Mimi at the RSC

She graduated from RWCMD and won the Spotlight Prize less than a year ago, and now Mimi Ndiweni is about to open at the RSC in a season of new plays.

Mimi is one of six actors in Midsummer Mischief, a festival of world premieres led by the RSC’s Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman. Four brand-new plays have been commissioned by four female writers (including award-winning playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker), inspired by the statement: ‘Well behaved women seldom make history’.

The plays will be performed in repertoire by the same cast in The Other Place, a purpose-built studio theatre on the stage of The Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

And Mimi is not the only recent RWCMD graduate to be involved with the Midsummer Mischief. Theatre design graduate Madeleine Girling – who is an Assistant Designer at the RSC and was one of the winners of the 2013 Linbury Prize – also worked on the project.

This is the second time Mimi has worked with the RSC. Earlier this year, she played Lucentio in the company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew for young people – alongside fellow RWCMD graduates and RSC actors Anjana Vasan and Katy Stephens.