Néka Da Costa is a disabled, queer theatre-maker and lecturer at the Theatre and Performance department at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has an MA in Text and Performance from Birkbeck University of London and RADA, and is currently studying towards a PhD. Neka is interested in the dynamics of theatre, inclusion and access in all its permutations: economic access, physical access, linguistic access and access in terms of representation, politics and power dynamics. She is also a professional theatre director whose recent work has centred around creating original narratives for Theatre for Young People.