Rwandan director, actor, and playwright, born in 1969. Winner of the first prize in drama from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Liège, he was initially trained in performing arts by his father, Cyprien Rugamba, a poet, choreographer, composer, and creator of the National Museum of Rwanda. In 1999, he co-wrote the epic play Rwanda 94 and in 2001, he founded the Urwintore Workshops, a creative space in Kigali. His 2005 adaptation of Peter Weiss’ play The Investigation, which focused on the Auschwitz trials and was entirely performed by Rwandan actors, toured worldwide and received both public and critical acclaim.

His epic play Bloody Niggers, which explores mass violence with echoes of Aimé Césaire’s work, toured Europe and Africa starting in 2007. He directed Umurinzi, an opera performed at the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsis in 2019 in Kigali, and assisted Abderahmane Sissako in directing The Flight of the Boli at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 2020, with music by Damon Albarn. In 2021, he directed and presented Liberty, I Would Have Inhabited Your Dream Until the Last Night by Felwine Sarr at the Avignon Festival, and in 2022, he staged his latest play, Supreme Remnants, which caused a sensation at the Dakar Biennial. In March 2024, Dorcy Rugamba will publish Hewa Rwanda, Letter to the Absent, a narrative written two decades apart, by Jean-Claude Lattès.