Suidooster Kunstefees (2021), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, 2022) and Basel Theater Festival (Switzerland, 2022). Ngaba continues to garner acclaim for performances in works such as Nadia Davids’ What Remains and Bridling. In 2024, she was awarded the Market Theatre Barney Simon Residency, where she developed her latest production, BLING! which premiered to critical praise at the 2024 Vienna Festival and toured to Afrovibes Festival (Amsterdam) in 2025. BLING! Returns home to South Africa in 2026.