Achiro Patricia Olwoch

Achiro Patricia Olwoch is an award-winning writer, director, producer, and workshop leader for TMI Project. She is from Gulu in Northern Uganda, currently living in exile in New York. She is a Visiting Scholar and Instructor at Vassar College, where she teaches courses in playwriting and postcolonial drama. A former Weiss International Fellow and Scholar at Risk at Barnard College (2023–2024), Achiro has received numerous accolades for her groundbreaking work which bridges history and contemporary struggle. Her play The Survival premiered at Lincoln Center in June 2022 with the National Queer Theatre and returned for a full production in June 2024 at the Perelman Performing Arts Center.

She serves as the African Representative on the Women Playwrights International Management Committee, is a member of the National Queer Theatre’s Artistic Collective, and mentors young writers through Girls Write Now.