Spoken Word Performance
Open Mic · 25 November 2019 · Punchline Comedy Club, Detroit MI
Performed the spoken word piece "I Am...I Am From" — a meditation on Botswana roots, growing up one of nine children, and the places that made me.
Elder Gaseitsewe in Meet The Bensons
Stanford African Cultural Show · 1 June 2019 · Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford CA
Played Elder Gaseitsewe, village elder from Botswana, in the Stanford African Students Association's original production Meet The Bensons. Fifteen minutes of fame, well spent.
Photos courtesy Ryan Jae and @nicholasphotography48
Inaugural Stand-Up Comedy Performance
Open Mic · 23 May 2019 · CoHo, Stanford CA
I consider myself a storyteller - even my purpose in life revolves around enabling others to create and tell their own stories. Most of my story telling happens via the written form. With this performance, I was looking to continue what I started earlier in the year by sharing my stories on stage. But more importantly, I wanted to experiment with a new medium: comedy. I chose comedy because in general people from back home think I am funny enough and yet here in the US people miss over 90% of my humor. I was curious to see if they will get it if I intentionally package my presentation as something to make people laugh. They laughed enough for a first time standup performance: most likely at me than at my jokes. My performance commented on the importance of informed consent in interpersonal exchanges, the recent college admissions scandal, and served as a reflection on being an international student at Stanford over the past 4 years. I will try again!
Spoken Word Performance
Open Mic · 16 March 2019 · CoHo, Stanford CA
Performed three pieces: On A Bench Under The Moon, Giving Shame A Voice, and Beside You.
Read Book Excerpt
Open Mic · 3 March 2019 · CoHo, Stanford CA
Read a section from my memoir — the chapter on my mother's illness. The first time I read it aloud to strangers.
Rap Performance
UWC Costa Rica · Class of 2014 Farewell Pool Day
Accompanied by BCS who sang the chorus and with Eminem's When I'm Gone beat in the background, I spit a few bars to bid my second years farewell in Costa Rica. When I was a teenager, I was known as G-RaM. I considered myself a rap icon in Kanye.
Doc in West Side Story
2014 · United World College of Costa Rica, Santa Ana, Costa Rica
Played Doc in the UWC Costa Rica production of West Side Story.
