Kambi Gathesha – 2026 KSA
Director
Kambi Gathesha is a Queens based director/choreographer and writer/actor. Originally from
Nairobi, Kenya, Kambi was raised both in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Rockville, Maryland. As a
director/choreographer, he has presented his dance and theatrical work at APAP, Battery Part
Downtown Dance Festival, PMT, City Center, and the Spoleto Festival. As an actor, he has
appeared off broadway at the Classical Theatre of Harlem; National Black Theater; ART/New
York; Playwrights Horizons; The Public. Regionally, he has worked at Baltimore CenterStage,
Roundhouse Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, American Repertory Theatre, and Repertory theatre of
St. Louis. He is the 2019 recipient of the Jerome Robbins Foundation’s Project Springboard
Fellowship for dance-driven musical theatre where he began developing his original musical A
Nation Grooves: A People’s History of Hip-Hop. Kambi is also an historian whose research
examines the dance and performance histories of Africa and the Diaspora.