Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom

Grootboom had written a play about polygamy titled "What a wonderful world". Grootboom's writing career was beginning to pick-up. He met the likes of Aubrey Sekhabi, playwright and television producer. Sekhabi was impressed with his work and invited Grootboom to write a play named Enigma. In 2002, Grootboom took up the position of Development Officer at the South African State Theatre, where he was required to work with plays from community groups and actors that needed development. He began his career as a writer for stage and television. His stage credits include Enigma [1997]; not with my gun [co-written with Aubrey Sekhabi]; Cards, an explicit and nude stage play [2001] and several other plays, one of which he co-wrote with Presley Chweneyegae, lead actor in the Oscar winning film "Tsotsi".

Grootboom's inspiration came from watching films that were out of the ordinary, explicit and endogenous. He was attracted to the extraordinary things that the human body could do. For example "Foreplay" one of his well known theatrical plays, dealt with hypocrisy. It is exploring such themes that makes Grootboom the most controversial playwright in South Africa, a society still largely "conservative".

His television engagements include Isidingo. a SABC3 soap opera [2000], Suburban bliss [1995], Soul city, an SABC1 health drama and Mponeng, SABC2's sitcom.