Achiro Patricia Olwoch is an award-winning writer, director, and producer from Gulu in Northern Uganda, currently living in exile in New York. She is a Visiting Scholar and Instructor at Vassar College, teaching 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, including the TV series Coffee Shop and Yat Madit, and acclaimed short films like The Surrogate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her creative work bridges history and contemporary struggle. She recently completed three manuscripts left unfinished by her late father and is now working on a memoir about her life from exile to war and a novel about a former child soldier navigating Uganda\u2019s anti-homosexuality law. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, Pen America, and Adi Magazine. Her play, The Survival, premiered at Lincoln Center (2022) and returned for a full production at the Perelman Performing Arts Center (2024). She serves as the African Representative on the Women Playwrights International Management Committee and is a member of the National Queer Theatre’s Artistic Collective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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