Angelique Mouyis

Biography

Angelique Mouyis graduated with a Master’s degree in Music Composition at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Music Composition at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts under Dr. Robert Aldridge. Angelique is the recipient of a Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) post-graduate studies scholarship as well as the prestigious Ernest Oppenheimer Overseas Scholarship for the Performing Arts. Her opera ‘Bessie: The Blue-Eyed Xhosa’(written with Mkhululi Z. Mabija) was produced by Cape Town Opera at the Artscape Theatre in 2015 as part of their Four:30 – Operas Made in South Africa series. Other productions include Forget this City (Enthuse Theatre, New York, NY) and The Boy Who Never Grows Up (Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, New York, NY). She is the author of Mikis Theodorakis: Finding Greece in his Music (Kerkyra Publishers, 2010).