Arthur Kisenyi (born 1990) is a Ugandan actor, singer and musician. He
started professional acting in 2007 with Strange News, a project by
Norwegian music composer Rolf Wallin and Belgian Director Josse dePauw
about child soldiers in Africa.Arthur plays the former child soldier
in Rolf Wallin and Josse De Pauw's Strange News, a large multimedia
work including symphony orchestra, video and surround sound. Luckily
not a former child soldier himself, however, the cruel conflict in
neighbouring DR Congo, and Uganda's own history is all too real. Born
and raised in the Ugandan capital, he won the role among 90 young men
in a local audition at the age of 16. Shortly after he left for Oslo,
where Josse De Pauw created the role especially for him. He has since
the premiere with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007 performed
Strange News in a number of cities, among them Porto and Chicago,
Toronto, Brussels, Amsterdam, Stavanger, Birmingham, London among
others.He studied Drama at the Performing Arts and Film Department
Makerere University where his research was about the 'General Public's
perception of Theatre Artistes' with Bakayimbira Drama actors as his
case study. In his final year, he was selected the best play director
with his directing project of Nikolai Gogol's 'Marriage'. He was in
2012 contracted by Sharing Youth Centre Nsambya on behalf of the white
fathers to direct the play 'Loud Silence' which handled Child labor,
child trafficking and sex enslavement. He later on showed the same
play at Mbarara University of Science & Technology and Maryhill High
School Mbarara.He has directed and performed in Shakespeare’s King
Lear, Gogol’s The Government Inspector and African plays Like
Amanita, Betrayal in the city, Voice of the people, echoes of silence
among others.
started professional acting in 2007 with Strange News, a project by
Norwegian music composer Rolf Wallin and Belgian Director Josse dePauw
about child soldiers in Africa.Arthur plays the former child soldier
in Rolf Wallin and Josse De Pauw's Strange News, a large multimedia
work including symphony orchestra, video and surround sound. Luckily
not a former child soldier himself, however, the cruel conflict in
neighbouring DR Congo, and Uganda's own history is all too real. Born
and raised in the Ugandan capital, he won the role among 90 young men
in a local audition at the age of 16. Shortly after he left for Oslo,
where Josse De Pauw created the role especially for him. He has since
the premiere with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007 performed
Strange News in a number of cities, among them Porto and Chicago,
Toronto, Brussels, Amsterdam, Stavanger, Birmingham, London among
others.He studied Drama at the Performing Arts and Film Department
Makerere University where his research was about the 'General Public's
perception of Theatre Artistes' with Bakayimbira Drama actors as his
case study. In his final year, he was selected the best play director
with his directing project of Nikolai Gogol's 'Marriage'. He was in
2012 contracted by Sharing Youth Centre Nsambya on behalf of the white
fathers to direct the play 'Loud Silence' which handled Child labor,
child trafficking and sex enslavement. He later on showed the same
play at Mbarara University of Science & Technology and Maryhill High
School Mbarara.He has directed and performed in Shakespeare’s King
Lear, Gogol’s The Government Inspector and African plays Like
Amanita, Betrayal in the city, Voice of the people, echoes of silence
among others.
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