Tumi Morake - Comedian and MC - Johannesburg
 

Tumi Morake was born in the Free State. She is currently a Jo’burg resident who came to Gauteng in 2000 to seek gold. She studied Drama at Wits University and started working in the industry at Arepp Theatre for Life, a touring educational theatre company, working in Free State, North West and Gauteng. She has worked as a puppeteer, actress and facilitator. 

After two years of giving back to her community, she came back to Johannesburg, attending whatever writing workshops she could, and working on her stand-up routines. She entered the comedy scene officially in July 2005 with Parker Leisure Management and performs regular stand-up gigs in Johannesburg and Pretoria.

Tumi Morake

A performer at heart, her acting career began in 2004. On discovering a knack for comedy, she branched off onto the stand-up comedy circuit in 2007.

Tumi has performed on stage, on television and in films; in English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana and IsiZulu all over South Africa. Her credits include supporting roles in the international award-winning films Jerusalema, Skin and Jo'burg. On television, she played the lead roles of Millicent in SABC1’s hit sitcom Izoso Connection and Persistence in SABC 2's Askies. She also played cameo roles on Justice For All and the SAFTA award-winning City Ses’la.

Tumi Morake
 

Tumi has managed to keep a firm footing as one of a handful of successful female comedians on the corporate and commercial scene. She has shared the stage with comics such as David Kau, Marc Lottering, Stuart Taylor and Chris Forrest; at festivals such as Whack Jobs, Heavyweights Comedy Jam, Blacks Only, King Size Comedy, Have a Heart, Just Because Comedy Festival, The Tshwane Comedy Festival, The Lifestyle SA Festival and Old Mutual Comedy Encounters. In 2007, she MC’d at the 8th annual Woodstock Festival.

Tumi Morake

Also a writer and burgeoning theatre director, Tumi has directed educational theatre for Arrep Theatre For Life, and written on a handful of television dramas and sitcoms. In 2006 Getting It On, a short film she co-wrote, won an award for Best Short Cut at the prestigious VUKA! Awards.

Tumi loves walks on the beach, which doesn’t help her because she is based in the concrete jungle that is Johannesburg!

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Tumi Morake - Comedian and MC - Johannesburg