Tariro Mavondo

Performing Artist & Writer

Tariro Mavondo is a multi-disciplinary artist and performer born in Zimbabwe raised in Frankston. As an actor she has worked with Red Stitch, Black Swan Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Metanoia Theatre, The Street Theatre Canberra, RL Productions, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Co, Belvoir and Riverside Theatre. Tariro also works across film and television (Other People’s Problems ABC, Winners and Losers, Shakespeare Republic, Sisters) and won best actress for her role in Arrivals at the NYC Picture Start Film Festival and best performance in Home at the Dungog Film Festival.

Tariro graduated with a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts from Victorian College of the Arts, where she was awarded the Irene Mitchell Award in 2011. Tariro is an awarding winning spoken word artist. Her piece ‘The Dangers of a Single Story’ will be part of an anthology ‘Growing Up African in Australia’ published by Black Inc Books (2019). Tariro received scholarships to attend Expressive Arts Therapy training (Tamalpa Institute, California 2015, 2016), Decoloniality Summer School (University SA, Pretoria South Africa, 2017), and Decolonising Knowledge and Power Summer School (Center of Study and Investigation for Decolonial Dialogues, Barcelona 2019). Tariro is the founder of Africa’s Got Talent Australia and a Co-Founder of Centre of Poetics and Justice. She is currently performing in Bell Shakespeare’s production of Titus Andronicus until September.