Biographies
Warren Nebe
Warren Nebe is the founder and former Head of Department of Drama for Life.
He is a HPCSA and NADT registered drama therapist, a psychodramatist, an accredited Listening Hour Guide and Trainer, a Playback Practitioner, a Theatre of the Oppressed Practitioner, a Fulbright Scholar and Salzburg Global Fellow. Warren, has been responsible for the facilitation of the development and implementation of the extensive postgraduate programme for Drama for Life.
Warren’s primary research focus has been on the development of a progressive ‘living pedagogy’ at Drama for Life, a critical reflexive praxis embedded in a human rights and social justice discourse for the Applied Arts, Arts Therapies and Arts Research in Africa in the 21st century.
Warren has both supported and, at times, curated the annual international Drama for Life Conference and Festival since inception in 2008. He was awarded the Vice-Chancellor Award for Transformation (Individual) in 2013, and the Drama for Life Staff were awarded the Vice-Chancellor Award for Academic Citizenship (Team) for 2014.
The department’s intersectional and interdisciplinary academic programme is rooted in theory, practice, town halls, visual and performing arts, arts in health, a recovery programme, modelling of ‘best practice’ research projects, and on-going fieldwork, placements and internships in schools, community centres, arts centres, clinics, hospitals, rehabilitation centres, orphanages, and homes for the elderly.