Phumzile Sitole
Phumzile Sitole is is an actress and voice over artist from Johannesburg, South Africa with an MFA in acting from Columbia University School of the Arts. Recent theater work includes Yellow Card Red Card at the New Ohio Theatre, The Comedy of Errors and Othello at Classic Stage Company, and Macbeth at The Connelly Theater. Her television credits include: Orange Is The New Black, Elementary, and The Good Fight. She played alongside Olivia Washington in the short film LostFound, which was selected for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Phumzile participates on panels and gives readings and speeches with The Aspen Institute and The Public Theatre
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Acting alumna Phumzile Sitole ’16 is cast for Tori Sampson’s If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka as Kaya.
Acting Alumna Phumzile Sitole '16 recently joined the cast of the critically-acclaimed, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Netflix show, Orange Is the New Black. According to TimesLIVE, Sitole will play Antoinetta 'Akers' Kerson in the sixth season of the popular series, which follows female inmates in a minimum-security prison. Sitole will appear in nine out of thirteen episodes.
Columbia University continues to have strong representation at prestigious film festivals this year.