Mike van Graan serves on the Steering Committee of the African Cultural Policy Network and is an award-winning playwright with 34 plays under his belt. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, his creative work generally explores the post-apartheid condition as well as international themes like migration and refugees. His brief at the University of Pretoria where he was an artist-in-residence in 2019 was to write a play on the Sustainable Development Goals, which has now been prescribed by some schools for study in 2021.
