Mark Fleishman is Professor of Theatre at the University of Cape Town. He is also a co-artistic director of Magnet Theatre, an independent theatre company established in 1987. He has created and directed many performance works for the company over the past 37 years, and is involved in development projects in urban townships and rural communities using theatre as a tool for social justice and transformation. He is currently principal investigator on the project Re-imagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
His articles have appeared in the South African Theatre Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review, and Theatre Research International as well as in numerous edited collections. He is editor of Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa: Cape of Flows (2015), and three recent special issues of the South African Theatre Journal, two on Translation & Performance (2019 & 2020) that emerged from a multi-year collaboration with colleagues in the Netherlands and India, and one on Reimagining a Classic: Reflections on Antigone (not quite/quiet) (2023).