Misha Maseka is an award-winning artist and researcher born in Eswatini to Zambian parents, growing up in South Africa, Australia and living between Canada and the UK.

Starting her career in opera and theatre, studying under Dr Janet Youngdahl at the University of Lethbridge led to her performing across Canada and Germany. Simultaneously, writing and performing poetry throughout her youth and undergrad opened up the opportunity for film. Since 2018, the majority of her work has been as a producer, director and writer for commercials, documentaries, narrative films and television series while completing her master’s degree in Digital Direction at the Royal College of Art in London.

With her 2021 founded production company, Village Girls, Misha seeks to highlight the significance of the small and unknown histories, legacies and present stories of the global south — particularly central Africa, through different artistic mediums spanning from film to innovative immersive technologies like VR, ER and AR, while remaining close to the processes and foundations of theatre and live performance structures.

Music is her longest practice, and she still composes and performs under the name Lemba. She is pursuing research in the practices and preserving African creative performance in the 19th and 20th centuries.