Judith Adong

Judith Adong is a Ugandan playwright and filmmaker. Adong is a graduate of the arts from Makerere University, where she lectured at the Department of Performing Arts and Film. In July 2011, she was the only African writer among 10 international writers to attend the Royal Court Theatre playwrights' residency, where she developed her play Just Me, You and the Silence, which featured at the New Black Fest in October 2011. Quotes Is it worth it for society to lose that value when society asks for that person’s silence? Illinois State University interview, 2018. The play is not about a belief in God or religion. Illinois State University interview, 2018. The plays are set in Uganda, but for me, the stories hold a universality that can speak to issues throughout the world. Illinois State University interview, 2018. I write about things in my society that I question. Daily Monitor, 2013. But, I am always minding my own business when these societal diseases find and hit me huge that I have no cure but to write about them. Daily Monitor, 2013. External links Category:Living people Category:1977 births Category:Playwrights Category:Women authors from Uganda Category:Makerere University alumni