Andile Kosi (Jesus)
Kosi comes from King Williams Town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Inspired by his classmates, he joined the choir Unlimited Voices in 1991 and fell in love with opera. Kosi was working as an office clerk when he went for auditions for DDK in 2000. His stage roles include Jesus/God in DDK’s hugely successful stage production Yimimangaliso The Mysteries, Crook-fingered Jack in Ibali looTsotsi The Beggars Opera andKaya in IKumkanikazi yeKhephu The Snow Queen. Kosi played Sergeant Kosi in U-Carmen eKhayelitsha.

Andries Mbali (Satan)
A native of Johannesburg, Andries’s love of the performing arts lead him to join the Sibikwa theatre in 1995 where he obtained his Diploma. He has performed in various theatres in South Africa, Swaziland, Botwana, the United States, and Germany. In 2000 he joined DDK.  His roles include Lucifer in Yimimangaliso The Mysteries, Lilias Pastia in Carmen, Jack Filch in Ibali looTsotsi The Beggars Opera, Action in West Side Story, Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show and Bra Nkomo in the film U-Carmen eKhayelitsha. Mbali has facilitated workshops nationally and internationally and was involved in a cultural exchange program with a theatre company from Amsterdam, the De Nuwe Theatre.

Pauline Malefane, Associate producer/co-writer/translator,(Mary)
Malefane grew up in Khayelitsha. She sang in local choirs from an early age and was first exposed to the world of opera during a high school outing to Don Giovanni. Pauline enrolled at the University of Cape Town College of Music to study a Performers Diploma in Music.
Malefane joined Dimpho Di Kopane in 2000 where she was selected to perform the lead role in Bizet’s opera U-Carmen. Replacing the current lead with only three weeks to prepare the role, Malefane rose to the occasion and went on to achieve tremendous international acclaim, being described in The Observer, London as “the Carmen by which others should be measured”.