Born in the UK to Ugandan parents, Leah Muwanga-Magoye is a storyteller born in England to Ugandan parents. Her nomadic upbringing in Kenya, Namibia and the UK influenced her interest in the power of mythical narratives to reclaim forfeited spaces, remember forgotten truths and repair fragmented identities.
As a platform agnostic creative she has worked across theatre, film, television, animation and interactive fiction. She completed a MA (Hons) in Classics at the University of Edinburgh where she was awarded the Hardie Prize for her dissertation ‘The Mythic and Tragic Visions of Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy’. She subsequently attended Central Saint Martins completing an MA in Dramatic Writing. As well as writing and directing film, theatre and animation, she has taught as an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and worked as Narrative Designer for interactive scripted projects in development at Netflix. Her most recent work exhibited at Chiswick House, a site-responsive sound installation consisting of a collection of mythical tales, was entitled ‘we shed as we pick up – Tales of the Named and the Nameless, 2023'’
In 2019 she was awarded Arts Council funding to develop a theatrical work and selected to be in the 2022 cohort of Games London's Ensemble showcase exhibited across the UK, including Trafalgar Square. She has also been profiled for the Screen Industries Growth Network and spoken on panels for the Writer's Guild, Radio 1 and Film London.
