Wanjiku Mwawuganga is a Kenyan performing artist based in Nairobi. She is the first born daughter of an accountant and business woman. She was drawn to performance through primary school drama clubs and national festivals. Wanjiku found safety and release in the characters she played, a way to deconstruct complex thoughts and ideas and finally found a way to connect with people despite her social anxiety; art. She later pursued Theatre Arts and Film Studies at Kenyatta University in Kenya. Her solo performance ROOTS — tracing mother-daughter relationships across five generations — toured festivals across Europe, East and South Africa, and coastal Kenya, and was a finalist for the HEVA HII Stage Tour Grant 2024. She is an alumna of the DAH Theatre International Summer School (2019), a scholarship holder of Zürcher Theater Spektakel’s Watch and Talk (2020) and TheaterFestival Basel’s Festival LAB XChange (2024), and a member of the 4th cohort of Georgetown Global Lab Fellows (2024–2026). Wanjiku is inspired by works that push boundaries and embrace vulnerability and self excavation.