Ndanu Mutisya is a singer, musician, actor, producer, writer, and designer based in New York City. She is passionate about music, writing, film, and collaborative theater-making, and is a musical theater lover. She started her journey at age three when she started piano lessons and was classically trained for over a decade. She learned to read and write music and is a self-taught singer. During her sophomore year of high school, she auditioned for the school musical, Hairspray, and fell in love with acting and theater. ​
Ndanu graduated from Hamilton College in 2021 with a dual Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Economics (WOW! It's an interesting combination). At Hamilton, she studied acting and movement techniques (Meisner and Uta Hagen), along with devising theatre and theatre production. She was also in numerous mainstage performances. When she was not on stage, she worked in the costume shop for various shows or was a teaching assistant. Not only was she an active member of the theater department, but she was also a varsity athlete (until COVID-19) and captain of the Hamilton Heat: Hip Hop Dance team. After graduation, she returned to Boston and worked at a boarding school. While she worked there, she found time to freelance as an electrician for the theatre department, where she learned more technical skills (programming, stage managing, etc).
After working a regular job for a year, she was accepted to Stella Adler's Musical Theatre Intensive where she trained in Adler's technique and attended master classes with current Broadway actors. After the intensive in 2022, she moved to NYC to pursue her career in acting, writing, and producing. She had her professional acting debut in The Color Purple at Progressive Theater in 2024. She is the producer and curator of a cabaret/variety show at the Wild Project called We're Too Talented To Be This Sad. In 2024, her play, Sorry! We're Closed! (co-written with Sammi Gainer), premiered at the New York Theater Festival, marking her writing and off-off- broadway debut.
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"If I could wake up every morning knowing that I was going to write, direct, act, sing, dance, design, or produce that day, I would be the happiest version of myself. I am just an artist trying to leave her mark on the world."
- Ndanu
